Occupational health and safety for nurses

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Avatar m tn Hello, This forum is reserved for questions about Occupational Health & Safety. Do you have specific questions related to Occupational Health & Safety? ~•~ Dr. Parks This answer is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. The information presented in this posting is for patients’ education only. As always, I encourage you to see your personal physician for further evaluation of your individual case.
Avatar m tn Hi. I am a student. My major is about Occupational health and safety. That is, this topic is very interesting. Although I do not have experience to manage fatigue yet, I give some thing as reference if you want. I have some points as suggestion as follows: The first, Should be make more discuss between the employers and employees to get opinions from the employees which know the most clearly the situation, risks from the workplace as well.
Avatar n tn m not sure which country you are working in but in the UK and US there will be an occupational health unit that can advise you. Otherwise you can take the HIV DUO test at 28 days and be assured of a negative result.
163305 tn?1333668571 Participation in the annual Influenza Patient Safety Program is a condition of employment with IU Health for the health and safety of the patients that we serve, and is therefore required." The CDC recommends flu shots for everyone older than six months of age. Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., said hospital patients are especially vulnerable to flu complications because their bodies are already weakened.
Avatar n tn I am a medical resident and I have a couple of questions for you. I know that you specialize in sexual HIV transmission, but maybe you can help ease anxiety concerning HIV. My fears stem from becoming infected either by direct contact with patients-having hangnails and other small open wounds that may place me at risk of becoming infected if I were to touch some blood or other body fluids on patients, or from getting saliva or other body fluids in my eyes,nose and mouth.
Avatar m tn Have regular ten-minute breaks for every hour of VDT work as recommended by the Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines. If this persists, check with your doctors for proper evaluation. Take care and regards.
Avatar m tn I am never ever health care worker , but I asked you a specific question and I hope to answer clearfuly and simply. SO did you mean just health care workers when you were talking about or not? Thanks.
Avatar f tn A and classroom teacher • Educational assistance – direct instruction for 5 periods everyday also provides assistance with dressing and toileting and behavior management system.
Avatar f tn I work in occupational safety and health field. There was a question about firing practice at gun ranges during pregnancy last week. I posted some recommendations to prevent lead exposure to pregnant mom's and fetus. Based on an article in Seattle Times, October 19, 2014 "Loaded With Lead" I personally will no longer be visiting a firing range during pregnancy, and hope other pregnant mom's will do the same. Children in general are more susceptible to lead posioning.
Avatar f tn Sepkowitz confirmed that four years after the publication of their paper, we still do not know what the actual occupational death rate is for health care workers. No federal or national organizations have stepped up to the plate and taken on the task of tracking these deaths. Without those numbers, without a clear idea of just how many people are affected, there is no way any of us can come up with better ways to protect those workers who put themselves at risk to care for others.
Avatar f tn The opacities can be caused by chronic infections like tuberculosis, sarcoidosis and due to occupational lung diseases like silicosis, asbestosis etc. Tuberculosis can produce typical changes in X rays and typically affects the upper lobes. This further correlated with blood tests, which show a raised ESR and lymphocytes. Please discuss this with your doctor am sure he will provide further assistance. Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
660680 tn?1225215237 Why then the baseline for Occupational exposures is up to 12 months?
Avatar n tn My 12 year old son has no regard for personal and others safety. He continually makes bad choices. So far, we are lucky and no one has been hurt. But I worried for the future. We do not know what to do. We are a very safety oriented family and always taught safety comes first. Our older son, 14 years old, never has had an issue making a bad choice. We also have a 6 year old daughter. Most of his bad choices revolve around putting her in dangerous situations when we are not looking.
Avatar n tn Another study of 14,014 textile workers performed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) also found an association between the duration of exposure to formaldehyde and leukemia deaths. However, an additional cohort study of 11,039 British industry workers found no association between cumulative formaldehyde exposure and leukemia deaths. Formaldehyde undergoes rapid chemical changes immediately after absorption.
Avatar m tn s responsible for your employee/occupational health. As part of the reporting and follow-up, there is usually an attempt to identify information about the source patient (Hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV). The CDC website (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/bp.html) has excellent information regarding how blood borne pathogen exposures in the health care setting should be managed. The specific link related to Hepatitis B is: http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/HBV/PEP.htm#section1.
Avatar f tn My husband is being treated for Hep C. Due to the side effects and the nature of his work, he has been at off work for approx 2.5 months. Now his company want him to see the Occupational Health Dr. The hospital and GP agree that he cannot return to work yet. He has no problem having the referral and seeing the Occ. Dr. He has not told work that he has Hep C, but Liver Impairment. The nurse specialist can supply a letter confirming Liver Impairment.
Avatar f tn Momma is just sore and a few bumps and bruises. Any nurses out there work home health and how long did you work for before your due date? After this fall I'm afraid.
Avatar m tn With regards to asbestos exposure, he should discuss the situation with other employees, his employee health and safety representative, and his employers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can provide more information or make an inspection. This link may be helpful: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/asbestos Take care and best regards.
Avatar m tn The CDC focus national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases and foodborne pathogens and other microbial infections), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Avatar f tn By the way, a friend of mine is a teacher. She had started a new medication for her mental health issues and unfortunately, had a psychotic break at school. She walked herself to the office knowing she needed to be away from her classroom. She'd called her husband to meet her who came immediately. They talked the principal and she left and her husband drove her to the emergency room. She took the next day off of work and they were getting her meds corrected.
Avatar n tn i have been refused my nursing placement due to these faints even though i was cleared by occupational health. they were advised to do a risk assessment of each placement o check dangers risks to me . as a result the placement has refused to take me as they feel that there is to much risk the thing is i dont faint all the time oinly nowing again i usually can prevent most attacks using by tensng muscles or sitting down making sure i dont get dehdrated ect .