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Who says change takes a long time to implement? Certainly not Susan Peach, MBA, BSN, a division chief nursing officer at LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, TN.
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Heres a safety equation that doesnt compute well: A high risk of injury with a low awareness of hazards.
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Flexibility will be the guiding principle in upcoming recommendations on health care workers who were vaccinated against hepatitis B as infants.
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The most dangerous thing some of your employees may do each day is just sitting at their desk. Sedentary behavior long hours of sitting can increase metabolic and cardiovascular risks, even in someone who gets regular exercise on most days.
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When a coronavirus recently caused two cases of severe respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, it was hard not to think of the challenging and deadly experience with another coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.
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About one-third of health care workers fail to get their annual flu shot. But look behind those numbers and youll find the true disparity: Barely more than half of long-term care workers received the flu vaccine last year, while the rate for hospital employees reached an all-time high of 77%.
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Health department rules are broadening the scope of mandatory influenza vaccination policies, even as critics assail the policies as punitive and not science-based.
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Your influenza vaccination campaign is coming into the public spotlight, and that means more pressure than ever on the logistics of administering and tracking those vaccinations.
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When you work to fix one problem in workplace safety, you may end up reducing other hazards to both workers and patients.