El concepto de Reconocimiento y su utilidad para el campo de la enfermería / The concept of Recognition and its usefulness for the field of Nursing

OBJETIVO: identificar la relación existente entre el concepto de reconocimiento y su utilidad en el campo de la enfermería. METODOLOGÍA: se realizó un análisis de concepto utilizando la propuesta Walker y Avant, con la intención de examinar las características y atributos que definen el concepto de reconocimiento y su relación con la enfermería. CONCLUSIÓN: el concepto de reconocimiento posee características que favorecen la comprensión de fenómenos como la exclusión y discriminación a las que se ven expuestos los seres humanos y las comunidades. La enfermería no es ajena a estas problemáticas, pues debido a su constitución sociohistórica, el reconocimiento social ha sido escaso. En la actualidad, diversos movimientos promovidos por organizaciones públicas y privadas trabajan mancomunadamente a nivel global por una lucha de reconocimiento para la profesión

OBJECTIVE: to identify the relationship between the concept of recognition and its usefulness in the field of Nursing. METHODS: a concept analysis was carried out using the Walker and Avant proposal with the intention of examining the characteristics and attributes that define the concept of recognition and its usefulness in the field of Nursing. CONCLUSION: the concept of recognition has characteristics that favor the understanding of phenomena such as exclusion and discrimination to which human beings and communities are exposed. Nursing is not immune to these problems since due to its socio-historical constitution, social recognition has been scarce. At present, various movements promoted by public and private organizations are working together at the global for professional recognition

Occupational Health Nursing: Competence and experience to achieve the safety, health and well-being of the working population. / Enfermería del Trabajo: competencia y experiencia para alcanzar la seguridad, la salud y el bienestar de la población laboral.

From 1953, with the appearance of the Company Occupational Health Technical Assistant Specialist, until 2005, with the recognition of the specialty of Occupational Health Nursing, socio-cultural and technological changes have determined the evolution of work, its processes and conditions, but have also specified the occupational risks to which workers are exposed, as well as how to organize prevention, safety and occupational health. Occupational Health Nursing is defined as a nursing specialty that addresses the health status of individuals in their relationship with the workplace, in order to achieve the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being of the working population, taking into account the individual characteristics of the worker, the job and the socio-labour environment in which they develop. Occupational Health Nursing undertakes its basic functions through the surveillance of workers' health, and constitutes, beside Occupational Medicine, the basic health unit, which in turn is part of the prevention services of both public and private companies. Today there are about 9,000 specialists in Occupational Health Nursing in Spain, an insufficient number to guarantee the prevention of accidents at work and occupational diseases, the early detection of occupational pathology, the promotion of health through modification of lifestyles and the improvement of the well-being of the Spanish working population. Occupational Health Nursing is aware of the challenges that it must face in the coming years and therefore, it relies on competences as fundamental as teaching, management and research to integrate into interdisciplinary projects in occupational health that provide solutions to increasingly complex health and safety problems at work.

History, Passion, and Performance.

History, Passion, and Performance was chosen as the theme for the 75th anniversary of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) kickoff. The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses has a long history created by passionate, dedicated members. This article highlights historical foundations of the Association, describes the occupational health nurse's passion to drive quality care for workers and discusses future professional and organizational challenges.

Reflexão crítica sobre a gênese da enfermagem do trabalho / Critical reflection about the genesis of occupational nursing / Reflexión crítica sobre la génesis de enfermería del trabajo

Objetivo: compreender quais os fundamentos para o surgimento da especialização de Enfermagem do trabalho, tendo em perspectiva a Enfermagem moderna na interface do trabalho na sociedade capitalista. Método: estudo descritivo, a partir de revisão bibliográfica, realizada entre maio e dezembro de 2014, em livros e artigos do acervo pessoal e bases informatizadas que atendessem aos descritores: enfermagem do trabalho; saúde do trabalhador; história da enfermagem do trabalho. Realizamos a análise sob a perspectiva materialista histórica de vertente ontológica. Resultados: a enfermagem do trabalho surgiu ainda em fins do século XIX na Europa para tratar as moléstias ocupacionais, porém consolidou-se no Brasil na década de 1970, tendo em vista a intensa industrialização desse período. Conclusão: a enfermagem do trabalho surgiu no intuito de contribuir para a reprodução das relações de trabalho capitalistas e a ampliação da acumulação de capital.(AU)

