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- Title
Expert Occupational Health Nurse Actions Taken to Understand Purposes Important to Them in Their Practice.
- Authors
Junko Hatanaka; Michiyo Hatanaka; Masako Takasaki
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to uncover expert occupational health nurse actions taken to understand purposes important to them in occupational health nursing practice. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 expert occupational health nurses. The results were analyzed using the qualitative synthesis method. Results: The following seven elements were extracted: "Realize living and working as oneself while restricting within work and health", "Stay engaged so that one is physically and mentally healthy and approaches retirement positively", "Offer suggestions for activities at an appropriate time by assessing the state of affairs within the corporate organization and identifying key personnel", "Develop human resources and accumulate phased activities toward self-sustaining occupational health activities by the corporate organization", "Coordinate opinions among employees/managers and integrate support activities for employees with those for the employer", "Build relationships of trust by staying engaged as a professional from an impartial standpoint", and "Continue learning from experience and gain expert knowledge". Conclusion: Activities of occupational health nurses were conducted by building relationships of trust and making preformed study so that workers can live and work for themselves and the corporate organization can be self-sustaining and promoting occupational health activities.
- Subjects
NURSES' attitudes; RESEARCH methodology; SELF-perception; INTERVIEWING; NURSING practice; QUALITATIVE research; NURSES; EXPERTISE; INTERPERSONAL relations; OCCUPATIONAL health services; TRUST
- Publication
Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science, 2020, Vol 40, p5
- ISSN
0287-5330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5630/jans.40.5