June 1, 2017

Handshake ban: How one doc is fighting infection

It’s a universally recognized custom that evolved over millennia, but one pediatrician wants to ban it. “We are trying to do everything to minimize hospital-acquired infection except for the most obvious and easiest thing to do, in my opinion, which is to stop shaking hands.”

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Nurses held hostage at Ill. hospital accuse deputy of fleeing scene

Two nurses who were held hostage in May by an inmate receiving medical care at an Illinois hospital, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing a security guard of putting them in danger then running away when an inmate grabbed his gun.

Safety of healthcare workers and their patients ’two sides of the same coin’

Healthcare employers should promote worker safety for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that keeping doctors and nurses safe helps to keep patients safe as well, according to federal OSHA officials. “Worker safety and patient safety really are two sides of the same coin.”

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