In addition to its general role, WHO's Regional Office for Europe has published a document specifically dedicated to occupational health nursing: The Role of the Occupational Health Nurse in Workplace Health Management (Copenhagen, 2001). While recognizing the wide variation that exists in occupational health nursing practice between different countries, this document reflects the standards already achieved in those countries where the profession is at its most advanced.
The report describes the four key components of workplace health management — occupational health and safety, workplace health promotion, social and lifestyle determinants of health, and environmental health management — and sets out the many roles that occupational health nurses may fulfil within this framework, including clinician, specialist, manager, co-ordinator, adviser, health educator, counsellor and researcher.
The document was prepared by editors Stuart Whitaker and Boguslaw Baranski, based on contributions from participants at a WHO workshop held on 11–12 November 1999 in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, including Frances J.T. Baker and Julie Staun, both former Presidents of FOHNEU. It also includes, as an annex, the FOHNEU core curriculum for occupational health nursing education in Europe.
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