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To protect health care workers during a pandemic, you'll need more than a stockpile of N95s and a fit-testing protocol. You'll need well-trained health care workers who understand how and when to use the respirators.
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It's hard to imagine a scenario of greater emotion, conflic, and potential risk than when a mental health worker visits the home of a mentally unstable person to evaluate them for involuntary psychiatric commitment.
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Has the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration become a weak-willed agency that fails to protect workers from many modern-day workplace hazards? That was the resonating question as the Democratic-controlled Congress bore down on the agency with oversight hearings.
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In a pandemic influenza outbreak, your employees will be your most critical resource. That's why hospitals should act now to identify key personnel, provide employee training, and ensure the supply of adequate personal protective equipment.
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If a pandemic strikes, masks can be used along with "social distancing" and hand hygiene to protect against community transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced.
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With an ever-expanding range of hazardous drugs, hospitals must identify employees at risk and conduct medical surveillance at least annually, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the minimum elements of a medical surveillance program for hazardous drugs are included in this article.
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You may be able to boost your influenza vaccination rates by requiring health care workers to sign mandatory declination statements. But declinations themselves may put a negative tone to the annual campaign.
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Truck drivers do it. So do airline pilots and nuclear power plant workers. Should health care workers also be subject to random drug tests?
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In the battle against nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococ-cus aureus (MRSA), health care workers are more than just potential carriers.
