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Safe patient handling should be standard practice, not best practice. That is the message behind new, draft standards issued by the American Nurses Association (ANA).
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About one-third of American adults are obese. If trends continue on their current trajectory, by 2030, about half of all American adults will be obese.
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Health care workers arent actually very healthy. They have higher rates of heart disease and asthma than workers in all other sectors, and they are the most likely to have functional limitations or to ever have had cancer, according to an analysis of 1997-2007 data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
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In a futuristic paradigm, health care is not sick care. It is a continuum that provides acute care, rehabilitation and wellness, and one that encompasses both hospital patients and employees.
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Do more, but dont expect more resources. Moneys tight.
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There's more work to do to keep health care workers safe from needlesticks. That was the primary message of an online awareness event by Safe in Common, an organization promoting sharps safety.
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In a move that raises the profile of employee health, The Joint Commission accrediting agency is expanding its definition of a "sentinel event" to include serious injury to health care workers.
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When you get on an airplane, you expect layers of precautions to prevent any error that could lead to failure and injury. You demand the same or even greater care from the nearby nuclear power plant. And now, you can expect that serious attention to safety from a growing number of hospitals.
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Nurses often don't know when or how to use respirators, and the fault may lie with their education or the lack of it.
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The day after the horrific Dec. 14, 2012 shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, CT, a visitor who was reportedly upset over the cardiac care his wife received shot two employees and a police officer at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, AL before he was killed by another officer on the scene.
