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Everyone knows that health care is a high-stress industry. But stress is a known factor in many illnesses and causes numerous lost workdays per year. Finding a way to get staff to relax both on and off the job could be a way to combat burnout and, as two hospitals are finding, improve employee retention.
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Citing the aging work force as one of its ongoing concerns, the Atlanta-based American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) has thrown its support behind the United States Bone and Joint Decade, which is part of the international Bone and Joint Decade initiative.
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As part of her job as a health education specialist at Phoenix Childrens Hospital, Fran London, MS, RN, works as a nurse in The Emily Center, the consumer health library.
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It is difficult to predict what impact the revised patient education standards will have once they are implemented by the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Identifying smokers when they are admitted to the hospital and offering information on how to quit is good practice, says Connie Graff, RCP, AE-C, a respiratory therapist at Lake Region Healthcare Corporation in Fergus Falls, MN.
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The Great American Smokeout sponsored by the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society is the third Thursday in November.
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The Atlanta-based American Cancer Society put together a Stages of Change Model as they apply to a persons readiness to quit smoking. This model can be used to assess a smokers readiness to quit.
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B.J. Hansen-Wingert, MS, RN, patient education specialist for OhioHealth in Columbus, is a one-person department with its own budget.
