Occupational health nursing and occupational stress.

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• Personal Author:
  Klutas EM
• Description:
  The expanded role of the occupational health nurse in alleviating occupational stress is presented, arguing that occupational health nurses must concern themselves with occupational stressors of all kinds. Increasingly, the occupational health nurse is assuming more independent roles in case finding, program planning and implementation, and in assisting workers to cope with an ever widening scope of problems that affect health and productivity. Nurses today have become skilled in taking certain environmental hazard measurements, such as noise levels and air samples. Through health education and counseling the nurse can encourage employees to take indicated medical care or other health protection actions. Nurses are particularly instrumental in mental health problems, for example, by providing counseling and referral for alcohol and drug abuse control. For employees under treatment for mental illness, the nurse must coordinate between the psychiatrist and the supervisor. The occupational health nurses must also remember that there are psychological stressors associated with their duties. These pressures usually result from individual physicians, management and workers.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Diagnosis Lung Lung Diseases Occupational Health Radiography Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Contract-210-77-0041 Health-care-personnel Medical-care Medical-personnel NIOSH-Publication Occupational-health Occupational-medicine Occupational-psychology Psychological-factors
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  101-107
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00086199
• Citation:
  Reducing occupational stress: proceedings of a conference May 10-12, 1977, Westchester Division, New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center. McLean A; Black B; Colligan, Michael J., eds. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 78-140, 1978 Apr; :101-107
• Editor(s):
  McLean A ; Black B ; Colligan, Michael J.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1d5c76f49239274ca78b7e97db7df2f78fcec1dcab9ac732812da005686a188b5fc1a5c085851232842f7112d6bd665dd94b2ef3ed6ba4e5d08d658f57c4cfda
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178905/cdc_178905_DS1.pdf
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