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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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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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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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