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Increasingly, hospitals are being required to make public their surveillance data on hospital-related infections as quality indicators.
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In this issue: FDA warnings for existing drugs dominate pharmaceutical news this month.
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Q: What's the difference between an employee health nurse and an occupational health nurse?
A: "Occupational health" is a specialty with certification that requires knowledge of workers' compensation, injury prevention, and wellness.
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If you want to promote a healthy lifestyle for your employees, maybe you should start by throwing away the scale.
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Ergonomics specialist Catherine Gouvin, OTR/L, CHT, remembers how impressed she was when she heard of a Connecticut hospital that had reduced its patient handling injuries by almost 50% and cut its lost workdays by two-thirds by purchasing lifts and training its work force to use them.
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Don't you wish nurses knew how to care for themselves as well as they do their patients?
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Hospitals need to make a huge new investment in antiviral medications to protect their workers from pandemic influenza, according to new draft recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prophylaxis could cost an individual hospital more than $125,000.
