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Some people have raised the question of whether booster shots are unethical from a global perspective, and even counterproductive to ending the pandemic because highly mutated variants will continue to arise in unvaccinated patients.
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With omicron causing much higher breakthrough infection rates than previous COVID-19 variants, there is concern infected healthcare workers must isolate amid an ongoing nursing shortage. The previous recommendation for 10 days has been changed to seven, and shorter than that under certain conditions.
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In what could be a precedent for similar state lawsuits claiming the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate will cause an exodus of healthcare workers, a federal judge has rejected such arguments as “speculative” and “hearsay” in denying Florida a preliminary injunction to stop the requirement.
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During a webinar hosted by the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare, a nurse recalled an injury she suffered while lifting a patient. Safe patient handling equipment must be available and accessible for nurses.
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Vaunted for its medical and technological prowess, the American healthcare system has a critical blind spot that has been widely exposed during the pandemic: Employee wellness.
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Despite healthcare facilities being overwhelmed with COVID-19 in 2020, the overall rates of sharps injuries and mucocutaneous exposures to healthcare workers remained relatively stable, the International Safety Center reports.
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Citing the national shortage of nurses and other issues, 22 states have joined in two separate lawsuits demanding the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services halt their mandate of COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers.
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Ubiquitous employee temperature screening and symptom questions upon entry during the pandemic have not yielded much success in identifying sick healthcare workers or reducing the long-standing problem of presenteeism. The reasons workers come to work sick are complex.
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Despite a historically mild flu season in 2019-2020, followed by the most recent mild season in the Southern Hemisphere, public health officials are warning of a possible severe flu outbreak on the horizon.
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A physician shares details about his journey back to patient-focused care, which was inspired partly by an epiphany he experienced with a comatose child.
