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Its time to liberate yourself from pencil, paper and PC. For a growing number of employee health tasks, youll be able to say: Theres an app for that.
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Information is power the power to prevent occupational injuries. That is the fundamental concept behind a new national surveillance system that will help health care employers track their injuries and compare them to other, similar facilities.
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Health care workers may be suffering in silence from work-related dermatitis.
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Good communication is the key to promote successful return-to-work among employees with low-back pain, says Denise Knoblauch, BSN, RN, COHN-S/CM, clinical case manager at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL.
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Pertussis outbreaks have continued despite a push to provide booster vaccines for adolescents and adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now considering whether additional boosters may be needed, including for health care workers.
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When it comes to boosting return-to-work success after occupational injuries, sometimes more is more.
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When two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, hospital clinicians had one thought: I have to get to work. A surgeon who had just run 26 miles came into Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and prepared to operate. Nurses and doctors treating the wounded wondered about their own family and friends.
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The administration at Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare System thinks it so important for the Important Message from Medicare (IM) to be delivered correctly that all case managers go through extensive training on when and how the IM should be given to patients.
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The role of the hospital case manager has taken many twists and turns over the past two decades. Case management started out as a sectioned-off role of utilization review without any relationship to the direct care providers or interdisciplinary care team.
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In the newly revised Discharge Planning Interpretive Guidelines, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) includes what it calls "blue boxes" that advise hospitals on best practices in discharge planning and care transitions.
