Support and Building about Occupational Health Nursing Activities among Medical Institutions

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24500839
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Yokkaichi Nursing and Medical Care University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuko 四日市看護医療大学, 地域研究機構 産業看護研究センター, 研究員 (60383402)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KONO Keiko 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 教授 (00225377) ; HIGASHIKAWA Kaoru 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (00340406) ; TAKAYAMA Naoko 近大姫路大学, 看護学部, 教授 (50321493) ; GOTOH Yuki 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (20309983) ; HATANAKA Junko 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (80612671) ; NAITO Masako 四日市看護医療大学・地域研究機構, 産業看護研究センター (10010084) ; HAGI Noriko 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 準教授 (30460645) ; YAMAZAKI Masato 四日市看護医療大学, 地域研究機構産業看護研究センター (70298652) ; MIZONO Luis Satomi 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 助教 (90583790) ; OYAMA Makiko 奈良学園大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (10369431) ; NAKAGAMI Katsuyuki 四日市看護医療大学, 看護学部, 講師 (20551237)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 医療機関 / 産業保健 / 産業看護活動 / 産業看護職 / 看護管理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzes questionnaires (2012-2014) on occupational health nursing activities targeting the directors of nursing departments at 2576 general hospitals which have 100 or more beds among medical institutions in Japan. The results show that 12.2% of occupational health nurses are full-time or hold multiple posts. In addition, this research confirms 15 validations as factors which promote occupational health nursing activities including understanding towards occupational health nursing activities of the hospital founder, positive attitudes and behavior of occupational health nurses, the collaborative relationship between occupational health physicians and occupational health nurses as well as the awareness of medical institutions being the subject of occupational heath nursing.

Free Research Field

産業看護