In the occupational health setting, athletic trainers develop and manage programs designed to keep employees working at full capacity, improving company productivity, and even helping reduce healthcare and insurance costs.
Depending on the size of the facility, the employee health department often may not have a healthcare provider daily. Employees/patients can only be evaluated on days when a provider is scheduled in the clinic. For this reason, injury evaluations may not occur on the day of injury. Preplacement exams are also subject to provider availability.
Early worksite health programs were developed to provide first aid and emergency care to employees working in remote or dangerous locations.
Typically, what are occupational health providers paid to take after-hours calls on weekends and to be available to come in within 20 minutes?
Function as the supervising physician for the nurse practitioner/ physician assistant and on an as-needed basis review all cases seen as part of the occupational health program (OHP), including: