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Half of all health care workers who work the night shift get less than six hours of sleep a day. They drink caffeine to stay alert, but many still struggle to keep from involuntarily dozing. And one in four night shift nurses resort to staying awake for at least 24 hours to adjust to changing schedules.
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An emerging SARS-like novel coronavirus may pose a particular threat for hospital outbreaks that could spread infections to both patients and health care workers.
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A mid concerns about the impact of fatigue on medical errors, the governing body of medical education sought to make sure the least experienced medical residents get the most sleep. But a new survey indicates that other residents and program supervisors believe the rules are just creating problems for other residents without improving medical education.
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A patient with influenza coughs. Viral particles fly across the room and linger in the air. A health care worker walks into the room and breathes in the invisible contaminant.
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Depression takes a toll on nurses and other health care workers.
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New patient handling standards from the American Nurses Association provide the first comprehensive guidelines that apply to all health care facilities.
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Just what is the risk of transmission from a coughing patient with influenza? Researchers still can't answer that question definitively, but airborne particles appear to play a greater role than previously believed.
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Health care workers in Boston are the first patients to test a new model of ambulatory care.
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Egg allergy should no longer prevent someone from receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine. A recombinant flu vaccine (Flublok by Protein Sciences Corp.) that is not produced with eggs will be available this fall for people between the ages of 18 and 49.
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Pertussis immunity wanes even one year after immunization with Tdap, so routine re-immunization of adults is not cost-effective, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded.