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Cindy Luebbering, RN, a senior health systems manager and occupational health nurse at the Cincinnati, OH-based Proctor & Gamble Company, says that her goal is to give employees information on how to get healthy, stay healthy, and how to live a full and healthy life if diagnosed with a health condition."
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Everyone agrees that health care workers should receive the influenza vaccine each year to protect themselves and their patients.
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It is notoriously difficult to convince surgeons to change their methods and tools in the operating room to improve sharps safety. But in Tennessee, intransigence is apt to lead to a citation from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Does a diabetic employee attend a lunch and learn but continue to eat an unhealthy diet? Or does an obese worker lose weight and keep it off, avoiding years of costly chronic health problems?
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You may have sent an injured employee to a specialist early on, so that he avoided additional days away from work. Or maybe you arranged for an employee on short-term disability to work remotely so she could still be productive, resulting in a two-week savings under short-term disability benefits.
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Occupational health nurses tend to be "cheerleaders" for employees with chronic conditions such as diabetes or asthma, says Judy A. Garrett, health services manager at Syngenta Crop Protection in Greensboro, NC, but the same enthusiasm should be directed to healthy workers.
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Are you hoping a particular employee will participate in a certain wellness program? "Identify their needs, then tailor everything in the program to meet their needs," advises Tracey L. Yap, RN, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati (OH)'s College of Nursing.
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Healthy People 2020, the nation's blueprint for a healthier populace, includes several occupational health goals but with very low expectations for progress.
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When emergency responders transport an incoming patient who is later found to have a potentially life-threatening disease, they need to receive prompt notification from the hospital about the exposure risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proposed a list of the diseases for which hospitals must notify the emergency medical services.
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When a diabetic employee at Pitney Bowes fills a prescription for a cholesterol-lowering statin, it will cost about $300 less annually than it did previously. This is because copayments were eliminated in 2007 for statins for all employees or beneficiaries with diabetes or vascular disease.
