Update your knowledge in Occupational Nursing through this program, where you will find the best didactic material with real clinical cases. Learn with us about the latest advances in the specialty to be able to perform quality nursing practice”

This program offers the students the possibility of being introduced and perfected in the wide framework of Occupational Nursing, whose branches range from the promotion of the worker's health to the prevention of occupational diseases and accidents. To the assistance of the injured worker with the monitoring of the process, the medical discharge or disability if the competent body deems it necessary. 

All this fragmented into modules that will detail each area of work of nursing in the environment of occupational health. 
Furthermore, it is a topic of study that despite the fact that care and observation are on the rise, the figures are increasingly prominent in common contingency sick leave, representing a high economic cost for society. 

In the development of the program there will be an exhaustive review of the main concepts that revolve around mutual insurance companies and Prevention Societies and their main functions as private entities and collaborators of the Social Security. All this without losing sight of the nursing staff, who play a fundamental role in the workplace, since their role includes monitoring and understanding the contents of the data they handle and the results of the medical examinations carried out by the prevention and health surveillance companies.  

It is essential the role of the nurses within the managing entities such as mutual work accident insurance companies, in which they represent nursing care in all its essence, providing holistic care to injured workers, promoting the welfare of the patient, covering their recovery needs and managing everything they need from the clinical point of view. And all this from the beginning of the accident until the end of the process. 

The Professional master’s degree represents a complete vision of those aspects that give meaning to the relationship between our working life and our health. 

The program is designed to provide training for 1,500 hours of study, and all theoretical and practical knowledge is presented through high quality multimedia content, master classes and video techniques that allow the exchange of knowledge and experience, maintain and update the intellectual level of its members, create protocols for action and disseminate the most important developments in the specialty.

Update your knowledge through the most complete and updated program on the market, the Professional master’s degree in Occupational Nursing"

This Professional master’s degree in Occupational Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in Occupational Nursing
• Graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies  
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection 

This training will provide you with a sense of security in nursing practice, which will help you grow personally and professionally” 

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professionals with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.  

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.   

A multidisciplinary and dynamic program, perfect for updating your knowledge in occupational health and prevention services management"

Increase your decision-making confidence by updating your knowledge through this master's degree"

The program in Occupational Nursing is aimed at facilitating the performance of nursing personnel in the care of all patients and especially those with problems arising from the work environment, performance of their duties or at risk of suffering them. To this end, TECH offers students the best and most innovative tools that will keep them up to date in the prevention and promotion of health in the workplace.

This program is designed to update your knowledge in Occupational Nursing, with the use of the latest educational technology, to contribute with quality and safety to decision making, care, follow-up and monitoring of the patient" 

General Objectives

• Understand the concepts of health and the legislative framework that applies to occupational nursing
• Delve into the management system that plans the activity of nursing care
• Distinguish between the different occupational risk prevention techniques that are linked to prevention and health promotion in the workplace
• Distinguish between the pathologies of occupational origin and their management, as well as the different stages of occupational disability

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Up-to-Date Information in Occupational Health

• Define occupational health
• Explain the repercussions of health on the National System of Social Security
• Define the most significant data on a worldwide scale on the subject of health and safety in the workplace
• Define the most special jobs in terms of health
• Describe health both on a public and occupational level

Module 2. Conceptual and Legal Framework of Occupational Nursing  

• Explain historically the evolution of occupational nursing
• Distinguish the profile of occupational nursing personnel  
• Explain the legislative framework that applies to occupational nursing  
• Identify the European directive on occupational health and safety
• Describe the current legislation on occupational health

Module 3. Health Law and Deontology in Occupational Nursing  

• Explain the rights and responsibilities of healthcare professionals
• Define the rights and responsibilities of patients
• Explain the process of obtaining informed consent and the confidentiality of their work
• Define the Personal Data Protection guidelines
• Distinguish ethical and deontological aspects in nursing practice
• Analyze the professional responsibility of occupational nursing
• Define the legislation on healthcare professionals

