Occupational Health Nurses' Participation in Health Committee Surveyed in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Inoue, Masaiwa; Yamamoto, Shinji; Kan, Hirohiko; Tateishi, Hajime; Harada, Noriaki

doi:10.2486/indhealth.42.287

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“…Seventy-one percent of OHNs were found to take part in the committee issues in companies with part-time OHPs, which might indicate that OHNs in those companies played a role in participating the meetings instead of OHPs. A similar finding was shown also in our previous study 5) . As to whether OHNs played roles in health care support for workers after GHEs, 100% of OHNs in companies with part-time OHPs did the same while it was 90% in those with full-time OHPs.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…However, the OHNs' role could not be evaluated sufficiently because there are very few reports on present conditions of OHN activity related to GHE issues in Japan. One of the reasons for this seems to be that the role of OHN is not supported by Occupational Safety and Health law, which was also indicated in our previous study 5) . In that report, we suggested that current conditions in occupational health should be frequently reported to promote active discussions regarding helath care among occupational health-related staffs including OHNs and company managers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…According to the law, there is no regulation defining how many days per month is required for a parttime OHP to work at the company. Indeed, the frequency of working days for part-time OHPs in companies varied from 2 d per year to 2 d per week, according to our previous survey 5) . Under the present occupational health conditions, OHNs have become even more involved as key professionals in occupational health fields because they are familiar with employees' affairs and can suggest health care properly for workers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Occupational Health Nurses' Activity after General Health Examination for Workers

Inoue

2007

Ind Health

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In this study, the present condition of occupational health nurse's role after performing general health examination was surveyed. Questionnaires were mailed to 41 companies, and returned questionnaires from 24 of them were analyzed. Although general health examination results were reported to all workers individually in 100% of companies, physician's opinion regarding the examination results were obtained in 86% of companies with part-time physicians comparing with 100% of those with full-time physicians. Health care support related to the examination results were performed by 90% of occupational health nurses and 70% of physicians in companies which employed full-time physicians, but by 100% of occupational health nurses and 50% of physicians in those which employed part-time physicians. In companies with part-time physicians, 64% of occupational health nurses played roles in submitting reports to Labor Standard Inspection Office, but only 30% of occupational health nurses did it in those with full-time physicians. These results show that occupational health nurses working in companies with part-time occupational health physicians were more active in providing health care for workers after general health examination than occupational health nurses working in those with full-time occupational health physicians.

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