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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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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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HIV Prophylaxis for Health Care Workers
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1997The US Public Health Service (PHS) published new recommendations for preventing HIV seroconversion in health care workers suffering needle-stick injuries. In response, health care institutions across the United States are updating their internal protocols to meet the currently accepted standard of care in this area.
L S, Forst, B, Fletcher
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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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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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[Updating in occupational health for health care workers].
Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia, 2008The board of the Thematic Section on Preventive Medicine for Health Care Workers of the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene (SIMLII) programmed a national conference on occupational risks of health care workers to be held in late 2009. Main topics will be: a) biohazards; b) biomechanical risk; c) psychosocial factors.
L. Alessio +16 more
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Health Care Worker Safety in Surgery
AORN Journal, 2011AbstractNursing is ranked as one of the occupations with the most incidences of workplace‐related injury and illness. The six types of injury risk specific to the perioperative environment are biological, ergonomic, chemical, physical, psychosocial, and cultural in nature.
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Quarantine, Isolation, and Health Care Workers
Continuum, 2015Although Ebola virus disease and other hemorrhagic fevers are not generally considered infectious diseases of the nervous system, neurologists may be asked to participate in the management of patients with these and other dangerous communicable illnesses, including possible bioterrorism agents. It is essential for all health professionals to understand
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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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AIDS: The Impact on the Health Care Worker
2015Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has posed many dilemmas for health care workers and tapped into numerous fears. Health care professionals whose main professional task is to cure and to heal have been confronted with a disease with an unknown cause no known cure and a life-threatening nature.
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