Archive for March, 2009
Employee Wellness Ideas
Want some wellness program ideas and wellness policy ideas to get you started? Or maybe you want to jump start or improve upon your current wellness program? The list below provides ‘best practices’ that have the potential to help meet any wellness program budget! The Employee Wellness ideas are divided into topic areas.
General Wellness Progam [...]
Employee Wellness Screening And Employee Wellness Intervention Programs
Health screenings are significant programs to identify chronic conditions in their early stages. Once identified, wellness behavior modification programs can help prevent a disease from progressing. Working with local hospitals and other corporations, you can obtain information on providing evaluation and behavior modification programs that could improve your employees’ health and save your business money [...]
Health Risk Appraisals / Health Risk Assessments (HRA’s)
Health Risk Appraisals / Health Risk Assessments (HRA’s), are an assessment tool or questionnaire scientifically designed to identify health risks and outline information to support people in making healthy changes that effect their health and prevent chronic conditions.
Health Risk Appraisals / Health Risk Assessments (HRA’s) have four standard elements in worksite settings:
• A Questionnaire
• A [...]
Employee Wellness Benefits of an Onsite Heath Professional
There are numerous advantages to thinking of a part-time or full-time occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN). Occupational health nursing is the specialty practice that provides 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 [...]
Employee Employee Wellness Interest Survey
We are creating Employee Wellness to help you feel better and maintain your health. In order to plan programs that best meet your needs and interests we would like your suggestions! Please take a few minutes to answer some questions about your interests. Your answers will be combined with those of others’ and reviewed to [...]
Employee Wellness : Monitor and Evaluate Your Employee Wellness
Program evaluation may be The last step, but it should 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 evaluation data, adjustments have the potential to be made to fine-tune your wellness program. Adjusting the [...]
Employee Wellness : Select and Implement a Program
Armed with data, Employee Wellness topic preferences and objectives and goals – and a Employee Wellness Committee eager to get things done – it is now time to decide how best to take action. This website provides tools to help you! You can read about the different types of wellness programs provided by other [...]
Employee Wellness : develop a Detailed Action Plan
The Employee Wellness Committee should set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and goals, 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 be [...]
Employee Wellness : Establish Goals and Objectives
A Employee Wellness without objectives and 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 [...]
Employee Wellness : Gather Data to Ascertain Needs and Expectations
Before you begin laying out your Employee Wellness you need to have a benchmark. Attaining a thorough needs assessment is vital to the performance of your wellness program for two reasons: First it ensures that your Employee Wellness activities will be targeted to meet your company’s specific needs so that outcomes have the potential to [...]
