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WOC nurse

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-009386

A registered nurse who has additional education and training in how to care for people who have a wound, an ostomy (an opening made by surgery, from an area inside the body to the outside), or problems with continence (ability to control the flow of urine or the passage of stool). Also called wound, ostomy, and continence nurse.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-009386
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Synonymswound; ostomy; continence nurse
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-009386",
  "term": "WOC nurse",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A registered nurse who has additional education and training in how to care for people who have a wound, an ostomy (an opening made by surgery, from an area inside the body to the outside), or problems with continence (ability to control the flow of urine or the passage of stool). Also called wound, ostomy, and continence nurse.",
  "synonyms": [
    "wound",
    "ostomy",
    "continence nurse"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/woc-nurse/"
}

Record 17,445 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.