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A recent patient safety report by an Institute of Medicine committee in Washington, DC, includes the following true firsthand account of a staffing problem leading to a nosocomial infection.
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Emerging infections, bioterrorism, and the patient safety movement are converging along with changes in the health care delivery system to reinvent the role of infection control. But the rising profile of infection control professionals is not necessarily lifting salaries along with it.
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Hospitals that fail to use safer needle devices wherever possible including the operating room may find themselves the target of employee complaints or Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citations.
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Nurses should be restricted from working more than 12 hours at time or more than 60 hours in a week to prevent error-producing fatigue, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel recommended in a comprehensive review of the nursing work environment.
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In an action that might have national repercussions, voters in the state of Washington have rescinded the only preventive ergonomics rule in the country.
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Is intradermal (ID) vaccination the answer for those who dont respond to two full series of hepatitis B vaccine?
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Long-term exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO), even at permissible levels, may be putting hospital workers at increased risk for breast cancer, recent studies suggest.
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Time is money when an employee is injured and cant return to work. Besides the financial burden for the employer in temporary disability payments, medical costs, and extra staffing, rehabilitation actually can suffer as employees stay idle at home.
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Why do so few health care workers get the flu vaccine each year? What can be done about it?
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The heat is off of nursing homes or at least turned down from a boil to simmer. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) administrator John Henshaw announced that the National Emphasis Program for nursing homes has ended.
