Hospital Employee Health – December 1, 2018
December 1, 2018
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Illinois Becomes Latest State to Enact Law to Prevent Healthcare Violence
Effective Jan. 1, 2019, Illinois has passed a sweeping state law to protect healthcare workers from violence after a horrific assault on two nurses last year by a prisoner who had disarmed a guard.
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New Illinois Law to Protect HCWs From Violence
Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the Illinois Health Care Violence Prevention Act includes information on providing medical care to committed persons.
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Burnout Difficult to Define, Measure in Prevalence Data
"Physician burnout” is a catchphrase in employee health, but there is little agreement on how to define it, resulting in even less understanding of how to measure, treat, and prevent it.
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Is Breakdown of the Physician-Patient Relationship Driving Burnout?
The lead author of a recent commentary on the elusive nature of burnout raised a few eyebrows with a provocative title, “Physician Burnout—A Serious Symptom, But of What?”
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CDC Issues Draft Guidelines for Infection Control in HCWs
Culminating a long process of reviewing and updating current guidelines that are two decades old, the CDC recently published its new infection control draft guidance.
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The Secret of Working Sick: ‘Don’t Mask, Don’t Tell’
With the wide variation and limited effectiveness of healthcare policies to prevent presenteeism in sick healthcare workers, has the situation devolved to unspoken policies of “don’t mask, don’t tell?”
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One-third of Long-term Care Workers Skip Flu Shot
A CDC 2017-2018 survey found that only 67% of long-term care workers were immunized.