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By streamlining your pre-placement screening and eliminating a full medical exam, you can save time and money without missing any important information. That was the conclusion of a study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of eye protection when health care workers may be at risk of acquiring infectious diseases through ocular exposure.
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Amid the debate over respiratory protection for health care workers, another form of personal protective equipment has received little attention. Goggles are an important component of infection control, as health care workers are commonly exposed to infectious disease hazards through the mucous membranes of the eye.
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These programs were identified by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, as needing a respiratory protection program.
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This is what most student nurses still are being taught about lifting: Have the proper body mechanics. Put your arms under the patients armpits. Rock on the balls of your feet and lift and propel the patient.
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Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC, isnt satisfied with a 48% reduction in needlesticks or a 53% decline in the recordable injury rate. In fact, Self Regional has raised the bar much higher than that. Our overall goal is to be safest hospital in the nation, says Mary Margaret Jackson, CPHQ, director of Performance Outcome Services.
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Boosting health care worker flu vaccination has been tough during a vaccine shortage. But commitment to this goal hasnt waned for two hospitals that are launching mandatory vaccination programs.
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The TB doctor stood and made her plea. Annual fit-testing is a waste of time and resources, she said. She and her staff dont even wear masks and they dont become infected, the doctor added.