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Hospitals must try to improve participation in influenza immunization of health care workers.
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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.
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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.
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Signs are everywhere in a hospital: 'No Smoking. Authorized Personnel Only. Caution: Radiation.' So can one more sign protect nurses' backs?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Employees often feel uneasy about the confidentiality of information maintained by employee health, notes Marilyn Piek, RN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM, RMHC.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Pandemic Influenza Plan paints a dire scenario of sick patients flooding hospitals ...
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Health care workers caring for infants should receive the new pertussis vaccine, according to the recommendation of a federal advisory panel.
