Delivering OH services

摘要

Occupational health nurses practice in a wide range of situations, from single practitioners working in isolation for medium-sized private-sector businesses, to members of large multidisciplinary teams in the NHS, major companies and commercial OH providers. Others are self-employed and contract their services to several client organisations. The experiences of OH nurses are inevitably diverse and research carried out by the At Work Partnership for the RCN Society of Occupational Health Nursing sheds light on the different situations and challenges faced by nurses. It also provides a comprehensive insight, for the first time, of the levels of OH services provided by organisations across all employment sectors, the value placed on those services by the OH nurses themselves, the different roles OH nurses have in delivering those services and nurses' own perception of their competence in performing the functions required of them.