Social evaluation of the normative-legal basis of professional risks regulation in regard to nurses

Abstract

The analysis of normative-legal basis to regulate occupational health risks of medical nursing staff as a part of health services institutionalization (by the example of nurses working with ionizing radiation in oncology service) is presented. It was revealed that transition to a model of social partnership between the state and the employer in the field of occupational safety had a negative impact on practice of health preservation of the analyzed social group, which actually has lost financial compensation for harmful working conditions. The authors point out the necessity to expand state functions in the sphere of health preservation or specifying guarantees for safe working conditions to different categories of medical staff at the level of a specialized federal legislation.

Keywords

• health preservation
• health risks
• nurse
• professional activity