The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology - Première édition

Traditionally, health care worker injury exposure data is analyzed one category at a time, which tends to isolate the researcher from a more global perspective of an industry-wide analysis. Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology provides an industry-wide analysis that facilitates a wide-angle view of the dangers of working in health care, by focusing on the major categories of health care worker injury:- needlesticks, the most prevalent risk - back injury, the most expensive risk - violence and assault - health care workers account for more than half of all assaulted service workers - infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis C- latex allergy, which now affects almost 10% of health-care workers - managed care and its profound effect on the injury rates through downsizing, deskilling, and increased acuity - injuries to different populations of health care workers- home health care injury rates - long-term care injuries, which have doubled in the last decade. This book eliminates the need for a Bureau of Labor Statistics search for data, which can be time consuming, confusing, and complicated. TOC:An Epidemic of Healthcare Worker Injury.- Health Hazards in Nursing and Healthcare: An Overview.- The Epidemiology of Sharps Injuries.- The Epidemic of Back Injuries in Healthcare Workers in the United States.- Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis.- Hepatitis C in Healthcare Workers.- Epidemiology of Latex Allergy.- Violence in Washington Workplaces, 1992-1995 (with an Introduction by J.- Lipscomb: Violence in the Workplace: A Growing Crisis among Healthcare Workers).- Caring Till It Hurts.- The Occupational Hazards of Home Healthcare.- Appendix A: Findings of Minnesota Nurses Association Research Project on Occupational Injury/Illness in Minnesota between 1990-1994.- Appendix B: Hospital Injury Data Charts.