Leadership in Occupational Health Nursing
Leadership in an occupational health (OH) context is defined as the ability to positively influence the working populations’ health and well-being while adapting to the ever-changing needs of the workplace
Winter 2022
Occupational Health for the multi-disciplinary professional: Keeping up to date with the guidance.
In 2021 the HSE issued guidance to employers on buying cost-effective and competent support from Occupational Health (OH) professionals. This does not yet embrace the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that I have seen emerging over the last 6 years as professional educator for the NHS National Performance Advisory Group, and subsequently being truly embedded in the wake of COVID-19. I am a passionate advocate for the opportunities afforded to us by the skills and approaches exemplified by our MDT colleagues.
The Occupational Health workforce – a crisis of capability?
For some years the Occupational Health (OH) Workforce has been slowly dying. Dr Yogarajah published the 2019 SOM report The Future of the OH Workforce, detailing a reduction in the OH Workforce. Not very auspicious, considering that 4 years before, in 2016, an All-party parliamentary group paper, called the diminishing Occupational Medical workforce, “a crisis …
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Hearing loss or sight loss needn’t mean job loss
Dan Williams, Founding Director of workplace accessibility and inclusion experts Visualise Training and Consultancy, looks at how challenges faced by employees with hearing loss or visual impairment can be overcome.
Using clinical and lived experience to design a unique web application for people with disabilities. The Empowerment Passport™
The Empowerment Passport™ is a secure web application, built to facilitate communication between an individual with a disability or long-term health condition and their line manager or tutor. It can be used in both education and employment and can act as a bridge to communicate adjustment needs in different environments and during transition e.g., between …
COPD and errors in spirometry technique
Main features in COPD? Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD is an umbrella term for obstructive lung diseases characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath, chronic cough, and increased sputum production) due to damage of the airways (bronchitis, bronchiolitis) and/or alveoli (emphysema) which cause persistent, often progressive, airflow obstruction that is not reversible.1 …
Financial and Psychological Sector Specific Support
Now, more than ever, employees may need additional psychological or financial support. It’s not our role to fix individuals problems but we can certainly signpost. Employees can access sector-specific support via the organisations below. Not all provide a 24-hour service, and some provide financial support via grants to those who are eligible. Phone numbers are …
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