Hospital Employee Health – June 1, 2017
June 1, 2017
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AOHP Urges OSHA to Pursue ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Violence Reg
As the comment period closes and efforts to promulgate a standard to protect healthcare workers against violence begin, OSHA should broaden its approach and take a “zero-tolerance” stance against all forms of assaults and verbal threats, urges the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.
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Physician Suicide: Stigma Still Holds Sway
Like so many stories of suicide, this one begins with a haunting memory and an unanswerable question. Why would a young student, having passed the rigorous tests and trials to get into medical school and about to begin the education and career that is his seeming life’s purpose, go home for Thanksgiving break and kill himself?
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Three Nurses Acquire Hepatitis A from Transplant Patient
A highly unusual chain of events led to three nurses being infected with hepatitis A virus from a pediatric transplant patient who contracted it from the organ donor.
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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data.
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AOHP Offers Research Scholarship
The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare is seeking proposals for an original research project on current or anticipated issues in hospital-related occupational health.