Hospital Employee Health – March 1, 2019

March 1, 2019

• Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios Protect Healthcare Workers

  A measure that would have mandated nurse-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts was recently voted down, leaving California as the only state with a law.

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• Failure to Report, Press Charges ‘Enabling’ ED Violence

  Healthcare workers and their employers are to some extent “enabling” an epidemic of violence by not reporting attacks and pressing charges, the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians warns.

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• ACEP Violence Poll Highlights ED Violence

  The American College of Emergency Physicians recently conducted a survey about workplace violence, compiling responses from more than 3,500 members.

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• A Sharp Rise in the ‘Constantly Fearful’ in the ED

  In a particularly disturbing finding, researchers conducting a follow-up study of emergency physicians found a near sevenfold increase in those who felt “constantly fearful” at work.

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• ‘Futile’ Care and a Desire to Leave Medicine

  Providing potentially unnecessary or ineffective care for patients near the end of life can contribute to feelings of futility and burnout and a desire to leave the medical profession, researchers found.

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• Two-Thirds of EMS Workers Have Been Attacked on Job

  In the United States, EMS workers’ risk of violence is 22-times higher than the average risk faced by all workers.

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• OSHA Surprise Inspections on Illness and Injury Reports

  Effective until mid-October 2019, the OSHA Site-Specific Targeting program may trigger inspections of injury and illness electronic data submitted by employers.

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• American Healthcare Worker Exposed to Ebola Discharged

  The unidentified worker never developed Ebola but was exposed while delivering care in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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