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As concern grows over antibiotic-resistant organisms, health care workers never have been under greater scrutiny for their compliance with hand hygiene.
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Don't get too comfortable with your current safety sharps. Failing to keep up with new technology could make you vulnerable to a citation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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When Peace Health opens its new hospital in Eugene, OR, it will have the latest and greatest technology, private rooms, and attractive décor.
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In the world of tuberculosis screening, sometimes an unfortunate series of events leads down the path toward inappropriate treatment.
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Verbal abuse, threats, assaults from combative or disoriented patients or emotionally distraught family members — those occurrences are so common in hospitals that many nurses seem to feel it's just "part of the job."
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Moving patients safely isn't just a way to protect workers. It also improves the mobility of patients while preventing falls — core components of patient safety and satisfaction.
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The moment a nurse tries to help a heavy-set, medically fragile patient stand and walk is fraught with risk. With one miscalculation, the patient can fall, and the nurse or the patient — or both — may be seriously injured. If the patient falls, the hospital could have a lawsuit on its hands for failing to use mechanical assist devices that are readily available.
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The life of a home health nurse is filled with variety, independence, flexibility — and all too often, back pain. While hospitals are implementing safe lifting programs in their facilities, the home health nurse or aide travels from home to home and faces hazards the floor nurse couldn't imagine.
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No new confirmed cases of occupationally acquired HIV have been reported since 2000. The hepatitis B vaccine has led to a dramatic reduction in new occupationally related cases. But the risk of transmission of disease from bloodborne pathogens to health care workers remains very real — a risk that isn't limited to hepatitis and HIV.
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Your employees have devoted their lives to caring for others, but unfortunately, they often aren't very good at taking care of their own health. They may be sedentary, or obese, or they have undiagnosed hypertension or high cholesterol. Those health risk factors equate to rising medical costs and a greater risk of injury.
