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The Good Samaritan Project in Kansas City, MO, has HIV prevention and intervention programs for African-American women that draw on the knowledge and experiences of Jean Johnson, an outreach coordinator who also is African-American. A lot of these ideas are my ideas because Im African-American, and I know how to communicate with people who look like me, she says. I place a lot of emphasis on African-Americans with HIV because thats where HIV is now.
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Are you comfortable talking about return on investment? How about loss run analysis? Those business concepts may sound like someone elses job. But if you talk the language of the hospitals financial officers, you may win unprecedented support for your ergonomics program.
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A phlebotomist developed active TB and 56 employees tested positive for latent TB infection after a highly infectious patient spent three weeks on general medical wards before being placed in a negative pressure room.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced an initiative to emphasize hazard communication, an area that already is a routine part of inspections. Every inspection even those focused on a specific complaint includes a review of hazard communication and record keeping.
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Studies have associated workplace exposures to hazardous drugs with health effects such as skin rashes and adverse reproductive events (including infertility, spontaneous abortions, or congenital malformations) and possibly leukemia and other cancers.
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Nurses who prepare and administer chemotherapy agents in outpatient settings often dont use the proper gloves or other recommended personal protective equipment (PPE), according to a survey of oncology nurses. Furthermore, few nurses who handle chemotherapeutic drugs received health evaluations that included reproductive and cancer evaluation, the survey found.
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Current work practices are not adequate to protect health care workers from chemotherapeutic agents and other dangerous drugs, and hospitals need to be more vigilant in their efforts to prevent exposure, according to a hazard alert from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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CMS tightens rules for processing claims; Upcoming hospice educational events.
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Does the HIPAA security rule prohibit transmission of protected health information (PHI) by e-mail? Are health organizations responsible for the protection of unsolicited e-mails sent by patients? If an employee, other than field staff, works out of his or her home, either full-time or part-time (e.g., during maternity leave, on weekends or evenings, or as part of a telecommuting job description), do the HIPAA security regulations apply? If so, how do we ensure compliance?
