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Trying to help agitated patients, who still must be assessed for injuries or other conditions, can be emotionally and mentally challenging for healthcare workers.
While the ED is still the point of the spear in terms of healthcare violence, a new study supports the idea that the threat to workers is becoming more general and less unit-based.
An antivaccine movement launching misinformation on the internet is largely responsible for the return of measles, but are some healthcare workers contributing to the problem?
A cellphone photo of an oncology nurse cross-country skiing to work during a recent Utah snowstorm was widely shared on the internet, underscoring the mixture of dedication and joy with which healthcare workers see their duty to patients and colleagues.
In an incident that caused considerable anxiety and chaos, 116 employees and students in a veterinary teaching hospital were exposed to pneumonic plague by a dog with unrecognized infection, investigators report.
Personal protective equipment doffing errors were common in a study of healthcare workers treating patients under contact isolation for multidrug-resistant organisms, researchers report. The study has implications for worker safety as well, as the type of doffing errors described could lead to occupational infections with much more dangerous pathogens like Ebola.
Financial Disclosure: Medical Writer Gary Evans, Editor Jill Drachenberg, Editor Jesse Saffron, Editorial Group Manager Terrey L. Hatcher, and Nurse Planner Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study.
