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Wellness Programs can Improve Health, Reduce Cost for HCWs with Diabetes
Diabetes in healthcare workers is a major driver of medical insurance costs, as the chronic blood sugar disorder can set off a range of health problems and increase risk of stroke and heart disease.
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OSHA Focus on Safe Patient Handling
While there is a general consensus that safe patient handling programs nationally suffer from a lack of implementation and enforcement, employee health professionals should be aware that OSHA is taking a close look at the issue when they inspect healthcare facilities.
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Healthcare Workers Remain At Risk of Patient Handling Injuries
With proposed federal legislation in political limbo, too many nurses and their colleagues at the bedside remain at risk of life-altering injuries as they try to care for an increasing population of acutely ill, heavier patients without safe handling equipment.
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Compressed Work Shifts Put Nurses at Risk
Nurses appear to be at higher risk of injury as they suffer a kind of cumulative fatigue and diminishment in balance and reactions working “compressed” shifts, researchers report.
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GAO Report Takes OSHA to Task on Healthcare Violence
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ineffective enforcement programs for issuing citations and following up warnings for workplace violence in healthcare, the U.S. General Accountability Office reports.
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UK: 60% Wear Gloves When Not Warranted
A U.K. study that included interviews with healthcare workers found workers wearing gloves for routine tasks like making a bed. Others had “no particular reason” to be wearing gloves, but nevertheless were doing so.
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To Stop Needlesticks, Educate, Communicate, and Investigate
The Exposure Study of Occupational Practice authors recommend that employee health professionals consider best practices to prevent needlesticks and other exposures to staff.
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Zika Transmitted by Needlestick to Lab Worker
The question of whether Zika virus can be transmitted via needlestick is no longer hypothetical.
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Has the Needlestick Problem Been Solved? AOHP Study Answers a Resounding ‘No’
Bloodborne pathogen exposures to healthcare workers were higher than expected and not declining in incidence rates, according to the latest results from the Exposure Study of Occupational Practice.
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Staffing Woes Endanger Workers and Patients
Inappropriate staffing – either in terms of numbers or a mismatch between the level of caregiver and the acuity of patients — is a chronic issue in healthcare that puts both patients and staff at higher risk.