Hospital Employee Health – June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
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Measles stress importance of knowing immune status of hospital employees
Make sure you know the measles immune status of your employees and have ready access to the information. -
Declinations can boost HCW flu vaccine rates
Education alone will not boost your influenza vaccination rates, but a dogged campaign that includes declination statements can produce higher rates. -
Will poor match hurt vaccine efforts?
This past winter, influenza vaccine expert Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, got the flu. Yes, he had the flu vaccine. But this year, the vaccine was not a good match with the prevailing strains. -
Smokeout: OR nurses trying to clear the air
OR nurses want to clear the air in the operating room. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in Denver issued a position statement in April urging hospitals and other health care providers to reduce exposure to surgical smoke and bioaerosols released in laser and electrosurgical procedures. -
Hospitals go to 'green clean' to reduce asthma
That "clean" smell in your hospitals may make your employees sick. -
Why it's not enough to train on lift equipment
"Lift equipment isn't necessary unless the patient is obese. It takes too long to use the equipment. The patients won't like it." -
The Joint Comission Update for Infection Control: Check lists check out A-OK with Joint Commission
The seemingly benign use of a checklist to ensure infection control measures are followed during a clinical procedure erupted in controversy recently when a federal agency questioned whether one such program fell into the category of human research. -
The Joint Comission Update for Infection Control: Joint commission warns of pediatric med errors
The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors. -
The Joint Comission Update for Infection Control: Commission disputes critics on cleanliness
The Joint Commission has reiterated its standards require a clean hospital environment in light of comments and criticism at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's April 16th hearing on "Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): A Preventable Epidemic."