Question

1. how does documentation in an industrial health crnter differ from that in a physician's practice and why. 2. what types of patient identifiers aer used in ambulatory care and how does this compare to the patient identifiers in acute care

Answer 1

- The occupational health services has had a major impact on health conditions in the workpalce. The occupational health nurse functions in several ways and may provide direct care to employees who become ill and injured, conduct health education programmes for company staff members or set up health programs aimed at establishing specific health behaviours. The occupational health nurse may monitor employees hearing, vision, blood pressure, or blood glucose levels.The main aim is to create safer and healthier work conditions.

The services provide by occupational health professionals functioning individually or as a part of special service units of the enterprise or of external units.The occupatonal health nurse is skilled in primary prevention of injury or disease. The nurse may identify the need for , assess and paln interventions too, for example modify working environments, systems of work or change working practices in order to reduce the risk of hazardous exposure.

- Ambulatory health care is provided for patients in community or hospital based setting. The type of agencies that provide ambulatory health care are medical clinics, ambulatory care units, urgent care centres, cardiac rehabilitation programs, mental health centres,, community outreach programs, and nursing centres. Nurses responsibilities in ambulatory health care settings include provide direct patient care, conducting patient in-take screenings, treating patients with acute and chronic illnesses, or emergency conditions, referring patients to other agencies for additional services, teaching patient's self-care activities, and offering health education programs to promote health maintainence.

Patient identifiers are used to identify the information regarding the specific patient information, which includes: patient name,an assigned identification number, telephonic number, date of birth, address, photo. Staff members should explain that it is done to ensure the right care is provide to the right patient all the time.