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What Every Prescriber Should Know: FDA’s Updated Warnings for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
Fluoroquinolones have risks and benefits that should be carefully considered before prescribing to patients for uncomplicated bacterial infections.
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Trump Presidency Throws Affordable Care Act into Uncertainty
The surprise election of Donald Trump has consumers, insurers worried about the future of the healthcare law's provisions.
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Patient Rights Can Protect You Too
Does your hospital have what it takes to comply with CMS Hospital CoPs? -
States Offer a Variety of Health Initiatives for Consideration
Voters come around on medical marijuana, roundly reject higher tobacco taxes.
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OSHA Updates Guidelines on Occupational Safety
While the scope includes non-healthcare settings, employee health professionals should be aware of and encourage adoption of new guidelines by OSHA, titled: Updated Recommended Practices to Encourage Workplace Safety and Health Programs.
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Did Gloveless Contact Transmit Zika?
Though employee health professionals are aware that Zika virus can be transmitted by a needlestick, a case involving transmission from a dying patient with an extremely high viral titer to an acquaintance caregiver has implications for protecting healthcare workers.
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Many HCWs in Long-Term Care Skip Flu Shots
Immunization rates for healthcare workers in long-term care were at a meager 69% last flu season — and that was an improvement.
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Flu Shot Rates Climbing for Healthcare Workers
Driven by mandates, vaccination-or-mask policies, reporting requirements, and other factors, healthcare worker flu immunization rates have risen 15.5% since the 2010-2011 season, the CDC reports.
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Key Strategies for Millennial Workers
Kathy Espinoza, assistant vice president of ergonomics and safety for the insurance brokerage and consulting firm of Keenan & Associates, suggests employee health professionals consider strategies with healthcare workers from the millennial generation.
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Mind the Gap: Employee Health and the Millennial Generation of HCWs
As healthcare demographics continue to shift, the older generation is giving way to a new wave of healthcare workers known for their lifelong relationship with technology.