In July, the American Nurses Association (ANA) hosted its first in-person Sharps Injury (SI) Prevention Stakeholder meeting. Experts, advocates, specialists, and frontline nurses from varied backgrounds with global renown convened to discuss the state of sharps injuries and needlesticks in U.S. health care. With hepatitis C infections and associated comorbidities, including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and coinfection with hepatitis B, HIV or multidrug resistant organisms, at an all-time high, especially among baby boomers, renewing focus and making concerted efforts to reduce sharps injuries and bloodborne and infectious disease exposures is time critical.
hospital safety
Environment, health, and safety
Nurses today are indeed challenged to do no harm to
the sick as well as the healthy—just in the course of
daily life and work.
Fall prevention safety bundle: Collaboration leads to fewer falls
At St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center in Syracuse, NY, we’re committed to providing a safe, comfortable, caring environment for our patients.…
Guns and nurses
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Issues up close – Fighting the invisible
MRSA, Clostridium difficile, and newly emerging “superbugs” are penetrating deeper into both healthcare and community settings. We need to use critical-thinking skills and rigorous infection control practices to outsmart these pathogens.
On unsafe ground
A call for real change and policies to prevent violence against nurses By Susan Trossman, RN Healthcare facilities are a…
Risk-adjusted mortality rates: Why you should care about them
Have you ever heard of risk-adjusted mortality? Maybe you’re thinking, “No! It sounds like something only a healthcare administrator or researcher would be interested…
