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Nurses who prepare and administer chemotherapy agents in outpatient settings often dont use the proper gloves or other recommended personal protective equipment (PPE), according to a survey of oncology nurses. Furthermore, few nurses who handle chemotherapeutic drugs received health evaluations that included reproductive and cancer evaluation, the survey found.
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Studies have associated workplace exposures to hazardous drugs with health effects such as skin rashes and adverse reproductive events (including infertility, spontaneous abortions, or congenital malformations) and possibly leukemia and other cancers.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced an initiative to emphasize hazard communication, an area that already is a routine part of inspections. Every inspection even those focused on a specific complaint includes a review of hazard communication and record keeping.
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A phlebotomist developed active TB and 56 employees tested positive for latent TB infection after a highly infectious patient spent three weeks on general medical wards before being placed in a negative pressure room.
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Are you comfortable talking about return on investment? How about loss run analysis? Those business concepts may sound like someone elses job. But if you talk the language of the hospitals financial officers, you may win unprecedented support for your ergonomics program.
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The Good Samaritan Project in Kansas City, MO, has HIV prevention and intervention programs for African-American women that draw on the knowledge and experiences of Jean Johnson, an outreach coordinator who also is African-American. A lot of these ideas are my ideas because Im African-American, and I know how to communicate with people who look like me, she says. I place a lot of emphasis on African-Americans with HIV because thats where HIV is now.
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Older Americans always have accounted for about 10% of the HIV population, but in Florida their share of the epidemic runs to 14% of the population, and the fastest growing rate of people newly diagnosed with HIV are women older than 50.
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FDA approves Hep C drugs; Oral fluid-based rapid HIV test approved.
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The Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents were updated March 23 and are available at the AIDS info web site. The guidelines were developed and updated by the panel on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV Infection, convened by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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