Module 4. General Aspects of Management  

• Explain the different layers that make up companies and types of organization
• Explain the characteristics of a working team and the materials
• Formulate the organization of a work team
• Apply teamwork as a central axis of the job
• Strategically plan according to the necessities that arise
• Highlight the importance of occupational law
• Define the different quality systems to which companies are subjected and the audits they undergo
• Describe the different protocols and performance assessment for occupational nursing practice

Module 5. Techniques for the Prevention of Occupational Risks  

• Define security and the safety techniques of the working environment  
• Investigate, analyze and evaluate occupational accidents
• Apply occupational safety regulations
• Distinguish and guide collective and individual regulations
• Describe the emergency and self-protection plans
• Analyze and identify the specific risks
• Explain the process of manipulation and segregation of toxic and dangerous waste
• Explain road safety rules
• Define the concept and the objectives of industrial hygiene
• Distinguish between the different chemical agents and assess occupational toxicology
• Describe the effects, evaluation and control of chemical agents
• Explain physical agents and control and evaluation
• Explain the effects, evaluation and control of biological agents
• Explain the legal regulations that encompass ergonomics
• Define the concept and objective of ergonomics
• Define the main environmental conditions in ergonomics
• Define the concept and design of a job position
• Implement strategies to evaluate the mental and physical load of a job position
• Apply psychology in the field of prevention and its objectives
• Define the structure and factors of the psychosocial field
• Identify harmful psychosocial factors and assess them

Module 6. Health Prevention and Promotion in the Workplace  

• Perform psychosocial interventions
• Define the concept of prevention and its objectives in the workplace
• Explain what health tests, techniques and diagnostic methods are
• Explain the specific health surveillance protocol in the workplace
• Define what the clinical-occupational history is
• Identify particularly sensitive working populations
• Explain the different vaccinations associated with the working environment
• Define the tasks of health surveillance in the workplace
• Describe the measures to adapt the workplace to the sensitive population or those with health problems. Carry out occupational health promotion within their environments
• Implement intervention strategies in health promotion
• Distinguish between the different health intervention models
• Explain occupational health promotion in the community
• Provide health education within the framework of health promotion
• Define the link of the occupational nurse with the programs of health institutions
• Explain the definition and meaning of an occupational accident
• Define occupational illness and its origin
• Explain the situations of risk during pregnancy and their characteristics
• Explain the child care situation, characteristics and requirements within the work environment

Module 7. Prevention Services Management  

• Carry out primary prevention campaigns
• Describe the methods and resources for preventing disabilities
• Define the after-effects of an occupational accident or occupational disease
• Define the concept of psychology in the work environment
• Define nursing care in the event of occupational pathologies caused by chemical agents
• Explain how nursing care is provided for occupational pathologies caused by physical agents
• Define nursing care in the event of occupational pathologies caused by biological agents

Module 8. Care Area  

• List the psychosocial factors that produce an occupational pathology and how it is addressed by nursing staff
• Define the care strategy for occupational pathologies caused by organization factors
• Explain nursing care for musculo-skeletal occupational pathology
• Explain which models and stages make up the rehabilitation of the patient
• Describe the repercussions for the patient of the socio-labor, psychological and economic occupational pathology
• Define the bodily injury, evaluation and expert appraisal
• Define the main forensic actions in nursing
• Explain what Occupational Disablility is, the grades and the different types
• Establish guidelines for the assessment of a worker's capacity to work
• Define the concepts of sick leave and return to work, accident report and illnesses
• Know how to quantify the patient's impairments and disabilities

Module 9. Occupational Sociology 

• Define the concept of social security management and collaboration bodies
• Define the different benefits based on the type of contingency and its coverage
• Define the regulatory framework of environmental management
• Explain the waste management procedure within workplaces
• Explain the environmental effects of industrial pollution and their audits
• Explain performance management and the importance of its evaluation
• Establish internal communication tools in businesses
• Describe the steps for resolution of conflicts with negotiation and dialogue
• Explain the principles of business responsibility on a social level with the employees
• Explain the importance of in-company training in prevention and occupational safety

Take the opportunity to learn about the latest advances in this field in order to apply it to your daily practice"