Archive for July, 2009
Wellness Coach : Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals
Health Risk Appraisals / Health Risk Assessments (HRA’s), are an assessment tool or questionnaire scientifically designed to identify health risks and outline information to help people in making healthy changes that influence their health and prevent chronic conditions.
Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals have four standard elements in worksite settings:
• A Questionnaire
• A Computerized [...]
Wellness Coach : Company Health Promotion Program Benefits of an Onsite Heath Professional
There are countless advantages to considering a part-time or full-time occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN). Occupational health nursing is the specialty practice that supports for and delivers health and safety programs and services to employees, and worker populations. The practice focuses on promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, treatment of [...]
Wellness Coach : Employee Corporate Health Promotion Program Interest Survey
We are drafting Worksite Health Promotion Programs to help you feel better and stay healthy. In order to plan programs that best meet your needs and interests we would like your recommendations! Please take a minute to answer some questions about your interests. Your answers will be combined with those of others’ and reviewed to [...]
Wellness Coach : Corporate Wellness Program: Monitor and Assess Your Corporate Wellness Program
Program assessment may be The last step, but it ought to be planned at the beginning of your efforts! Assessment helps you identify what parts of the program are working well and what parts need improvement. Then, based on the assessment data, adjustments have the potential to be made to fine-tune your wellness program. [...]
Wellness Coach : Corporate Health Promotion Program: Select and Implement a Program
Armed with data, Company Health Promotion Program topic preferences and goals and objectives – and a Company Health Promotion Program Committee ready to get things done – it is now time to decide how best to take action. This website supports tools to help you! You can read about the different types of wellness programs [...]
Wellness Coach : Employee Wellness Program: develop a Detailed Action Plan
The Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee ought to set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing goals/objectives, as well as provides details for marketing and evaluating the program. The plan is the detailed map of what types of programs will be provided, when and where they will be scheduled, how they will [...]
Wellness Coach : Workplace Health Promotion Program: Establish Goals and Objectives
A Worksite Wellness Program without goals is somewhat akin to taking a family trip without any planning; you won’t know where you’re going, how to get there, what you want to do once you have arrived, or even whether or not you have arrived! The trip may end up ok, or it may end up [...]
Wellness Coach : Corporate Health Promotion Program: Gather Data to Determine Needs and Expectations
Before you begin drafting your Worksite Wellness Program you need to have a benchmark. Completing a thorough needs assessment is vital to the performance of your wellness program for two reasons: First it ensures that your Worksite Wellness Program activities will be targeted to meet your company’s specific needs so that outcomes have the potential [...]
Wellness Coach : Workplace Wellness Program: Form a Workplace Wellness Program Committee
Creating an active Worksite Health Promotion Program Committee provides opportunities for both senior staff and employee participation in the program. The Wellness Committee ought to be a team of workers and managers who formally meet to plan activities to encourage healthier employee lifestyles.
Typical Functions of a Workplace Wellness Program Committee:
• Evaluating needs & interests
• [...]
Wellness Coach : Corporate Wellness Program: Building Program Support
As with any program, the two key elements for the performance of your wellness program are upper management support & employee involvement. Senior Management sets the vision and arranges the resources from which action plans flow. Genuine support from senior personnel also brings credibility to the wellness program. It is critical that upper management be [...]