Product Overview
An essential, state-of-the-art resource that serves as a comprehensive outline of occupational health nursing practice in a wide variety of setting. Based on the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses' Standards of Professional Occupational Health Nursing Practice, it helps readers develop a solid understanding of the many dimensions of professional practice. Features: * Presents content in three broad sections: foundations of occupational health nursing practice, strategies and approaches to the practice, and methods of advancing professionalism -- in an easy-to-follow outline format. * Discusses the Various sciences that support this specialty such as public health, social and behavioral health, and occupational health sciences, as well as legal and ethical issues and principles of administration. * Describes specific worker populations and the issues affecting their health and safety, with supportive and explanatory data and implications for practice. These also serve as prototypes for examining other worker populations. * Explore the links of legal, ethical, economic, political, and business issues to worker health and safety -- essential information that can profoundly affect practice. * Cover the processes involved in the development and implementation of comprehensive occupational safety and health programs. * Provides specific examples of programs which are often needed in occupational settings such as Hearing Conservation and International Travel. These serve as guides for the development of such programs, and as templates for other types of programs.
