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As measles cases head for record case count, employee health must ensure HCW immunity
Amid what could well be another annual record for measles in the post-vaccination era by the end of 2015, employee health professionals must ensure that staff are immunized to avoid the chaos that can ensue when a single undiagnosed case enters a hospital.
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Ebola fear and stigma of health care workers echoes early days of AIDS in the 1980s
After the index case of Ebola in the U.S. died and two nurses who treated him in a Dallas hospital became infected, there was an outbreak of irrationality that spread as rapidly as any epidemic.
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Bioethics panel: Ebola quarantines of asymptomatic health workers ‘morally wrong’
The misguided attempts to quarantine asymptomatic health care workers returning from fighting Ebola in West Africa last year were unethical and counterproductive, a federal bioethics group concluded in a recent report
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Ebola training makes all the difference for health care workers in terms of stress control
The nightmarish experience of treating an Ebola patient described by American nurse Nina Pham, RN, is in sharp contrast to the surprisingly controlled stress levels experienced by a well-trained group of health care workers in Germany.
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Nurse occupationally infected with Ebola blasts hospital corporation in lawsuit allegations
A lawsuit by Nina Pham, RN, against Texas Health Resources (THR) includes some explosive allegations regarding her occupational Ebola infection after caring for an infected patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in early October 2014.
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‘Do no harm’ — with high reliability initiatives Joint Commission seeks better pt, HCW safety
When they take the Hippocratic oath, doctors vow to “first, do no harm,” and some hospitals are taking that sentiment seriously. As with the aviation and nuclear power industries, which have zero tolerance for accidents, the hospitals seek to be “high-reliability” organizations that are obsessed with safety.
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Ebola nurse lawsuit alleges inadequate protection ‘negligent’
Hospitals are rethinking their approach to employee health and infection control.
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Nurse fatigue a ‘huge’ threat to patient safety, but can be addressed
When fatigue is addressed in the healthcare workplace, attention often goes first to physicians and particularly medical residents who are sleep-deprived and overworked. Increasingly, risk managers are focusing on the patient safety threats posed by nurses and other staff members who are too tired to do their jobs properly.
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New type of ED unit focuses on the most critically ill patients, decompressing ED
Much of the discussion surrounding emergency medicine seems to focus on how to keep lower-acuity patients out of the ED, or at least how to move them through to discharge faster. While it is true that many EDs see a high percentage of low-acuity or fast-track patients, there are also EDs that are overwhelmed with patients at the other end of the acuity spectrum. The University of Michigan Health System’s (UMHS) adult ED in Ann Arbor is a case in point.
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Case management can work hand-in-hand with patient advocacy
As health systems, payers, employers, and even unions look for case management-style models for improving their populations’ health, some are hiring RNs to serve in a patient advocate role.