Competencies and Training Strategies for Occupational Health Nurses : Reconstruction of Academic/Practical/Educational Bases by Adding Knowledge of Occupational Health Field

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25293474
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: NISHIKIDO Noriko 東海大学, 健康科学部, 教授 (10172644)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 三橋 祐子 東海大学, 健康科学部, 講師 (10580813) ; 島本 さと子 東海大学, 健康科学部, 助教 (10759179) ; 掛本 知里 東京有明医療大学, 看護学部, 教授 (60254562) ; 白石 知子 中部大学, 生命健康科学部, 教授 (60275154) ; 山崎 恭子 東海大学, 健康科学部, 准教授 (70347251)
• Research Collaborator: ISHIKAWA Mako 東海大学, 健康科学部, 研究技術員 ; SAITO Tomoko 東海大学, 健康科学研究科, 大学院生 ; OKAHISA Jun 東海大学, 健康科学研究科, 大学院生 ; KASUGA Miho 東海大学, 健康科学研究科, 大学院生
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: コンピテンシー / 産業保健師 / 保健事業展開 / 行政保健師 / 比較・統合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to clarify the competencies necessary for occupational health nurses (OHNs) such as knowledge, skills and behavioral patterns. We intended to get suggestions of future OHNs’ training strategy and to compare our results with known results of competencies for community health nurses. We have revealed OHNs’ competencies for ‘workplace visit’ or ‘improvement of psychosocial work environment’, as well as competencies to conduct and manage health services following the PDCA cycle by interview survey to expert nurses. Moreover, we conducted a questionnaire survey for OHNs on the competencies required for the development of health services, and clarified the competency rates and their related factors according to career stages of OHNs.

Free Research Field

産業保健看護学