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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data.
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Three Nurses Acquire Hepatitis A from Transplant Patient
A highly unusual chain of events led to three nurses being infected with hepatitis A virus from a pediatric transplant patient who contracted it from the organ donor.
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Physician Suicide: Stigma Still Holds Sway
Like so many stories of suicide, this one begins with a haunting memory and an unanswerable question. Why would a young student, having passed the rigorous tests and trials to get into medical school and about to begin the education and career that is his seeming life’s purpose, go home for Thanksgiving break and kill himself?
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AOHP Urges OSHA to Pursue ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Violence Reg
As the comment period closes and efforts to promulgate a standard to protect healthcare workers against violence begin, OSHA should broaden its approach and take a “zero-tolerance” stance against all forms of assaults and verbal threats, urges the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.
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Mumps Outbreaks Widely Reported
Given the current outbreaks of mumps in the U.S. and the similar surge in measles the last few years, the last thing employee health professionals need is people avoiding the MMR vaccine and not immunizing their children.
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Tuberculosis Proving Difficult to Reduce in U.S.
With the recent commemoration of World TB Day, the CDC reported that tuberculosis continues to decline in the United States, but not on a pace to reach the goal of tuberculosis eradication.
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The Ethical Quandary of Moral Distress
Clinicians need to cultivate “moral efficacy” — the ability to recognize, deliberate, and act in ways that are aligned with their personal and professional ethical standards.
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Expect Zika Return, Reinforce HCW Safety
Employee health professionals should prepare for the return of Zika virus, as the CDC expects the mosquito-borne infection threat to return to the U.S. as the warmer months arrive.
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Canada Faces a Surge in Healthcare Violence
While OSHA continues to promulgate a violence prevention regulation, our neighbors to the north are dealing with a similar problem of threatened healthcare workers.
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Training for Toxic Work Culture Should Start in Nursing School
While often seen as separate and disturbingly distinct, incivility, bullying, and violence in healthcare are actually connected across a common culture of toxicity.