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If you provide medical services at a companys on-site clinic or occupational health office, you know the balancing act organizing charts so they contain what they should but dont contain more than is necessary; having information readily available to those permitted access to it, but making sure privacy laws are observed.
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The severe nationwide shortage of killed flu vaccine has put a stop, at least temporarily, to initiatives in some places that would force health care workers to be vaccinated or risk their jobs, but some health care experts warn that the solution advocated by at least one state that health care workers forego the vaccine entirely so that more is available for higher-risk groups could be dangerous to the very people it aims to protect.
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Presenteeism can seem an almost insurmountable cost of doing business, but a two-year study and project by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas shows that reducing the direct and indirect costs of a major cause of lost productivity is possible in a big way.
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Employees might save some time during the workday by having lunch at their desks, but they could pay for it by making themselves sick.
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The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia was surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in February 2004. In the aftermath of this survey, the coordinator of patient-family education at the institution is convinced patient and family education still is a critical concern of the accrediting agency.
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The Family Resource Center, a pediatric consumer health information library at St. Louis Childrens Hospital, has a multitude of books, videos, DVDs, and brochures on childrens health and wellness from birth to adolescents. Some of the materials are from an adult perspective, others from that of a child.
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As patient and family education coordinator for a large Miami-based health care system, Sharon Sweeting, MS, RD, LD, CDE, is the resource person for the bedside or clinic-based educators.
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For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.
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