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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, these industries had the highest rates of work-related injury and illness in the United States in 2010:
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Simulation-based training is an effective way to teach physicians, nurses, dentists, emergency medical technicians, and other health professionals, according to an analysis led by Mayo Clinic researchers.
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Cleaning patient's rooms may not seem like the most important job in the hospital. But environmental service workers save lives in their own way by preventing the spread of infections. A new spotlight on their role may boost the resources, communication and training focused on this group of workers.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded $248,000 to the Fenway Institute in Boston to create a National Training and Technical Assistance Center to help community health centers improve the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations.
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Growing anti-regulatory pressure and presidential politics bring new hurdles for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which was already known for its snail-like pace of rulemaking. The agency has delayed the release of several key regulations, and observers expect little to emerge in the midst of an election year.
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Templates often are created to help make sure patients with low health literacy understand information. The National Cancer Institute published a template for consent documents with an eighth-grade reading level for participants in clinical trials.
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Lift teams are now the law in California. After seven years and five vetoes, a safe patient handling bill was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that requires hospitals to have "trained lift teams or other support staff trained in safe lifting techniques."
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Physicians and nurses helping patients learn to manage disease such as heart failure often have no time to talk about patients' preferences for care; if continued interventions are consistent with their goals, and what is hampering their quality of life.
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America's health care workers may provide the best of care to their patients, but they aren't very good at caring for their own health. They have a greater burden of chronic diseases than other workers which also means higher medical costs for their employers.
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Technology is beneficial to people designing programs to impact the health behaviors of their patient population base, says Jason L. Bittle, community health improvement coordinator at Hanover (PA) Hospital Wellness and Education Center.
