scholarly journals AAOHN Member Opinions on Demonstrating Value: A Closer Look at the Findings

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Karen Mastroianni
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Nursing Services ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

An assessment was conducted to update a tool kit published by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in 1998. The original document, Success Tool for Measuring and Articulating Value, had been a respected resource. Although the AAOHN guide, Demonstrating Value, is a tool with steps and examples for demonstrating value, the intention of this article is to explore the rich data collected during the assessment process, which included interviews with occupational health nurse leaders and an AAOHN member survey. Findings were summarized including data responses compared with occupational health nurses’ tenure in the profession, size of company, job title, and clinic setting (i.e., single- vs. multi-nurse or corporate clinic). In addition, key advice from occupational health nurse leaders was summarized. Justifying services and demonstrating value were viewed by all respondents as essential to the profession as well as for ensuring the quality of occupational health nursing services. A gap was identified between more experienced occupational health nurses and those new to the field, as well as between occupational health nursing settings related to the importance of, and involvement in, demonstrating value.

scholarly journals Certified Occupational Health Nursing

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 581-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Burgel ◽  
Emily M. Wallace ◽  
Sharon Donnelly Kemerer ◽  
Margery Garbin
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

Specialty nursing certification programs, such as that administered by the American Board for Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (ABOHN), must be firmly based on current practice to maintain validity. To determine this, ABOHN performed its most recent job analysis and role delineation study between 1992 and 1994. A comprehensive survey tool was developed by ABOHN Board members, and administered to all 3,805 certified occupational health nurses in practice at the time of the study. With a final return rate of 42.7%, the results were believed to be representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to practice occupational health nursing in the United States at the proficient level of practice. The results of the study formed the basis for the ABOHN test blueprints and the creation of two credentials for occupational health nurses: the Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) and the Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist (COHN-S).

scholarly journals Starting a Business as a Nurse Consultant

AAOHN Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Childre ◽  
Elaine M. Papp
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Nurse Consultant ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing ◽  
Starting A Business

This is the first of two continuing education (CE) articles for occupational health nurses interested in starting their own business. Both articles build on the January 1997 focused issue with four CE articles dedicated to consulting in occupational health nursing practice. In this issue, Papp explores practical issues and poses questions beginning occupational health nurse consultants must confront prior to starting a business. Rainer's article, scheduled for the April 2000 issue of the AAOHN Journal, focuses on managing financial resources effectively to sustain a profitable business. Businesses are changing continually in response to a highly competitive marketplace. As a result, occupational health nurses continue to be challenged both clinically and managerially to demonstrate value whether they work within the organization or external to it. This two part series encourages occupational health nurses to examine options for adding value from an entrepreneurial perspective.

scholarly journals Credentialing

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Kay Olson ◽  
Brian Verrall ◽  
Ann Marie Lundvall
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
American Association ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Final Article ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) promotes occupational health nursing by participating in national and state deliberations on credentialing issues. In 1995, AAOHN established the Credentialing Ad Hoc Committee to examine the impact of credentialing on occupational health nursing practice. As one effort by this Committee to clarify credentialing and the issues affecting the occupational health nurse, a series of three articles will appear in AAOHN Journal. This article defines credentialing and describes some of the issues affecting occupational health nursing. The second article will be based on the 1997 American Occupational Health Conference, Catherine Dempsey lecture elaborating on the future of credentialing in occupational health nursing. The final article will present the results of a national project conducted in 1996 asking AAOHN members for input in determining levels of competency in occupational health nursing practice.

Who We are — What We Do

1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 20-20
Author(s):  
June Frisk
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Professional Person ◽  
Professional Contact ◽  
Professional Isolation ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

The occupational health nurse is often the only full-time health worker in her place of employment. Compared to nurses in other fields, she is in the greatest danger of professional isolation. The hospital nurse, for example, is in daily contact with other professional workers, nurses, physicians, and technicians. Her co-workers talk her own language; she learns from them and keeps abreast of new developments in her specialty. On the other hand, most of the co-workers of the occupational health nurse are lay people and not professionally concerned with health problems or nursing. Any professional person needs the knowledge, stimulation and critical appraisal of other workers in her field. This need for professional contact is the principal reason for the existence of the American Association of Industrial Nurses. AAIN was founded in 1942 as the national specialty organization for occupational health nurses. It publishes material on occupational health nursing and provides opportunities for education and contact with others in this field. Through its educational programs, publications and guides, AAIN is constantly striving to improve the services and standards of occupational health nursing. It believes that improving the services which occupational health nurses can give is the best way of ensuring greater rewards and economic security to them. This is a basic philosophy of AAIN.

scholarly journals On-Site Occupational Health Nursing Services

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gestur Davidson ◽  
Anne Widtfeldt ◽  
Jean Bey
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Employee Relations ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Nursing Services ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

Part I of this article describes a quantitative assessment model that was developed to provide useful information to a large corporation about the benefits and costs of an on-site occupational health nursing program. The large number and complex nature of the effects of such programs both complicate this task and restrict the comprehensiveness of its assessment. Part I focuses on estimating the net cost savings arising from the direct substitution of on-site for off-site provided occupational health nursing services. The six factors comprising this assessment model are identified. How these quantitative factors might be estimated in practical applications of this model is discussed, and cost effective approaches to this estimation task are suggested. The on-site provision of occupational health nursing services clearly continues to be an issue of interest to large corporations concerned with cost containment, productivity, and good employee relations. The model described in this article is restricted to measurable, short term benefits. However, the careful measurement of these benefits and costs can usefully inform management decision making until more comprehensive, longer term assessment models can be empirically implemented.

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