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Since the 1880s, occupational health nurses have provided worksite health and safety services. According to the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (2014), the roles and func-tions of the occupational health nurse are: worker and workplace hazard detection, legal and regulatory com-pliance, health promotion and risk reduction, case management, coun-seling, and crisis intervention. Oc-cupational health nurse educational background varies from that of other disciplines, such as medical assistant or health coach. The occupational health nurse’s value is often mea-sured by cost-benefit analysis. According to Merriam-Webster. com (2014), to reinvent “is to make major changes or improvements.