Hospital Employee Health – May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015
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Ebola nurse lawsuit alleges inadequate protection ‘negligent’
Hospitals are rethinking their approach to employee health and infection control.
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‘Do no harm’ — with high reliability initiatives Joint Commission seeks better pt, HCW safety
When they take the Hippocratic oath, doctors vow to “first, do no harm,” and some hospitals are taking that sentiment seriously. As with the aviation and nuclear power industries, which have zero tolerance for accidents, the hospitals seek to be “high-reliability” organizations that are obsessed with safety.
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Nurse occupationally infected with Ebola blasts hospital corporation in lawsuit allegations
A lawsuit by Nina Pham, RN, against Texas Health Resources (THR) includes some explosive allegations regarding her occupational Ebola infection after caring for an infected patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in early October 2014.
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Ebola training makes all the difference for health care workers in terms of stress control
The nightmarish experience of treating an Ebola patient described by American nurse Nina Pham, RN, is in sharp contrast to the surprisingly controlled stress levels experienced by a well-trained group of health care workers in Germany.
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Bioethics panel: Ebola quarantines of asymptomatic health workers ‘morally wrong’
The misguided attempts to quarantine asymptomatic health care workers returning from fighting Ebola in West Africa last year were unethical and counterproductive, a federal bioethics group concluded in a recent report
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Ebola fear and stigma of health care workers echoes early days of AIDS in the 1980s
After the index case of Ebola in the U.S. died and two nurses who treated him in a Dallas hospital became infected, there was an outbreak of irrationality that spread as rapidly as any epidemic.
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As measles cases head for record case count, employee health must ensure HCW immunity
Amid what could well be another annual record for measles in the post-vaccination era by the end of 2015, employee health professionals must ensure that staff are immunized to avoid the chaos that can ensue when a single undiagnosed case enters a hospital.
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MMR and autism: Myth and misinformation
An anti-vaccine movement that has been amplified by the Internet and endorsed by vocal celebrities has created a persistent public fear that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism in children.