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If youre looking for information on how your bloodborne pathogen exposures compare to other facilities, a new book offers a compilation of information.
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On3 Lateral Transfer Device; TotaLift II Transfer Chair;TotaLift PTS; AirMatt Lateral Transfer System; and more.
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Is your state next? Laws requiring disclosure of individual hospital infection rates are sweeping the nation. Four states Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Missouri have passed infection rate disclosure laws, and 20 others have introduced bills.
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For the first time in more than 60 years, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta is hosting an independent conference distinct from the occupational medicine physicians in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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When a patient needs to be moved from a bed to a stretcher, do your nurses reach across for the draw sheet and pull? If so, theyre at risk for debilitating back injury.
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These are the overall rankings of lateral-transfer devices from a study by Andrea Baptiste and John Lloyd of the Patient Safety Center of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL.
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The draft tuberculosis guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked widely ranging comments with divergent opinions from those who think N95 filtering facepiece respirators are inadequate, to those who think they are unnecessary.
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Why cant N95 filtering facepiece respirators fit better? Amid the turmoil over annual fit-testing, employee health professionals are asking for better products and product information. It may be a while before they get them.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations hailed the enactment of federal patient safety legislation that will encourage the voluntary reporting of medical errors, serious adverse events, and their underlying causes.
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Hospitals are using questionnaires as a way to monitor the possible health effects on employees who work with chemotherapeutic agents. But there are no guidelines that tell hospitals what to ask or how to implement the program.
