Post-COVID complaints continue to affect recovered healthcare workers, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 21, 2022
Pulmonary tests may be useful in the decision to return to work, and should be received regularly after workers with lingering issues are back on the job, investigators say.
Infection preventionists join ranks of the burned-out, survey finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 15, 2022
The reduced well-being of these workers impacts healthcare quality and safety in a time when there is a 25% IP job vacancy rate.
Resilience and stress management program aids healthcare workers
Jul 07, 2022
Improvements were seen in resilience, stress, anxiety and burnout-exhaustion after the six-week program.
Clinical Daily briefs for Wednesday, May 25
By
Amy Novotney
May 25, 2022
More than 43 million more health workers needed to meet world’s health coverage: analysis… Neuroscientists pinpoint brain mechanism tied to age-related memory loss … Men with prostate cancer have...
CDC study challenges theory healthcare workers mostly contracted COVID outside their facilities
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 18, 2022
Most healthcare workers who got COVID-19 were likely infected at work, rather than in the community. That’s according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released last week. It’s...
Potential moral injury seen in healthcare workers similar to vets
Apr 12, 2022
Demographic characteristics suggestive of less empowerment may increase risk for moral injury
CMS pushes for mandatory flu vax monitoring among nursing home staff
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 13, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to adopt a new quality tracker to keep tabs on influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel in skilled nursing facilities.
Program reduces missed workdays for COVID-exposed healthcare staff
Mar 24, 2022
Overall, 92% of workers successfully returned to work about 2 days early relative to a standard 10-day quarantine. This saved hundreds of work days over a six-month period, researchers reported.
Supreme Court won’t review healthcare workers’ challenge to Maine vaccine mandate
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 23, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear arguments in a lawsuit that would allow healthcare workers to apply for religious exemptions to Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Healthcare workers who receive booster shots found to have lower coronavirus infection rates
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 12, 2022
A new study from Israel in healthcare workers has found lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection among those who received a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine.