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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data.
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Three Nurses Acquire Hepatitis A from Transplant Patient
A highly unusual chain of events led to three nurses being infected with hepatitis A virus from a pediatric transplant patient who contracted it from the organ donor.
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ANA Prepares for Return of Ebola – or Anything Else
As a result of the Ebola outbreak, the American Nurses Association has entered into training and resource collaborations with both the CDC and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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Mumps Outbreaks Widely Reported
Given the current outbreaks of mumps in the U.S. and the similar surge in measles the last few years, the last thing employee health professionals need is people avoiding the MMR vaccine and not immunizing their children.
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Tuberculosis Proving Difficult to Reduce in U.S.
With the recent commemoration of World TB Day, the CDC reported that tuberculosis continues to decline in the United States, but not on a pace to reach the goal of tuberculosis eradication.
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The Ethical Quandary of Moral Distress
Clinicians need to cultivate “moral efficacy” — the ability to recognize, deliberate, and act in ways that are aligned with their personal and professional ethical standards.
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Expect Zika Return, Reinforce HCW Safety
Employee health professionals should prepare for the return of Zika virus, as the CDC expects the mosquito-borne infection threat to return to the U.S. as the warmer months arrive.
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Training for Toxic Work Culture Should Start in Nursing School
While often seen as separate and disturbingly distinct, incivility, bullying, and violence in healthcare are actually connected across a common culture of toxicity.
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C. Difficile Reduced 75% With Targeted Interventions
A hospital in Medford, OR, reduced its rates of C. difficile infections by three-quarters with a targeted approach intended to identify exactly what strategy is the most effective after previous attempts left hospital leaders wondering which of several interventions had worked.
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EH Urged To Take Annual AOHP Exposure Survey
Employee health professionals are being urged to enter their 2016 exposure data into the annual Exposure Survey of Trends in Occupational Practice by the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.