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Lift teams aren't just for patient handling. As the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento discovered, the same concept can reduce injuries for other workers who must transfer heavy loads.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the OR.
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In January, a health care worker who worked in the maternity ward, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nursery and psychiatric ward of St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.
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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.
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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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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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If you were frustrated by the slow delivery of influenza vaccine last fall, public health officials have a message for you: Get used to it.
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Once again, a trendsetter in occupational health, California has created a draft standard on aerosol transmissible diseases that would allow biannual fit-testing of N95-filtering facepiece respirators until at least 2012 but would require the use of powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) during high-hazard procedures.
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Hospitals face possible citation for failing to use a rapid HIV test after a bloodborne pathogen exposure, according to a letter of interpretation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Grueling schedules and sleep deprivation long have been hallmarks of medical residency. But with a growing number of studies linking sleep deprivation to medical errors and worker injuries, pressure is building to rethink the method of medical education.