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The future health-care worker: health-care practitioner
Hospital Medicine, 2003Changes in working patterns, advances in technology and changing patients' expectations are increasing the difficulties with recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled health-care staff (Hutchinson et al, 2001). This has resulted in increasing difficulty in meeting the population's health-care needs.
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2000
More people are employed in the health care sector than in any other industry in the United States. Health care workers are exposed to a wide variety of hazards, including biological, chemical, physical and psychological stressors. Concerns about exposure to contagious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis have influenced the career
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More people are employed in the health care sector than in any other industry in the United States. Health care workers are exposed to a wide variety of hazards, including biological, chemical, physical and psychological stressors. Concerns about exposure to contagious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis have influenced the career
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Tuberculosis among Health Care Workers
New England Journal of Medicine, 1995The risk of tuberculosis among health care workers was substantial in the era before antibiotics1 but declined rapidly after 1950 because of the lower incidence of the disease in the population and the advent of effective therapy. These changes resulted in the relaxation of infection-control practices in hospitals, if not outright neglect of such ...
D, Menzies +3 more
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Health care workers and influenza vaccination
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2010As part of the staged distribution and administration of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has emphasized that the first doses of the vaccine should be given to five high-priority groups, which include health care workers (HCWs).
Eric M, Maroyka, Mary, Andrawis
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Varicella vaccination of health-care workers
Vaccine, 1999The objective of this open study was to evaluate the response of non-immune health-care workers to two doses of live attenuated varicella vaccine given two months apart. One hundred subjects (58 females; aged 17-49 yr, mean 22.8 yr) received two doses of varicella vaccine.
M A, Burgess +5 more
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Ethnic health workers in primary health care
Australian Journal of Public Health, 1995Abstract: Ethnic health workers were employed to increase the access of communities of non‐English‐speaking background to health services, but their role has remained unclear in a national health system that has been criticised for being slow to respond to the needs of these communities. Interviews and a questionnaire were used to survey a convenience
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Multiskilled Health Care Workers
AORN Journal, 1999MULTISKILLED HEALTH CARE WORKERS, By Sherry Makely 1998, 271 pp $34.95 ...
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Hepatitis B and Health Care Workers
Clinics in Liver Disease, 2021Owing to standard precautions and initiatives for universal hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination in the general population and health care workers, risk of transmission of HBV infection from the patient to a health care worker (and vice versa) is very low.
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Health Care Workers' Experiences of Aggression
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2017To identify the prevalence of patient aggression against health care workers, the consequences and coping mechanisms.Retrospective cross-sectional design.50 participants comprised 37 nurses, 1 ward staff, 12 allied health staff employed in two brain injury wards with experience ranging from 3months to 34years.Neurosciences and Brain Injury ...
Kerr, Katelyn +3 more
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More Home Health Care Workers Needed
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2023Demand is projected to outstrip supply.
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