The course provides an overview of the basic skills of a manager and applies these skills through a series of projects and case studies. It examines the evolution of management and the organizational culture and environment. It also teaches the decision-making skills and the skills involved in planning, organizing, leading and controlling, including planning and facilitating change, teamwork, applying motivational techniques and effective communication.

Focuses on work and its relationship to health. Introduces the community focus of the occupational health nurse through the beginning use of frameworks, epidemiological principles and relevant legislation. Emphasizes building partnerships with management, labour, and other health and safety team members.

Presents theory related to potential hazards found in various work settings. Focuses on the industrial hygiene principles and practices of anticipating, recognizing, and evaluating biological, chemical and physical hazards. Emphasizes a collaborative approach to eliminating or controlling these hazards, whether the occupational health nurse is a member of a team of occupational health and safety practitioners or is the only on-site practitioner with knowledge and skills in industrial hygiene. Prerequisites: NSOH 7100

Further broadens knowledge of work environments and the work-health relationship. Uses a population health promotion model for the risk assessment of health challenges arising from psychosocial, safety and ergonomic issues in the workplace. Bridges to future learning in assessing worker health. Uses processes of systematic inquiry and critical thinking to analyze jobs for their environmental, psychosocial, safety and biomechanical demands on employees. Prerequisites: NSOH 7100, NSOH 7200

This clinical course will focus on assessing work environments, analyzing jobs, and making recommendations to improve the health and safety of the workplace. The course provides the nurse with opportunities to build on communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and systematic inquiry skills related to the role of the occupational health nurse. This course uses a distance delivery format. Students will complete the readings, course assignments and schedule site visits in consultation with their tutor. Students have 12 weeks to complete all course requirements. Prerequisites: NSOH 7250

An opportunity to consolidate occupational health nursing skills in analyzing jobs through interview, observation, measurement and critical analysis. Emphasizes the development of a professional technical report. Prerequisites: NSOH 7301

Emphasizes decision making that promotes the fitness-to-work of individual employees experiencing health challenges. Focuses on the OHN's role as a Case Manager using an employee-centred approach and collaborating with the supervisor, management, union, the health safety team, insurance carriers, and health care providers. Aims to achieve the best possible individual and organizational outcomes as the goal of this collaboration. Prerequisites: NSOH 7300 or NSOH 7301

Introduces concepts, principles, and theory of occupational toxicology through the study of occupational diseases. Emphasizes a collaborative approach to anticipating, preventing, recognizing and addressing potential health risks related to biological and physical, as well as chemical hazards in the workplace. Explores the occupational health nursing role in providing leadership in this process. Prerequisites: NSOH 7400

The purpose of this clinical course is to give students an opportunity to pursue a particular area of interest in Occupational Health Nursing. The learning intentions, activities, and evaluation strategies for the course will be determined by the student and the course tutor using a learning contract. The learning contract will draw on the content and process threads of the OHN curriculum framework. Prerequisites: NSOH 7450

Emphasizes an integrative approach to program planning, addressing the individual, job and organizational factors that influence a specific workplace health issue. The process of program development includes: defining the workgroup at risk, developing collaborative relationships with stakeholders, designing a comprehensive program plan, and advocating improved workplace health and safety through written and verbal presentations of the program plan. The program plan includes documentation of a needs assessment, relevant goals and objectives and strategies for implementation and evaluation. Prerequisites: NSOH 7500

Introduces diverse perspectives on teaching and learning related to specialty nursing, and explores the impact that connected teacher-learner relationships have on effective learning. Views teaching and learning as mutual and parallel processes, being influenced by beliefs, intentions and capacities of both teachers and learners. Further develops teaching and learning abilities according to mutually agreed upon learning outcomes and intentions.