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Depression takes a toll on nurses and other health care workers.
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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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A novel strain of norovirus is posing new challenges for hospitals and underscores the importance of vigilant hand hygiene and environmental cleaning.
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There is predictability in unpredictable violence. Clear warning signs emerge as a patient progresses from unhappy to agitated to aggressive, and health care workers can learn to defuse the situation before an incident turns violent.
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The most dangerous patient handling task is also the most frequent and the most mundane. Nurses and nursing aides reposition patients throughout their shift, and that repositioning often leads to back and shoulder injuries. By focusing on strategies to reduce the risk, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis demonstrated that those injuries can be reduced dramatically.
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This years influenza season spread fever and chills across the country, but for hospital employee health professionals, it was just one big headache. A new requirement to report influenza vaccination rates proved time-consuming and challenging for many EHPs.
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As concern grows about fatigue and its impact on patient safety, 17 states have enacted laws or regulations to restrict mandatory overtime. But that alone may not reduce nurses work hours or even end the use of mandatory overtime.
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Nurses suffer from depression at twice the rate as the general population, a problem that contributes to nurse burnout, low productivity and staff turnover, nursing researchers say.
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