Glossary of Site Terminology

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• Occupational Health Nursing

  Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing is a specialty practice that provides for and delivers cost-effective health and safety services to employees. The practice is focused on the promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from occupational and environmental hazards within the context of a safe and healthy work environment.

• Oncology Nursing

  A branch of medicine dealing with cancer.

• Operating Room Nursing

  Men and women in this field are Registered Nurses who play key roles in operating room settings, such as assisting during surgical procedures ("scrub nurse"); RN First Assistant (assists surgeon with surgical procedures); or, as a "circulating nurse" who coordinates the team of surgeons, nurses, technicians, and anesthetists who are involved in surgery.

• Orthopedics

  A branch of medicine concerned with the correction or prevention of skeletal deformities.