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FDA concerned about healthcare workers’ constant exposure to antiseptics
At any given time there must be well over a million nurses and other female healthcare workers of childbearing age protecting patients by killing transient bacteria on the hands with alcohol hand rubs.
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NIOSH: Key steps to reduce respiratory risk
The Cleaning and Disinfecting in Healthcare Working Group of NIOSH’s National Occupational Research Agenda offered advice about reducing respiratory hazards related to cleaning and disinfection in hospitals.
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Rapid onset of asthma in healthcare workers
The following case reports provide examples of work-related asthma from environmental surface cleaning and disinfecting exposures in healthcare.
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Can you kill microbes without hurting healthcare workers?
In the battle against healthcare-associated infections, workers have unwittingly become collateral damage, developing skin irritation, headaches, and even asthma from cleaners and disinfectants.
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Health care stress: It’s rampant, but employee health interventions supported by scant evidence
Stress reduction is a key employee health challenge, and intuitively one would think that any of the common approaches would help de-stress healthcare workers. It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to quantify the effects of the various interventions.
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Norovirus may spread by airborne route — are current precautions enough to protect HCWs?
Noroviruses — a leading cause of highly disruptive gastroenteritis outbreaks that often include infected healthcare workers — may transmit through the air, meaning currently recommended contact precautions may not be completely effective at stopping spread from patients to staff, researchers report in a fascinating new study.
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Nurses association pushes for federal, state nurse-to-patient ratio laws
When healthcare employers fail to recognize the association between RN staffing and patient outcomes, laws and regulations become necessary, the American Nursing Association argues.
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California staffing law reduces occ injuries, nurses in other states fighting for similar laws
A 2004 California law mandating specific nurse-to-patient staffing standards in acute care hospitals has significantly lowered job-related injuries and illnesses for both registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, researchers report.
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Could a focus on patient safety drive adoption of lifting and handling programs in health care?
There are many barriers to getting safe patient handling equipment at the bedside when needed, but you may not have considered that the altruistic nature of nurses could occasionally be one of them.
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OSHA targets high-injury hospitals
Hospitals, be forewarned: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is preparing an enforcement push targeting the high rate of injuries in healthcare.