For the past several years, student nurses in their senior year of schooling have been corning into our Plant Health Department to gather some insight into occupational health nursing. The student generally is introduced to industry when she accepts a part-time job on an assembly line for the summer to help shoulder the expense of her education. As she looks around her work environment, views the potential problems that could exist, and listens to the workers discussing their various health problems, she suddenly realizes the great opportunity for a nurse to display her expertise. As the student returns to her classes and goes through the various parts of the nursing course, her thoughts return to those people on the assembly line, and her interest toward occupational health nursing seems to become an important issue. During the last few weeks of her senior year, the student has the privilege, due to her academic and cfinical accomplishments, to select a clinical project that was not a part of her regular school curriculum. Thus ourstudent selected occupational health nursing. This is generally how our student explained her introduction to occupational health nursing.