Occupational Health Nursing and Industrial Hygiene: A Literature Review

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LITERATURE REVIEW
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Occupational health nursing can be described as the nursing field within the nursing
discipline that mainly incorporates components helping in business health development as well
as safety programs. This nursing field also involves observing workers who have been injured
during their job and indentify the risks of harm associated with the workers when they work
onsite1. Some of the common responsibilities of the nurses working in this profession is the
management of work related disorders, disaster as well as emergency planning, assistance with
rehabilitation, coordination with that of the employee treatments as well as referrals and many
others. A nursing epidemiologist is mainly seen to investigate the different trends in various
groups as well as aggregates and therefore studies the occurrence of different disorders and
injuries. The data can very well be collected from census data, reportable disease records as well
as vital statistics. Such experts can successfully help in identification of the people as well as the
populations at high risk and thereby monitor the progress of the disorders. They also specify the
areas of health care need and determine the priorities, size and scope of programs and evaluation
of the impacts.
Industrial hygiene can be described as the science and the art that are devoted for
anticipation, prevention, recognition, evaluation as well as control of those environmental factors
of stresses that arise in or from the workplace 2. This stresses may cause different types of
1 Gomaa, Ahmed E., Loren C. Tapp, Sara E. Luckhaupt, Kelly Vanoli, Raymond Francis
Sarmiento, William M. Raudabaugh, Susan Nowlin, and Susan M. Sprigg. "Occupational
traumatic injuries among workers in health care facilities—United States, 2012–2014." MMWR.
Morbidity and mortality weekly report64, no. 15 (2015): 405.
2 Maloney, John C., Michael K. Thompson, Michael J. Oldham, Charles L. Stiff, Patrick D.
Lilly, George J. Patskan, Kenneth H. Shafer, and Mohamadi A. Sarkar. "Insights from two