Objective: to understand what are the foundations for the emergence of occupational health nursing specialization, taking modern nursing into perspective in the work interface within a capitalist society. Method: a descriptive study, from a literature review, carried out between May and December 2014, in books and articles from a personal collection and computerized which were compiled from bases with the descriptors: nursing; health; history of nursing work. We carried out the analysis under the historical materialist perspective of ontological dimension. Results: occupational nursing emerged in the late nineteenth century in Europe to treat occupational diseases, but it consolidated in Brazil in the 1970s, in view of the intense industrialization of this period. Conclusion: occupational nursing arose in order to contribute to the reproduction of capitalist labor relations and the expansion of capital accumulation.(AU)

Objetivo: comprender lo que los fundamentos para el surgimiento de conocimientos de enfermería del trabajo, con miras a la enfermería moderna en la interface del trabajo en la sociedad capitalista. Método: estudio descriptivo, basado en revisión de la literatura, llevado a cabo entre mayo y diciembre de 2014 en libros y artículos de colección personal y bases de datos informatizadas que cumplieron con los descriptores: Enfermería del Trabajo. Historia de la Enfermería. Salud del trabajador; salud de los trabajadores; la historia del trabajo de enfermería. Se realizó un análisis desde la perspectiva materialista histórico de la dimensión ontológica. Resultados: enfermería del trabajo surgió incluso a finales del siglo XIX en Europa para el tratamiento de las enfermedades profesionales, pero se consolidó en Brasil en la década de 1970, en vista de la intensa industrialización de este período. Conclusión: enfermería del trabajo surgió con el fin de contribuir a la reproducción de las relaciones del trabajo capitalistas y la expansión de la acumulación de capital.(AU)

Scientific committee on occupational health nursing: past and present.

This article provides an overview of the Scientific Committee on Occupational Health Nursing (SCOHN), one of the scientific committees of the International Commission on Occupational Health, from its beginnings in 1966 to today. The purposes and priorities are described, along with lessons learned over the years.

A formação dos profissionais de enfermagem do trabalho na perspectiva das instituições formadoras / La formación de los profesionales de enfermería del trabajo en la perspectiva de las instituciones educativas / Occupational nursing training in terms of educational institutions

O estudo é continuidade de pesquisa realizada sobre a formação dos profissionais em enfermagem do trabalho na Região Sudeste e Sul do Brasil. O objetivo maior desta pesquisa foi caracterizar a formação do profissional especializado em enfermagem do trabalho em nível técnico e superior nas Regiões Norte, Nordeste e Centro-Oeste do Brasil. Teve um delineamento exploratório com abordagem quantitativa, tendo 290 instituições públicas e privadas de nível superior e médio do curso de enfermagem que participaram da pesquisa.O recorte temporal foi entre 1974 e 2008, sendo usado um questionário com perguntas fechadas para a coleta de dados. Portanto, há 391 profissionais formados em enfermagem do trabalho e 60 instituições responsáveis pelos cursos de especialização/qualificação. Conclui- se que as Regiões Norte e Centro-Oeste do Brasil apresentam um número reduzido de instituições formadoras de profissionais especializados/qualificados em enfermagem do trabalho, principalmente quando comparadas à Região Nordeste.

The study is a continuation of research into occupational nursing training in Southeast and South Brazil. The main aim of this study was to characterize specialization training in occupational nursing at the technical and higher levels in Brazil’s North, Northeast and Midwest. The design was exploratory and quantitative, and the population studied were occupational nursing trainees at 290 participating technical and higher education institutions between 1974 and 2008. Data were collected by a questionnaire of closed questions. There were thus 391 graduate occupational nurses and 60 institutions responsible for the specialization/qualification courses. It was concluded that the North and Midwest regions have a limited number of institutions training occupational nurses, especially as compared with Northeast Brazil.

El estudio es continuidad de investigación sobre la formación de los profesionales en enfermería del trabajo en las Regiones Sureste y Sur de Brasil. El objetivo más grande de esta encuesta fue caracterizar la formación del profesional especializado en enfermería del trabajo en nivel técnico y superior en las Regiones Norte, Nordeste y Centro-Oeste de Brasil. Tuvo un delineamiento exploratorio con enfoque cuantitativo, en 290 instituciones públicas y particulares de nivel superior y medio del curso de enfermería participantes. El recorte temporal fue entre 1974 y 2008, siendo usado un cuestionario con preguntas cerradas para la recolección de datos. Por tanto, hay 391 profesionales formados en enfermería del trabajo y 60 instituciones responsables por los cursos de especialización/calificación. Se concluye que las Regiones Norte y Centro-Oeste de Brasil presentan un número reducido de instituciones que forman profesionales especializados/calificados en enfermería del trabajo, principalmente cuando se compara con la Región Nordeste.

