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Student March Lends Momentum to Healthcare Violence Regulation
Antiviolence efforts to protect healthcare workers have been underway with limited success for years, so the latest federal bill in that regard would normally be seen as another well-intentioned, but ultimately futile, effort. However, things are not normal.
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Occupational Threat to Dental Workers?
Looking over the medical records at a specialty clinic in Virginia, public health investigators have uncovered a cluster of dental workers with a progressive lung disease that appears to be occupationally acquired.
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The Long and Winding Road
Travel nurses who routinely relocate and work at new facilities on an interim basis face some employee health problems unique to their situation. Others are slightly different manifestations of common issues in nursing.
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Johns Hopkins Boosts Employee Health With CDC Scorecard
The CDC’s Worksite Health ScoreCard effectively measures workplace wellness efforts and can highlight areas of needed improvement, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine reported.
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To Care Is Human: Collaborative Tackles Toll on Healthcare
Workers
Healthcare workers are at increased risk of burnout and depression, as a confluence of factors have created a toxic brew of occupational stressors.
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Accentuate the Positive
An epidemic of burnout in healthcare workers has been widely reported — but, these researchers suggest, perhaps the glass is half full.
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Heal the Clinician, Protect the Patient
Nurses with physical and mental health issues were more likely to self-report medical errors, showing a clear link between clinician wellness and patient safety, a new study reports.
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Hand Hygiene: Just Do It
Healthcare workers who ignore the constant admonition to wash their hands between patients may inadvertently spread multidrug-resistant superbugs while drawing a citation from a visiting Joint Commission surveyor.
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Nursing Group Calls for National Action on Shootings
Gun violence has blurred the line between healthcare concerns and public health, as recurrent mass shootings now have a nursing group calling for national action to prevent the attacks.
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Flu Vaccine Myths and Conspiracies
In another falsehood pushed by antivaccine advocates, there has been an erroneous claim on the internet that the flu vaccine has somehow “caused” the current severe influenza season.