Enhancing health care to underserved populations: a model for the occupational nurse practitioner.
1. A nurse practitioner managed health unit for a meat packing/rendering company demonstrates a practice model for providing quality, cost effective health care to a specific population. 2. To gain management support for wellness and health promotion programs, unit cost effectiveness was demonstrated. 3. This model demonstrates success in the use of the nurse practitioner to provide care to a population that traditionally does not seek preventive or early health care.
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat; D008462:Meat-Packing Industry; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care