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Employers are unreliable stewards of their workers' health. Most hospitals and other large employers offer wellness programs, but they struggle to engage the employees who need it most.
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With historically low rates of tuberculosis in the United States and ongoing challenges with TB tests, employee health professionals are understandably frustrated. But the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has a message: Remain vigilant to prevent occupational risk.
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Most of the positive results in routine tuberculosis screening of health care workers are false positives. That statistical artifact is creating headaches for employee health professionals as they try to find the best TB testing method and struggle with unexpected results.
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2014 Certification Update
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Patient access leaders at Lake Forest (IL) Hospital increased collections by 79% and have set a goal to increase collections by another 10% in 2014.
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Imagine health as a team activity. What matters most isn't whether one person achieves personal health goals, but how well everyone does as a group.
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The best thing you can do for patients may be to take care of your hardest working employees. Burnout not only affects the health and well being of health care workers, but it also leads to medical errors, higher infection rates, and injuries, says J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University in Durham, NC, and director of the Patient Safety Center for the Duke University Health System.
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Next season's trivalent influenza vaccines will contain the same strains as this year's vaccine but it's still important to get the annual flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in March showed a correlation between patients who had high post-surgical pain and low patient satisfaction scores.
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If you had to guess what department Sara Bohling, MSN, RN, APRN-CCNS, Certified Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, worked in at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, NE, it would probably be pretty easy. She has a soothing voice meant for calming infants, singing songs, and telling stories.
