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Truck drivers do it. So do airline pilots and nuclear power plant workers. Should health care workers also be subject to random drug tests?
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In the battle against nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococ-cus aureus (MRSA), health care workers are more than just potential carriers.
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In January, a health care worker who worked in the maternity ward, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nursery and psychiatric ward of St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the OR.
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Lift teams aren't just for patient handling. As the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento discovered, the same concept can reduce injuries for other workers who must transfer heavy loads.
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It's a common disconnect: An employee at home, healing from an injury, feels increasingly distant from work. As time passes, the chance of that employee returning to work drops.
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Despite existing national recommendations to the contrary, more than a third of hospitals reporting performance measurement data to The Joint Commission are not offering pneumococcal vaccine to their pneumonia patients, a recent report reveals.
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The Joint Commission has created some Q&A clarification of its standards regarding tissue handling and transplantation in light of some highly publicized incidents of inappropriate practices.
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A hospital CEO received three occurrence reports from a charge nurse on labor and delivery about several problems involving the same physician. Nurses reported feeling intimidated, hurried, and made to feel incompetent due to being berated, sometimes in front of the patient.
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Currently, 382 hospitals have submitted data to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture's comparative database. This new database serves as a central repository for data so hospitals can compare their safety culture survey results, and includes data from all participating hospitals, with 108,621 individual respondents.
