Changing the Conversation— The Occupational Health Nurse's Role in Integrated HS 3™

Abstract

Occupational health nurses have the skills and knowledge to provide a holistic perspective in advancing their company's triple bottom line, healthy people, healthy planet, and healthy profits. The HS^3™ model provides a road map for integrating health, safety, sustainability, and stewardship, all of which directly impact every company's triple bottom line. Occupational health nurses can use the HS^3™ model to promote healthy lifestyles, reduce risk and injuries, protect the natural environment, and improve resource alignment. Occupational health nurses have a unique opportunity to demonstrate the value they bring to their employers using synergistic HS^3™ planning that cost-effectively finks work injury management, health promotion, environmental protection, safety training and surveillance, and regulatory compliance. Implementing the HS^3™ model requires occupational health nurses to be innovators who can change the conversation.

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