Night shift linked to insomnia and stress symptoms in nurses, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 04, 2022
The effects of poor sleep shouldn’t be overlooked in nurses — especially those who work night shifts, investigators say.
Untracked COVID: Nursing home workers have died at twice the rate of hospital workers
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 09, 2021
Nursing home care providers have the sad distinction of accounting for a large proportion of healthcare workers’ COVID deaths, according to new 2020 data that was not tracked by the U.S. government....
Town hall meetings reveal vaccine misinformation ‘widespread’ among SNF staff
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 29, 2021
“Outspoken” staff members from 50 skilled nursing facilities shared their vaccine concerns with investigators in a series of meetings this winter. The speed of vaccine development and infertility-...
Silver lining? Surgical and N95 masks ease spring allergies in nurse study
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 12, 2021
Nurses who recorded allergic rhinitis symptoms during a two-week period in the pandemic reported significantly decreased symptoms while wearing an N95 or surgical face mask vs. wearing no mask.
Supplied with PPE, care providers are less exposed to COVID at work than in community, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 11, 2020
The results suggest that PPE is highly effective in acute exposures to SARS-CoV-2, but certain tasks may still be hazardous, investigators say.
Fully 40% of healthcare workers who test positive for COVID-19 show no symptoms, and about half of those who test positive are nurses, according investigators.
Nurses unsafely exposed to COVID-19 at work, nationwide survey finds
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Alicia Lasek
May 26, 2020
A survey of 23,000 nurses exposes the impact of unpreparedness by employers and government, according to National Nurses United.
False sense of security may heighten COVID-19 risk for nurses: study
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Alicia Lasek
May 25, 2020
Younger nurses in low-contagion hospital wards had greater infection incidence early in the outbreak, a study from China found. The likely culprit: asymptomatic patients and staff.
Better facility lighting can help prevent medication errors
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 17, 2020
Nurses with nearsightedness or the visual changes of aging were less likely to misread medication labels under optimized lighting conditions.
Fatigued nurses more likely to regret their clinical decisions, study finds
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 08, 2014
Nurses who are fatigued are more likely to regret decisions they make on the job, according to a recent study.