Nurses' intervention in specific risk factors in high risk employees. An economic appraisal

Abstract

Occupational health nurses can lower employees' health risks through appropriate screening, education, and monitoring efforts at the worksite. In addition to health promotion as well as benefits education, influencing the demand for health care, creating cost efficient services, and informing employees on how, when, and why to use cost efficient health care services, are the foundations for successful health care cost management. To respond to growing accountability issues, nurses need to quantitatively evaluate the overall impact of their efforts on employees' health status and corporate health care costs. The occupational health nurse can be an effective health care cost manager by using appropriate strategies and resources consistently.