THE NURSES CHALLENGE IN COPING WITH ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH

This paper discusses the occupational health nurse's dilemmas by illus trating two cases faced by nurses in occupational health practice and setting out their analysis according to a decision-making model. The c ounter-interests, which may offend the principles of conserving profes sional occupational ethics among service consumers and employers as we ll as fellow professionals, are emphasized. This paper also describes the complex problems involved in the worker's safety and the safeguard ing of their autonomy, while preserving interpersonal relations among the various people concerned.