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Occupational health nursing is a specialty nursing practice that provides and delivers health and safety
programs and services to workers and community groups. It focuses on promotion, maintenance and
restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from workrelated and environmental
hazards.

2. Roles and responsibilities of an industrial nurse:
a. identify possible health risk.
b. recognize and prevent health effects from
any hazardous exposures (heat,
chemicals, radiation, etc.)
c. evaluate and manage illnesses and
injuries that may affect a workers health
and safety in the workplace.
d. treat workers' injuries/illnesses.
e. help lessen potential health hazards in
the workplace.
f. provide health education or management
that encourage workers to take
responsibility for their own health, such
as smoking cessation, exercise/fitness,
nutrition and weight control, stress
management, control illnesses and
effective use of medical services.
g. teach employees how to identify potential
hazards on their own and ways to be more
responsible in their workplace (health
teachings).
h. basic first aid and health screening.
i. administer first aid treatments and provide
medications for employees as needed.
j. monitor and record the patient's condition.
k. assist all injured employees, give quality
care.
l. assist annual medical examination of all
employees.
m. administer medications, monitor the taking
of prescribed medicines and treatments for
various illnesses.

3. Industrial hygiene is a practice of ensuring the general health and safety of the company by giving
information, services, and equipment to help identify, evaluate, and control any potentially harmful activities
in the work and learning environment. It also a control and prevention of hazards from work that may result
in injury, illness, or affect the well being of workers. These hazards or stressors are typically divided into the
categories biological, chemical, physical,ergonomic and psychosocial
4. Industrial hygiene is important to a company because it's not all about maintaining cleanliness standards at
work but it actually means recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards that occurs from work. It
also be able to identify and correct hazardous or unhealthy workplace conditions thus, there would be
reduction in injury or illnesses related with the employees occupation, reduction in the number of workers
who have to leave employment early through injury or illness. It also keeps them to a safe environment from
physical and chemical hazards/overexposures.

5. My expectations in this field of nursing (occupational nursing) is that we can see the area or the place where
the employees work, in short, we can have a tour for us to observe the surroundings that might be a factor
for their health or present illnesses; to witness or provide assistance/care to a fresh injure patients related to
her/his occupation, major or minor injury; perform thorough assessment to patients with a scheduled
assessment; do basic procedures such as wound dressing, blood pressure checking , getting vital signs, giving
of injection shot; give health teachings to patients that would really help them understand their health;
maintains strict records and documents with occupational health requirements.
Yes, my expectations were met and there was one that has not and I had a great experience here in BUSCO as
a occupational nursing but our experience were short.