This scoping review identifies essential competencies for occupational health nurses, suggesting frameworks for education and training improvements.
Occupational health nursing competencies span basic to advanced levels and integrating knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes required for effective occupational health practice. These competencies highlight the importance of foundational expertise, collaborative coordination, systematic management, and practical occupational health activities. The findings provide a framework that may support the development of structured education and training programs to strengthen occupational health nursing practice in increasingly complex work environments.
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