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Nurses who work long hours are more likely to be obese, as stress and sleep deprivation affect their health habits, according to researchers at the University of Maryland.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, wants its employees to live well and work well. What does that mean? The answer is visible throughout the hospital.
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Are your patient lifts injuring your employees?
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This influenza immunization season may be one of the most challenging for the nations hospitals as they face a new requirement to track every employee, licensed practitioner, student and volunteer.
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It takes a small step to make a big change. That is the essential truth behind a motivational method that is reshaping wellness promotion.
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In a Science blog on Sleep and Work, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended employers consider these issues:
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The hospital of the future may have small rooms on each floor for night shift staff to take energizing naps. With an eye on fatigue as a major safety concern, the new draft version of hospital construction guidelines includes a requirement for staff rest areas, or nap rooms.
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Failure to have the right firewalls on your hospitals electronic medical record (EMR) to protect employees health information could be a violation of federal law.
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An alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration puts new clout behind the push for surgeons to use blunt suture needles to close fascia and muscle and to reduce sharps injuries in the operating room.
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According to the Food and Drug Administration, user facilities must submit a medical device adverse event report to the agency and the manufacturer if a device causes or contributes to a patient death or serious injury. Manufacturers and importers must file an adverse event report if they become aware that one of their devices caused or contributed to a serious injury or death, or if a device malfunction occurred that would be likely to cause or contribute to a serious injury or death.
