Hospital Employee Health – November 1, 2014
November 1, 2014
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CMS flu shot reporting raises thorny issue of vaccination status of docs, non-hospital employees
Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of health care workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). -
NIOSH: Beware of new targeted cancer drugs
For the first time, conjugated monoclonal antibodies have been added to a list of drugs that pose an occupational hazard. The new cancer treatment targets tumors with deadly toxins – but also can produce some residue that could put health care workers at risk, safety experts caution. -
CA takes another aim at workplace violence
Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, a man strode past the weapons screening area of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and, without warning, began stabbing a nurse in the torso. -
Fantastic 4: Diligence, culture, leaders, ergonomics
Hospitals with solid organizational practices and policies, including better ergonomic practices, have lower injury rates among nurses, a new study finds. -
Employee health can lead efforts to make hospitals an age-friendly workplace
With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard. The nursing and nursing aides’ shortages are combining with the demographic trend of older female employees — an average of 47 years for RNs — suggest that nurses and other health care workers will need to continue working into advanced age in the next decade. -
Hypertension a major risk for many hospital workers
Stress triggers include job insecurity, hostile workplace in health care support positions. Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and other leading causes of death, and now a new study has found that some hospital workers have significantly higher risk of developing the disease. -
Next crisis? Prepare with a systems approach
Expecting the unexpected: ‘The best managers are people who don’t lose that human touch.’ Whether it’s a rare flu epidemic like H1N1, a natural disaster or a major hospital technology overhaul, hospital employee health departments can just about predict the arrival of something unpredictable every year or two.