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After St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, CA, started its readmission reduction program, the community hospitals 30-day readmission rate for all diagnoses dropped by 37% and the 90-day readmission rate declined by 43%.
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In February, Evelyn Lynch, a 70-year-old nurse at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, was removing a catheter from a patient when he suddenly knocked her to the ground and began beating and stomping on her.
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Reams of surveys have documented the frequency of verbal and physical assaults in the nations emergency rooms.
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The risk of violence simmers in behavioral health units across the country but it is possible to defuse that tension and prevent incidents through frequent community meetings between staff and patients.
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After hospital workers encounter workplace violence, their medication use goes up, but there is no change in their visits to mental health counselors, according to a new study. Instead, they may be receiving much-needed emotional support from employee assistance programs.
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For the past 10 years, the United States has been wrestling with a resurgence of pertussis as outbreaks strike in different states. In 2013, cases subsided in most of Minnesota, but spiked in Texas and North Carolina, for example. California reported 2,372 cases, 132 hospitalizations and one death of a two-month-old.
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A large Canadian study of 3,275 health care workers found that the decision to receive the vaccine for seasonal or pandemic (H1N1) influenza was most influenced by their concern for their own health.
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Canadian researchers found a variety of key motivators and barriers to health care workers becoming vaccinated to prevent seasonal or pandemic influenza.
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Nurses are at high risk of stress caused by work-family conflict (WFC) partly because of the physical and emotional demands of their long shifts. One solution could be to permit some worker self-scheduling, an expert says.
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There is no magic template for initiating a self-scheduling practice, but there are some strategies hospital employee health departments could employ that will help reduce health care workers work-family conflict (WFC) stress.
