This study was conducted to determine the occupational health and safety of 47 nurse clinical instructors employed in four selected local universities in Metro Manila to provide input for policy formulation. It employed a descriptive cross-sectional design using a researcher-made survey tool for data gathering.

Results showed that the respondents, majority of which belong to the age bracket of 40 below (49%), were females (66%), had been employed in their respective local universities for 6 to 10 years (44.7%), and were Master's degree holders (87%), generally have a high exposure to occupational hazards, low incidence of injury, and low level of workplace security. It was also found that there was no significant difference in the level of exposure to occupational hazards when grouped according to age, sex, length of service, area of assignment, and highest educational attainment at p-values of more than 0.05 level of significance (0.557, 0.678, 0.473, 0.229, and 0.292, respectively), no significant difference in the level of occupational injury incidence when grouped according to the same profile variables (0.559, 0.736, 0.763, 0.442, and 0.361, respectively), and no significant difference in the level of workplace security for occupational hazards when grouped according to the same variables (0.719, 0.469, 0.905, 0.113, and 0.269, respectively). Moreover, no significant relationship between the level of health and safety encounter and level of workplace security in terms of hazard exposure was observed with p-value of 0.073, and no significant relationship in terms of injury incidence was with two-tailed significance of 0.208.

Despite such a lack of significant differences found in the study, the nurse clinical instructors consistently had a low level of occupational security to protect them from the hazards and injuries they are faced with. With no significant relationship found, it can be reflected that irrespective of level of occupational health and safety encounters, the nurse clinical instructors manifested the same level of security.

Given the issues concerning affiliating health institutions and educational institutions as problems emphasized by the respondents that they have encountered in their practice environment, it was apparent that actions need to be taken to augment the workplace security of nurse educators. Among the recommendations were to increase the awareness and sensitivity of the public to the occupational health and safety situation that nurse clinical instructors were confronted with in the exercise of their duties in their respective health institutions of assignment, and urged legislators and appropriate authorities for the prevention of accidents and illness at the practice environment, and the protection of nurse clinical instructors' occupational health and safety through inclusion or policy formulation.

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