Hospital Employee Health – January 1, 2013
January 1, 2013
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Joint Commission: You can’t have patient safety without HCW safety
The silos that separate patient safety and worker safety are coming down. Preventing medical errors and protecting health care workers are part of the same continuum, The Joint Commission accrediting body asserts in a new monograph. -
Safe lifting becomes standard practice
Safe patient handling should be standard practice, not best practice. That is the message behind new, draft standards issued by the American Nurses Association (ANA). -
Hard to handle: Risk rises as obesity surges
About one-third of American adults are obese. If trends continue on their current trajectory, by 2030, about half of all American adults will be obese. -
Election gives energy to OSHA
Expect a re-energized OSHA with the reelection of President Barack Obama: New recordkeeping rules, a proposed Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) standard, and possibly an infectious diseases standard. -
Report: Why we need a better flu vaccine
Bring science back into the discussion of influenza vaccination. -
Why aren’t health care workers healthy?
Health care workers arent actually very healthy. They have higher rates of heart disease and asthma than workers in all other sectors, and they are the most likely to have functional limitations or to ever have had cancer, according to an analysis of 1997-2007 data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). -
Focus on ‘well care’ turns to health workers
In a futuristic paradigm, health care is not sick care. It is a continuum that provides acute care, rehabilitation and wellness, and one that encompasses both hospital patients and employees. -
2012 Salary Survey Results: In changing times, EHPs find they must do more with less
Do more, but dont expect more resources. Moneys tight.