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Antiviral resistance of one strain of influenza has altered this year's strategies for seasonal influenza. It also highlights mutability of the virus and the need for careful pandemic planning, federal health officials say.
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Have you stockpiled enough antiviral medication to provide doses for several hundred (or thousand) employees for about 80 days? Does your stockpile include more than one antiviral medication? Can you rotate it so it never expires?
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When a local public health department in California opened packages of FluVirin pre-filled syringes to start the flu immunization campaign, the vaccine administrators were stunned. Contrary to federal law and regulation, the syringes had a fixed needle with no safety device.
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Occupational health nurses are increasing their focus on outcomes and using information technology to meet their goals, according to a survey of some 2,000 occupational health nurses by the American Board of Occupational Health Nurses (ABOHN) in Hinsdale, IL. About one-quarter of the respondents were hospital-based.
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Do more with less. Comply with regulations; manage workers compensation costs; and create new injury prevention programs. But, by the way, were cutting your staff.
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Promising that surveys will become more streamlined and patient-focused, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations unveiled a new accreditation process, set to begin in 2004.
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In the new staffing effectiveness standard, which became effective July 2002, surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, will look at actual vs. planned staffing in organizations.
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Employee injury rates are gaining attention as one sign of nurse staffing problems. As concerns rise over a growing nursing shortage, employee health professionals have an unprecedented opportunity to link patient safety with worker safety.
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he Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations.
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More than 50 patients were infected with hepatitis C at an Oklahoma pain management clinic when a nurse reused a syringe and needle for injections into a heparin lock of the patients IV line. The case, which is still under investigation, represents the largest known nosocomial transmission of hepatitis C in the United States, says Michael Crutcher, MD, state epidemiologist with the Oklahoma State Department of Health in Oklahoma City.