| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing- Front Cover -- Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Foreword by Professor Diana Kloss MBE -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: An introduction to occupational health nursing -- The historical aspects of OH and OH nursing -- The international perspectives of OH -- OH in the twenty-first century -- OH nursing today -- The Safe Effective Quality OH Service -- Confidentiality -- Competence |
|
Continuing professional development and revalidationConclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Public health -- Introduction -- What is public health? -- The developing role of public health -- Inequalities in health -- What is wellbeing? -- The role of the occupational health nurse in the public health agenda -- Specific programmes to support the public health agenda -- Mental wellbeing -- Physical wellbeing -- Healthy eating and obesity -- Smoking -- Alcohol and drugs -- The ageing workforce -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Leadership |
|
Leadership definitionLeadership theories and models -- Leadership styles and models -- Developing organisational strategy -- Team dynamics -- Stakeholder engagement -- The leader, team and organisation -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 4: Health promotion and wellbeing -- Introduction -- Health promotion models -- Behaviour change theories -- The role of the OH nurse -- Ethical considerations -- Health promotion and the workplace setting -- Health needs analysis -- Evaluation -- Wellbeing -- Conclusion -- Further reading |
|
Understanding changes in the UK labour marketEffective communication between OH, line managers and HR -- Basic requirements for OH assessment -- Functional assessment -- Absence management -- Measuring and recording absence -- Factors that affect sickness absence -- Absence management: policies and procedures -- Reporting absence -- The Psychosocial Flag system -- The fit note -- Return-to-work interviews -- Long-term absence -- OH referral -- Case management -- Access to work -- Vocational rehabilitation -- Supporting employees with disabilities |
| Summary |
This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing. Concerned with the health of people at work and the effects of work on health and health on work, this distinctive branch of public health nursing requires specific knowledge and skills.?Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing includes chapters on: public health, leadership, health promotion and protection, health surveillance, health assessment, case management and rehabilitation, mental health, management of occupational health services and epidemiology and research, quality assurance and audit. The second edition includes additional content on health risk assessment and the Fit for Work Service, occupational health management systems, psychosocial factors and mindfulness, among other things.?Discussion of ethical issues is woven throughout and each chapter is written by an experienced occupational health nurse practitioner and includes features such as case studies, activities, learning objectives and chapter summaries. This book can be used as a text by those undertaking specialist community public health nursing qualifications and as an important resource for all nurses working in occupational health practice |
| Subject |
MEDICAL -- Occupational & Industrial Medicine.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Everton, Susanna
|
| ISBN |
9781315203409 |
|
1315203405 |
|
