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Here's yet another reason to improve patient handling: Health care workers involved in patient handling tasks may be at greater risk of assaults from patients.
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The release of millions of N95 filtering facepiece respirators during the novel H1N1 pandemic has revealed a potentially serious problem in preparedness: N95 respirators have different fit characteristics, and not all of them can be successfully fit-tested on health care's predominantly female work force.
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Given that some trace the very founding of hospital infection prevention programs back to the first volleys in the longstanding battle with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), it comes as little surprise that The Joint Commission has made these bugs the focus of a National Patient Goal for 2010.
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The Joint Commission has dropped a controversial infection prevention patient safety goal that recommended sentinel event investigations of unanticipated patient deaths and serious injuries due to health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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These following tips were adapted from "Suggestions for preventing musculoskeletal disorders in home health care workers," published in Home Healthcare Nurse.
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Call it the perfect storm: Patients with dementia or serious chronic illness being treated in the home. Rising levels of obesity. Aging health care workers. A lack of safety equipment.
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Almost 10 years after the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act created a legal mandate for safer sharps, health care workers still are being stuck with convention devices.
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The Joint Commission's Leadership standard (LD.03.01.01) includes two elements of performance related to intimidation and bullying:
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You can't just mandate a civil workplace. You have to build one.
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Compared with carcinogenic chemicals and infectious diseases, workplace bullying may seem like more of an annoyance than a health risk.