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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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Fear that their health and medical information will be shared with others is usually the "biggest concern" that employees have," says Judy A. Garrett, health services manager at Syngenta Crop Protection in Greensboro, NC.
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Violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards may be occurring in plain sight, but someone has to go look in order to find them.
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Use a checklist that is unique to your work environment when doing safety walkthroughs, advises Rod R. Hart, RN, COHN, manager of health promotion and wellness at ODS Health, a Portland, OR-based provider of health plans.
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The carrot and the stick have worked in Washington state to reduce the number and severity of safe patient handling injuries.
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Hospital ethics committees sometimes find they are drawn into local cases that reflect national debates over healthcare costs and policies.
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Some of the core principles of medical ethics are patient determination, doing good for patients, and doing justice. These also are some of the chief attributes of palliative care, experts say.
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Hospital ethics committees and consultants can improve their own understanding of cultural clashes between the institution and patients/families by first considering the culture inherent in an ethics consult.
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President Barack Obama has called for an investigation of U.S. human subjects research protections in response to last fall's disclosure that in the 1940s U.S. public health researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan research subjects with syphilis while testing penicillin.
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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has published a report about end-of-life care, emphasizing the importance of more personal and private discussions about the topic.
