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New Normal in Occupational Health: Telework, Equity, Humility
What is the post-pandemic “new normal” in occupational health? Changes that seem here to stay for employee health professionals and their colleagues include telework and telehealth.
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Hospitals, Healthcare Workers Are ‘Soft Targets’ for Shooters
A hospital is not a fortress barricaded against violent entry. Quite the opposite — its raison d’etre is to “admit” people and heal them. But it has become increasingly apparent that mass shooters and their violent ilk see healthcare facilities, much like schools, as soft targets.
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Hospitals Work to Prevent Patient Violence
A series of violent attacks on personnel has prompted hospitals in San Diego to create a task force to address this serious problem familiar to hospital leaders across the country. The task force works with local law enforcement to develop tactics to keep healthcare workers safe.
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AHA Lists Top Drivers of Suicide Risk in Healthcare Workers
For employee health professionals looking for more resources and tactics to prevent suicide in healthcare workers, the American Hospital Association has posted a free, downloadable report that identifies three driving factors in self-harm ideation.
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Is There a Doctor in the House?
With high levels of physician burnout, demographic changes, and increasing demand for Medicare by an aging nation, the shortage of physicians may reach more than 100,000 in the next decade, the American Medical Association reported.
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Higher Risk of Suicide in RNs, Support Workers
The authors of a recent study identified an increased risk of suicide in registered nurses, health technicians, and healthcare support workers in the United States, compared to non-healthcare workers.
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The End of the Tether: Healthcare Workers in Mental Health Turmoil
Some healthcare workers are hanging by a thread as thin as a suture. Others have fallen — due to COVID-19, workplace violence, or by their own hand. Many have fled healthcare as if it were a burning building. Perhaps, more appropriately, a burned-out building. Too many healthcare workers today are described as anything but well. Mentally, they are at the end of the tether: burned out, morally injured, compassion fatigued, with some depressed to the point of suicidal ideation.
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ICU Staff Report Severe Moral Distress, But Resources Are Underused
There is growing awareness of the prevalence of moral distress in healthcare — and the costs in terms of burnout and staff turnover. However, solutions to this problem remain somewhat elusive.
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Current Healthcare Workers Might Face Another Pandemic
As evidence mounts indicating that climate change is driving emerging infections, healthcare workers may face another pandemic in their lifetime — possibly in their current careers.
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Occupational Health: Outbreak Investigation 101
In an outbreak situation that affects healthcare workers and patients, occupational health can strike a critical partnership with the infection control department to rapidly resolve the situation.