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JCAHO adds flu standard with no declination statements required

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Hospital Employee Health – August 1, 2006

August 1, 2006