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Interest of Major Corporations in Expanded Practice of Occupational Health Nurses
Author(s) -
Lusk Sally L.,
Disch Joanne M.,
Barkauskas Violet H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770110303
Subject(s) - corporation , nursing , sample (material) , health care , business , occupational health nursing , family medicine , medicine , public health , health education , political science , finance , chemistry , chromatography , law
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the interest by executives of major corporations in having occupational health nurses engage in more advanced activities, and to ascertain the available support for advanced educational preparation for nurses. A questionnaire was sent to a systematic sample of 404 of the 808 executives of the Forbes 500 corporations with a 57% return rate. Over 90% of the corporations with health care departments employed registered nurses. Functions nurses currently performed varied by size of the corporation and by type of industry. Activities corporations would like nurses to perform were more advanced, such as conducting research, analyzing trends, and developing special health programs.