Generalized public health and industrial nurses work together. 1949.

Occupational health has been considered a subset of public health nursing for years. The first industrial or occupational health nurses were employed by large companies in the 1890s but the role evolved quickly in the early 20(th) century. By mid-century, many large companies employed a physician and nurse(s) to provide examinations, screenings, episodic care, and trauma intervention for workers. Occupational health nurses faced different problems than community-based public health nurses in generalized nursing service. The intersection of public health and employee health was apparent, though, because large industries often constituted the main workplace for a smaller community and sickness could spread throughout a town if the occupational health nurse was not well-prepared in principles of infection control and health promotion. Excerpts from this July 1949 article about building relationship between public health and industrial nurses illustrate the benefits hoped for when they were formally connected to one another through cross-training and in-service education. The author, Margaret Schwem, was a supervisor at the Rensselaer County Department of Health in Troy, New York. In the original article, Schwem included a list of reference materials for those interested in public health and industrial nursing.

The struggle for sanitary reform in the Lancashire cotton mills, 1920-1970.

AIM: This paper reports one aspect of a larger study. The aim of this aspect was to explore the role of the "welfare officer" in promoting the health of cotton mill workers during this period. BACKGROUND: The paper considers one element of a broad exploratory study of the health of women cotton mill workers in the North West of England. The original purpose of the study, which was conducted in 2002 in two towns, Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne, was to explore the women's own perceptions of the impact of their work on their health, and to find out what, if any, help and support they obtained. During the course of the study it was discovered that "welfare officers", some of whom were trained nurses, had an important role in promoting the health of these workers. The study was therefore expanded to incorporate data obtained directly from interviews with a small sample of welfare officers. The present paper focuses on the issue of sanitary reform and considers the role of the "welfare officer" in promoting public health in the workplace. METHODS: The study employed a combination of archive searches and oral history interviewing. In total, 31 interviews were undertaken between June 2001 and October 2002. The interpretive process focussed both on the ideological power structures which influenced the perspectives of participants, and on evidence for those aspects of participants' experiences which impacted on their health. FINDINGS: In considering their health, female cotton-mill workers recalled that the poor sanitary conditions in their workplaces during the middle years of the 20th century had been a source of some concern to them. They also observed that mill welfare officers took a hand in promoting improvement in available facilities. Welfare officers themselves recounted their own concern regarding the poor sanitary conditions in the mills, and their efforts to improve conditions for the mill workers. CONCLUSIONS: The paper demonstrates the role of a little-known group of health workers in the middle years of the 20th century, and demonstrates the importance of oral history work in re-capturing elements of nursing work and experience, which do not appear extensively in the written record. The study's relevance to contemporary practice lies in the insight it offers into the autonomy with which these occupational health workers defined their roles and performed their work.

Occupational health nursing in Japan. Current practice and future perspectives.

The future is filled with many challenges for occupational health nurses in Japan and around the world. In collaboration with other professionals, Japanese occupational health nurses are able to continue to evolve and expand their roles.

Occupational safety and health in The Gambia. Developing concern for worker health.

It is important for the occupational health nursing community to develop an international interest in worker health in countries with limited resources. The collaboration between The Gambia and the University of Iowa discussed in this article can be replicated in other settings and need not be limited to academic institutions. Corporate sponsorship and inclusion of workplace safety criteria in business contracts provide incentives for fostering change in developing countries.

A century of practice. Occupational health nursing. 1988.

Occupational health nursing has grown and developed throughout the last century, from the influence of a few nurses in the late 19th century to 1988. Today's occupational health nurses have a significant impact on millions of workers across the United States and worldwide in multinational corporations. Nurses currently enjoy expanded roles, including involvement in the political arena and policy-making decisions, development of health promotion programs, research, and education, as well as providing more traditional but equally important employee health services, counseling, and teaching. The American workforce, as well as management teams, have seen the outcomes of quality occupational health nursing care and contributions throughout the years. The practice of American occupational health nursing which began in very humble surroundings and conditions in the 19th century continues to thrive in the space age of the 1980s and 1990s and to plan for the challenges of the 21st century.