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Take It From Survivors: Here’s What to Do When Disaster Strikes
Case manager leaders found that preparing staff to be mobilized or available via phone was crucial during Hurricane Harvey.
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Hurricane Harvey Was a Disaster Preparedness Test for Case Managers
After Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, leaving Houston underwater, case management leaders at area healthcare organizations found it challenging to locate all of their employees to ensure their safety.
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AOHP Seeks to Raise Profile
The Association for Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare is planning to raise its national profile and reassess its chapter organization and structure. These goals come as part of an update of the AOHP Strategic Plan, as the three-year run of the former plan expired in 2017.
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Rare But Real Threat of Occupational HIV Remains
It is accepted now with little fanfare how safer needle devices, post-exposure prophylaxis, and other improvements and interventions have reduced occupational HIV infection to a vanishing point. This wasn’t always the case.
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Researchers: Flu Spread by Normal Breathing
The unwelcome news in the midst of bad flu season is that influenza spreads easier than previously thought, possibly in the very breath you take.
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Plan Ahead for the Injured Returning to Work
Injured healthcare workers returning to work may need alternate duties as they continue healing, so planning ahead in that regard is highly recommended,
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Finding Joy Through Meaningful Work
After a demanding shift rife with unexpected stress and complications, the last word healthcare workers may use to describe their job is “joyful.” Nevertheless, researchers who study healthcare work culture say such an emotional state is possible. The joy that comes from meaningful, important work is a tonic to burnout and compassion fatigue.
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Meaningful Recognition Fights Nurse Burnout
Nurses demonstrate clinical skill and patient compassion so routinely that it is little wonder they are designated the most trusted profession year after year. But such routine excellence can have its toll in terms of burnout and “compassion fatigue.”
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#MeToo in Medicine? Sexual Harassment in Healthcare
It will surprise few employee health professionals that healthcare is no exception to the shocking incidents of sexual harassment being reported nationally in various industries by the #MeToo women’s movement.
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Which Compliance Issues Might ASCs Focus on for 2018?
Same-Day Surgery asked for more information about compliance and regulations in 2018 in a Q&A with Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CASC, CNOR, director of education and clinical affairs at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association in Alexandria, VA.