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As safe patient handling laws gain ground in state legislatures, reducing injuries is becoming the mandate of a new enforcement power: the state licensing division.
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Hospitals take precautions to prevent the spread of infections from patients to health care workers. But what about when the danger is physical -- and the health care worker is at risk of assault?
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The first steps to prevent injury at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City occur even before an employee begins his or her job.
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Injury and illness rates declined overall in 2005, but the rate at hospitals remained almost double that of general industry, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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Consider this scenario: Pandemic influenza has emerged in the community, there's no vaccine, and antivirals are in short supply. Your stockpile of N95 respirators needs to last as long as possible, because getting a new shipment may be difficult. What do you do?
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is emphasizing that knowledge is power when it comes to patients.
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Lack of consensus on how to measure hand hygiene compliance has made this a daunting challenge for quality professionals.
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Health care organizations used to mention "re-engineering" expertise as they sought individuals to fill upper-level management positions, but now the operative word is "innovation," says Dee Hartung, vice president in the executive search division of St. Louis-based Cejka Search.
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The sixth in a planned series of seven HIPAA security rule educational papers deals with risk analysis and risk management. The rule's security management process standard has four required implementation specifications, including risk analysis and risk management.
