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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
1. Clinician
The duties of the OHN may include first aid and emergency response,
along with the administration of medications and treatments as
prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized
under the laws of his or her respective state of practice. The role of the
OHN may also include the supervision and teaching of other personnel
in the performance of any of the above acts.
2. Health promotion specialist
As a health promotion specialist, the occupational health nurse (OHN)
participates in the development and management of a multidimensional,
broad-range health- promotion program that supports the business
objectives of the organization. Health promotion and illness and injury
prevention is a function that the OHN performs along a continuum for
the worker population.
3. Manager
In some cases, the occupational health nurse may act as the director of
the multidisciplinary occupational health team, coordinating and
planning the work of other occupational health professionals. The
occupational health nurse supervisor may have management duty
regarding the entire of the occupational health team or the nursing staff
or management responsibility for particular programs.
4. Coordinator
The occupational health nurse acting as a coordinator can draw together
all of the professionals involved in the occupational health team. In
numerous occurrences the nurse will be the main individual in the team
who is permanently employed by the enterprise or present on a specific
site. Subsequently, they have an extraordinary position and have access
to important data that can be used to shape and direct the occupational
health program.
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