2nd Edition
Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing A Guide for Practitioners
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.
Dedication
Contents:
Contributors
Foreword by Professor Diana Kloss MBE
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Introduction to Occupational Health Nursing – Greta Thornbory & Susanna Everton
2. Public Health – Kate Kyne
3. Leadership – Christina Butterworth
4. Health promotion and Health Protection – Siân Hogg
5. Health Surveillance – Susanna Everton
6. Health assessment, case management and rehabilitation – Lorraine Anderson-Cole, Susanna Everton, Sarah Mogford , Diane Romano-Woodward and Greta Thornbory
7. Mental Health – Anna Harrington, Libby Morley & Glyn Morris
8. Management of OH services – Andy Phillips
9. Epidemiology and research – Diane Romano-Woodward
10. Quality assurance and auditing – Sarah Mogford & Lucy Kenyon
Appendix: Resources – Teresa Harrison & Jeremy Smith
Biography
Greta Thornbory is an occupational health care professional and a former consulting editor for Occupational Health.
Susanna Everton is an occupational health nurse adviser and chartered safety practitioner. She is currently in clinical practice and was formerly the Vice President of the Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners.