Hospitals must try to improve participation in influenza immunization of health care workers.
While getting your floors "hospital clean," you may inadvertently be exposing workers to a hazardous chemical that can cause respiratory, skin, and eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and even kidney or liver damage.
Promoting health is an obvious goal for a hospital; but often the efforts extend only outward, to the community, not internally to the hospital's own employees.
Signs are everywhere in a hospital: 'No Smoking. Authorized Personnel Only. Caution: Radiation.' So can one more sign protect nurses' backs?
The tedious job of tracking tuberculin skin tests for hundreds, or even thousands, of employees has ended for hospitals that rarely treat patients with tuberculosis.
Twenty-five years ago, when hospital employee health was synonymous with tuberculosis testing, hospital hazards received little attention, and AIDS was called gay-related immune deficiency, a group of California nurses joined together with a mission.
While safe patient handling is gaining momentum across the country, hospitals are also turning their attention to other causes of costly musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injuries.
Employees often feel uneasy about the confidentiality of information maintained by employee health, notes Marilyn Piek, RN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM, RMHC.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Pandemic Influenza Plan paints a dire scenario of sick patients flooding hospitals ...
Health care workers caring for infants should receive the new pertussis vaccine, according to the recommendation of a federal advisory panel.
