Hello Jo
Bottom line is that we are misunderstood by our statutory professional body
and also by our general nursing colleagues. It is unsurprising that we are
misunderstood by others.
I view OH as delivering health initiatives in the workplace underpinned by
public health principles. We operate with groups/populations at the macro
level as well as individuals at a micro level. In order to do this we have
to understand how the organisation ticks including the potential for
workprocesses to have a negative impact on employee health. A generalist
public health practitioner may be able to comment on the former but would
have little understanding of the latter.
Anne
On 27/01/2015 15:19, "Jo Edwards" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> The Centre for Workforce Intelligence published this document last October
> "Mapping the core public health workforce" and it is available here:
>
> http://www.cfwi.org.uk/publications/mapping-the-core-public-health-workforce/@
> @publication-detail
>
> It makes interesting reading as on page 3 it defines the core public health
> workforce as:
>
> ŒAll staff engaged in public health activities who identify public health as
> being the primary part of their role.¹
> And then goes on to exclude Occupational Health Nurses.
>
> My qualification has placed me on Part 3 of the NMC register - which makes me
> a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (OH)
>
> In addition, the Public Health department in my organisation (local authority)
> is currently running with the Workplace Wellbeing Charter, here:
>
> http://www.wellbeingcharter.org.uk/index.php
>
> I'm struggling to understand the strategic thinking behind this. What
> specialist knowledge of the workplace or workforce does a Public Heath
> Practitioner have? Does anyone have any comments about this?
>
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