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If you want employees to comply with sharps safety, then their supervisors have to require it. That is a strong message that emerged from a survey of paramedics related to bloodborne pathogen exposures.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health offers the following recommendations for employers and employees to prevent bloodborne pathogen exposures among paramedics and other emergency workers:
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Federal health authorities are taking the first tentative steps toward considering a recommendation on mandatory influenza immunization of health care workers.
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A hospital employee tests positive on a tuberculin skin test. Should you retest with a blood test to confirm that? An employee tests positive on a TB blood test but works in a low-risk area and has had no known exposures. Should you recommend treatment for latent TB infection?
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Like a hurricane downgraded to a tropical depression, H1N1 influenza A has lost its pandemic status and is now just another troublesome flu bug, the World Health Organization reports.
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Meeting with key stakeholders and sterilization groups, the Joint Commission is nearing a landmark consensus position on the long-confusing issue of "flash" sterilization. With various groups already offering slightly differing definitions and interpretations, the Joint Commission tried to clarify its stance last year with a position statement that apparently caused as much confusion as it allayed.
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More health care workers received the flu vaccine last season than ever before, but that has not eased the pressure to boost immunization rates. Health care workers who fail to get their flu vaccine increasingly face additional infection control burdens, possible termination or public rebuke.
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When pilots prepare to take off, they follow an audible checklist. A similar strategy, adapted to health care, helped hospitals around the country reduce central-line-associated bloodstream infections.
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