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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.
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Patient access areas are increasing seeing patients with high-deductible health plans. Significant revenue is at stake if the unmet deductible is not collected.
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Many patients will be unable to pay
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Customer service is the number one skill for patient access applicants, according to patient access leaders.
