[Expertise in occupational health nursing (I). Report on a visit to US occupational health institutions].
As industries' structures have evolved and diversified recently, the framework of occupational health nursing has been expanded on multidisciplinary bases. On the occasion of the opening of the School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (UOEH), the author was given an opportunity to visit US administrations, academic institutions and some industries to investigate occupational medicine and health nursing in that country. And as the author took part in programming the 17th UOEH International Symposium on Occupational Health Nursing Expertise that took place at the campus of the University in October, 1997, these two events are reported in this paper. The first part of the report is on the visit to the US occupational health professionals including occupational health doctors, nurses, industrial hygienists and other staffs. They have perceived that there has never been more emphasis placed on the significance of occupational health services than in recent years, and that young students have become more interested in occupational health. The second report will be on the 17th UOEH International Symposium--Occupational Health Nursing Expertise--the next time.
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3rd Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
D004506:Education, Nursing; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D009314:National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S.; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States; D014489:United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration