To many health care workers, a needlestick was hardly worth worrying about.
If there is a deadly pandemic of avian influenza and a vaccine to prevent it, no one would question whether health care workers would be willing to be vaccinated.
The ability to deliver quality health care depends on adequate staffing and optimum health and welfare of staff. During a pandemic, the health care work force will be stressed physically and psychologically.
Ergonomics involves an equation: Too much force on the body equals pain and injury.
Every day, nurses are going home with back pain. Some of them may even have back injuries they never tell you about.
