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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Do more, but dont expect more resources. Moneys tight.
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Calling for the development of a game-changing universal flu vaccine, the authors of a sweeping new flu report warn that the American public may ultimately lose faith in national flu recommendations that overstate the benefit of current immunization.
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In an attempt to preserve antibiotic efficacy and stem the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, there is an urgent call for antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) across the health care continuum.
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The threat of a post-antibiotic era when once treatable infections are impervious to all available drugs is typically evoked as some future specter to force present change. In reality, at the very narrow margins, it is already here.
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Recognizing their common stake in preserving antibiotics, a diverse collaboration of more than a dozen groups -- including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recently joined in a partnership that began with the issuance of the following joint statement:
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In an apparent attempt to err on the side of patient safety, advisors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made recommendations for influenza vaccination of health care personnel (HCP) that went beyond the scientific evidence and now are the source of mandatory and punitive policies, the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) charges.
