This responsive unit provides health services for
individuals and groups at your workplace
When you need it.
Occupational health nurses deliver nursing care, management, advice on health promotion, health maintenance, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
The unit services all industries – including manufacturing, food
processing, wool scouring, contracting, freight along with office based
occupations like accounting and law.
Services
Occupational Health
- Noise measurement
- Hearing testing
- Respiratory monitoring
- Work station assessments
- Hazard identification
- Routine health checks
- Pre and post employment health checks
- Injury prevention programmes
- Diabetic screening
- Vaccinations
- Drug and alcohol testing
Illness and Injury Management
- Pre planned return to work programmes
- Identification of selected work tasks
- ACC trained Discomfort, Injury and Pain Advisor
- Negotiation of individual graduated return to work programmes (illness or injury)
- Monitoring of negotiated return to work programmes
- Liaison with treating practitioner and other health professionals
Who manages the clinic?
Barbara
Haywood has over 15 years experience in occupational health and
rehabilitation. Barbara has the following qualifications, RN, MN,
MCNA (NZ), Dip.Occ.Health Practice, Dip.Rehabilitation. She conducts
liaison between your treatment provider and workplace.
Frith
Gray sees people with acute or chronic ear problems in the workplace.
Frith has the following qualifications RN, B.N Occupational Health
Nurse and Ear Nurse Specialist.
She works closely with the General Practitioners, audiologists and hearing therapists.
Appointments
Appointments
are as required to suit your work environment – during day or night.
Individual appointments at the Hastings Health Centre can be arranged.
Phone 06 873 8550 or 027 248 2844 to discuss your requirements.
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