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"Hello. I'm Dr. John Jernigan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Your doctor has chosen to admit you to this facility because you need high-quality medical care. The health care providers here want to do everything they can to help you get well and to avoid complications.
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Every employee who gets a flu shot at McLeod Health in Florence, SC, walks away with a $20 bill. Yes, you heard that right. Twenty bucks for rolling up their sleeve and getting the vaccine that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Joint Commission, and others say will help prevent the spread of flu to vulnerable patients.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified these strategies for reducing slips and falls in hospitals:
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Designated competent and responsible observers can readily make periodic inspections to identify and evaluate workplace security hazards and threats of workplace violence.
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At every quarterly safety meeting at Providence Health and Services facilities in Portland, OR, employee health and safety professionals pay careful attention to reports of violent incidents. What they learn may help them prevent future assaults.
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When employees complain of back pain, they often receive the conventional wisdom about how to get relief and hasten their recovery. Rest. Ice the area. Take some pain meds. Unfortunately, that conventional wisdom may be wrong.
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As health care workers age, their risk of serious injury from slips, trips, and falls rises.
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California may once again be setting a trend that could influence protection of health care workers who are exposed to infectious diseases this time with a bold proposed standard to prevent aerosol transmissible diseases.
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The problem is a common one: Patient handling leads to back strain and pain and even to serious injury. The solution is less obvious: Empower health care workers to analyze the tasks and come up with their own corrective plan.
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When removing personal protective equipment, it's important for health care workers to realize that the gowns, gloves, masks, and goggles are contaminated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have slightly different protocols, but both are designed to prevent health care workers from becoming ill from contaminated PPE.
