Occupational Disease Control Nurses

Abstract

worker, the employer and also for social security, since these disabling diseases generate the right to receive the social security benefit, resulting in a cost for the Social Security Social. It is important to emphasize that this is not just a financial loss, considering that occupational diseases affect the health of workers, thus harming their lives, which is their greatest asset. Thus, to protect the health and, consequently, the lives of workers, through the prevention of occupational diseases, the work of the occupational nurse is very important. It is the role of this professional to act preventively, controlling these diseases through actions. Thus, the objective of the work developed here was to present how the work of occupational nurses can effectively contribute to the reduction of occupational diseases. Thus, this article included a brief historical report on the emergence of occupational diseases and, consequently, of occupational medicine, a branch that encompasses occupational nursing, and the role of nurses in this segment was also addressed. Considering nursing as a work activity, a literature review was carried out on the occupational illness of these professionals in general.