2017 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 21-26
The purpose of this research was to clarify the health-related problems and needs/expectation of occupational health (OH) nursing activities among hospital nurses with less than 6 years of experience. The 28.5% of the nurses knew about the OH nursing activities by OH nurses. As for health-related problems, work-related disorders such as lumbago, stiff shoulder and insomnia were the highest as a whole. Human relations with superiors, with doctors, with colleagues, working areas of nursing, general working conditions in medical institutions, the problems of overwork, the problems about infection and the education and training for nurses were significantly high with the nurses of 2 to 6 year working experience. In either item, the average of nurses with longer working experience was high and it was suggested that the expectation of OH nursing activities was high in infection measures and improvement of the work environment that might threaten the health of nurses.
