Hospital Employee Health – August 1, 2006
August 1, 2006
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JCAHO adds flu standard with no declination statements required
Hospitals must try to improve participation in influenza immunization of health care workers. -
Freedom: Hospitals halt annual TB tests
The tedious job of tracking tuberculin skin tests for hundreds, or even thousands, of employees has ended for hospitals that rarely treat patients with tuberculosis. -
AOHP at 25: Raising the profile of HEH
Twenty-five years ago, when hospital employee health was synonymous with tuberculosis testing, hospital hazards received little attention, and AIDS was called gay-related immune deficiency, a group of California nurses joined together with a mission. -
Workers become ill from floor strippers
While getting your floors "hospital clean," you may inadvertently be exposing workers to a hazardous chemical that can cause respiratory, skin, and eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and even kidney or liver damage. -
Hospitals look beyond patient-handling hazards
While safe patient handling is gaining momentum across the country, hospitals are also turning their attention to other causes of costly musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injuries. -
Put a premium on privacy in employee health protocol
Employees often feel uneasy about the confidentiality of information maintained by employee health, notes Marilyn Piek, RN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM, RMHC. -
Change for life: Wellness wins over employees
Promoting health is an obvious goal for a hospital; but often the efforts extend only outward, to the community, not internally to the hospital's own employees. -
Sign signals safe lifting practices practiced here
Signs are everywhere in a hospital: 'No Smoking. Authorized Personnel Only. Caution: Radiation.' So can one more sign protect nurses' backs?