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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an adverse event can be causally attributed to vaccine more readily if one of the following is true.
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How ready are hospitals to respond to an act of terrorism that results in contaminated patients and mass casualties? Preparedness experts worry that the smallpox vaccination program may be diverting resources from other types of emergency capability.
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When Lise Borel, DMD, developed symptoms of a severe latex allergy in 1994, she was barely aware of the risks associated with the gloves and powder. Today, thanks in part to her advocacy efforts through the organization, ELASTIC of Torrington, CT, latex allergy is widely recognized as a major occupational health hazard for health care workers.
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The following 14 characteristics have been identified as key elements of magnet hospitals.
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You have been or possibly been exposed to a hazardous substance. For your own health and safety as well as others, you must be thoroughly cleaned before we can safely treat you.
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Health care workers should be tested for hepatitis C infection within two to eight weeks after exposure, an expert panel has recommended. Although the panel doesnt take a position on early treatment of hepatitis C, early testing offers that option.
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Exposures to bloodborne pathogens can be frightening. Our experience at the PEPline, however, is that the health care workers fears can be substantially greater than the real risk of transmission. Educating the health care worker about the actual risk usually provides genuine reassurance and prevents unrealistic concern
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Back injuries are second only to the common cold as a cause of absenteeism. And they are more than four times more common in health care than in other industries. After noting those facts, a new web resource offers basic information about ergonomics and links to dozens of other resources.
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Caution prevailed over urgency as hospitals slowly began implementing the smallpox vaccination program in February. By taking extra safeguards and strictly limiting the health care workers receiving the vaccine, they hoped to avoid the adverse effects associated with the vaccine.
