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Identify hazards. Take steps to address them. Train employees in safety measures. Evaluate your program and make improvements.
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Everyone wants to have high rates of health care worker influenza immunization, but just who gets counted in their numbers?
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As this issue went to press, more stringent standards for influenza immunization of hospital workers were under consideration by the Joint Commission.
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Even when health care workers return to work after being ill with influenza, they still may be shedding viable virus. That is a finding from an analysis of a small outbreak of pandemic H1N1 in the fall of 2009.
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The carrot and the stick have worked in Washington state to reduce the number and severity of safe patient handling injuries.
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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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The California regulation, which became effective in 1991, includes the following provisions:
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At Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, every health care worker, contractor, vendor, and volunteer needs to be tracked for the hospital's strict mandatory influenza vaccination policy.
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The National Quality Forum has a time-limited (pilot) measurement of influenza vaccination coverage of healthcare personnel.
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At Fairview Northland Health Services in Princeton, MN, when patients learn they will have a large out-of-pocket responsibility, patient access staff work with them to explain their payment options, says Steph Collins, manager of patient access.