Source : Healthcare.
The purpose of this paper was to examine frontline managers’ experiences and organizational leadership responses that activated organizational resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn for ongoing and future responses to healthcare crises.
Source : Hospital Employee Health.
New draft patient isolation guidelines recently approved by advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized that healthcare workers have N95 respirators, masks, eye protection, and other personal protective equipment readily available.
Source : Hospital Employee Health.
An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently completed draft isolation guidelines for respiratory patients, but got a thumbs down and a loaded question for their trouble: “Should N95 respirators be recommended for all pathogens that spread by the air?”
Source : JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration.
This study examined the relationships between the dimensions of the nurse manager practice environment and burnout. Understanding the degree to which their practice environment characteristics impact their level of burnout is important to nursing manager retention.
Source : International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.
The aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to study the association between night work and the development of prostate cancer.
Source : AORN Journal.
The updated AORN “Guideline for safe patient handling and movement” provides recommendations on safe patient handling and mobility programs to decrease patient and personnel injuries.
Source : American Journal of Public Health.
Coming at a time when burnout rates were already high, the COVID-19 pandemic physically and mentally further stressed our nation’s health care workforce, leading to record levels of burnout, moral distress, and moral injury. In response, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released an advisory on building a thriving health workforce in 2022 with the specific aim of targeting health worker burnout to improve health and well-being and strengthen the nation’s public health infrastructure. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said, “We owe all health workers—from doctors to hospital custodial staff—an enormous debt. And as we can clearly see and hear throughout this Surgeon General’s Advisory, they’re telling us what our gratitude needs to look like: real support and systemic change that allows them to continue serving to the best of their abilities.”
Source : American Journal of Public Health.
Burnout among health care workers has been rising for years and is associated with increased risk of job dissatisfaction, suicide, and poor patient outcomes.1–5 COVID-19 brought this issue to the forefront. By the end of 2021, more than 60% of physicians and advanced practice clinicians reported burnout, and in 2022, 45% of nurses reported feeling burned out, 51% emotionally drained, and 56% used up.6,7 In 2021, more than half of public health workers reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, and nearly a third reported an intention to leave their organization in the next year.
Source : Revue du CREMIS: Se dire ou être dit·e.
Les femmes en situation de handicap sont deux fois plus à risque que leurs consœurs n’ayant pas de limitation de subir de la violence conjugale, et ce risque s’accroît encore si elles sont issues de l’immigration. Si des études ont mis en évidence certains enjeux vécus par les femmes en situation de handicap (Ballan et…
Source : Journal of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.
Exposure to chemotherapy is an occupational hazard predisposing nurses to severe health effects. The purpose of this integrative review was to identify the recent literature describing the risk factors for occupational exposure to chemotherapy among nurses.