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Many hospitals are failing to address the risk of workplace violence, even when state law requires prevention efforts, according to preliminary findings of a California-based study.
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Identifying smokers when they are admitted to the hospital and offering information on how to quit is good practice, says Connie Graff, RCP, AE-C, a respiratory therapist at Lake Region Healthcare Corporation in Fergus Falls, MN.
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It is difficult to predict what impact the revised patient education standards will have once they are implemented by the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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As part of her job as a health education specialist at Phoenix Childrens Hospital, Fran London, MS, RN, works as a nurse in The Emily Center, the consumer health library.
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Citing the aging work force as one of its ongoing concerns, the Atlanta-based American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) has thrown its support behind the United States Bone and Joint Decade, which is part of the international Bone and Joint Decade initiative.
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Everyone knows that health care is a high-stress industry. But stress is a known factor in many illnesses and causes numerous lost workdays per year. Finding a way to get staff to relax both on and off the job could be a way to combat burnout and, as two hospitals are finding, improve employee retention.
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An innovative new set of workers compensation guidelines developed by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries offers coverage for psychiatric conditions that are either a direct result of an industrial injury or are unrelated, but retarding recovery from an industrial injury.
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On page 87 of our August 2003 issue, we presented an outlined box titled, How to Develop a Strategy: Suggested Points For Analysis, to accompany our cover story. The four key elements of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis were to be included, but two of the elements were inadvertently omitted. We regret the error, and we are reprinting below the entire outline for a SWOT analysis.