1. 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 work‐related 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 worker’s 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.