Are oncology nurses more susceptible to workplace risk?
Oncology nurses are highly trained in the field of oncology (which is cancer in layman’s term). There are many health risk in the nursing profession such as exposure to contagious diseases and communicable diseases. In the field of oncology, the exposure to high toxic materials i.e., chemodrugs, is also lessened since oncology nurses are well-equipped on how to handle and dispose these hazzards. Also, knowledge in chemotherapy, radiation, how to prevent exposure is primary important for oncology nurses. Maybe the infomation that you got, is those nurses assigned like in nuclear medicine. I for one know someone who got cancer most likely due to chronic exposure to the radiation since she is working with diagnostic radiation/imaging too. But cancer itself, cancer is not contagious so oncology nurses are not really at high risk in cancer.
