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Every day, millions of Americans travel via air for business or pleasure, but few are aware of the health risks that can be caused by flying, from the merely uncomfortable (dry eyes) to the life-threatening (cardiac events), especially for those with underlying health conditions.
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The idea of workplace violence is unsettling to employers, employees, and occupational health professionals. Often, the first reaction by anyone in those groups would be to maintain zero tolerance for violent behavior at work.
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Weight-loss programs have long been staples of work site wellness programs, but they take on additional importance if findings of an Australian research team are correct that some jobs themselves might contribute to obesity.
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Workdays longer than 12 hours put workers at increased risk of injury and illness, regardless of how hazardous the job is or how long their commute is to and from work.
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Surprise! OSHA plans 4,400 unannounced visits
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To improve classroom education, create dialogue. That's the advice of proponents of dialogue education, or learning by dialogue. This approach requires that 50% of the time the instructor is not talking and the students are having dialogue in small groups or in partnership with another person, says Joye Norris, MS, EdD, an adult education consultant, curriculum designer, and speaker with Learning by Dialogue, based in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
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Learning centers or labs that provide individual teaching opportunities on various health care topics and skills needed for a safe hospital discharge have been proven cost-effective.
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Hospital for Special Surgery, a 142-bed acute care surgical orthopedic facility in New York City, has developed a patient education model that others want to duplicate. Most recently, Great Britain's National Health Service asked staff from this New York hospital to help them design a similar program for a new orthopedic center that includes pre-op teaching.
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Daily multidisciplinary rounds, a full-time medical director who is part of the clinical resource management team, and a clinical resource manager who acts as an additional resource for the case managers on the floor were chosen carefully to promote better patient care when the case management model was developed at the new Memorial Hospital Miramar (FL).
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Following a nutrition class using dialogue education at a center that oversees the California Women Infants and Children (WIC) Program, participants applauded. This act of support was quite a transformation from the "I don't want to be here, so let's get this over with" attitude many people generally had when attending the mandated classes.
