NIOSH Looks at Homecare Worker Injuries

Over a five-year period (2015 to 2020), 117,000 homecare workers were treated in emergency departments for work-related injuries, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announced February 6 in the latest edition of its eNews publication. The recently completed research found that nearly all injured workers (93%) were female.

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The Cornerstone of Your Safety Strategy: Locating Technology

When developing your safety strategy, achieving a swift response that minimizes negative impacts to staff and patient experiences should be the targeted outcome. As clinical staff are taught to recognize when situations are becoming increasingly tense, empowering them with the right technology can make a significant difference.

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Making In-Home Care Worker Safety a Priority

Private duty and home health administrators must tackle many industry challenges as leaders, such as worker shortages and reimbursement issues. Another of those challenges is workplace safety and how to keep in-home care workers safe from abuse and bodily harm when taking care of clients.

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Emergency Room Workplace Violence: Electronic Behavioral Alerts May Be Prone to Bias

In a poll funded by the American College of Emergency Physicians, two-thirds of emergency physicians and 70% of nurses said they had been physically assaulted at work in the prior year. Patients were perpetrators in 97% of the workplace violence incidences in the poll. The poll found hitting, spitting, and punching were the most common kinds of physical assaults.

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