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Mirroring an overall trend in health care quality, employee safety increasingly is taking center stage for occupational health nurses, say the experts. And this trend is growing in two parallel directions: an expanding role for current occ-health nursing positions, as well as potential new job opportunities.
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Root cause analysis, long a popular tool for quality improvement initiatives, holds tremendous promise for occupational health professionals seeking to improve their disability management programs, says Jennifer Christian,MD, president and chief medical officer of Webility Corp. in Wayland, MA.
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Ergonomics is more than a way to lift patients. As Butler (PA) Memorial Hospital found, it can lift morale and employee satisfaction as well.
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In a ground-breaking study published in the fall/winter issue of Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, a six-week program based upon Group Empowered Drumming demonstrated not only reduced burnout in long-term care workers, but also reduced Total Mood Disturbance by 46%.
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Often overlooked, older HIV patients provide a glimpse into the future of the AIDS epidemic in nations where antiretroviral therapy is readily available. AIDS Alert has asked HIV clinicians, researchers, and patients to discuss how these older patients might help us predict the future of the epidemic as the population of HIV-infected people older than 50 increases.
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With more employers recognizing the real costs of overweight employees and getting behind weight management programs, why do the headlines continue to scream that Americans are the fattest people in the world? Does anybody know the secret to successful, long-term weight loss? In a series of interviews, the experts shared their thoughts on what has worked and what hasnt in their own workplace efforts.
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A case of being in the right place at the right time or perhaps, more accurately, the wrong place at the right time led to an on-site visit by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Grove Park Inn Resort Spa in Asheville, NC, and a plan to mitigate a health hazard that had been causing employees to complain of conditions including pneumonia, head-aches, sore throats, and burning and watery eyes.
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Heres one for the strange-but-true case file: A 48-year-old woman under home therapy for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) presented to the emergency department with a one-day history of fever and chills accompanied by general abdominal discomfort without nausea or vomiting.
