Hospital Employee Health – August 1, 2006

August 1, 2006

• JCAHO adds flu standard with no declination statements required

  Hospitals must try to improve participation in influenza immunization of health care workers.

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• Freedom: Hospitals halt annual TB tests

  The tedious job of tracking tuberculin skin tests for hundreds, or even thousands, of employees has ended for hospitals that rarely treat patients with tuberculosis.

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• AOHP at 25: Raising the profile of HEH

  Twenty-five years ago, when hospital employee health was synonymous with tuberculosis testing, hospital hazards received little attention, and AIDS was called gay-related immune deficiency, a group of California nurses joined together with a mission.

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• Workers become ill from floor strippers

  While getting your floors "hospital clean," you may inadvertently be exposing workers to a hazardous chemical that can cause respiratory, skin, and eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and even kidney or liver damage.

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• Hospitals look beyond patient-handling hazards

  While safe patient handling is gaining momentum across the country, hospitals are also turning their attention to other causes of costly musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injuries.

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• Put a premium on privacy in employee health protocol

  Employees often feel uneasy about the confidentiality of information maintained by employee health, notes Marilyn Piek, RN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM, RMHC.

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• Change for life: Wellness wins over employees

  Promoting health is an obvious goal for a hospital; but often the efforts extend only outward, to the community, not internally to the hospital's own employees.

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• Sign signals safe lifting practices practiced here

  Signs are everywhere in a hospital: 'No Smoking. Authorized Personnel Only. Caution: Radiation.' So can one more sign protect nurses' backs?

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