Handbook of modern hospital safety
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Handbook of modern hospital safety
Lewis, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
As the need for attentive health care becomes more important than ever, on-the-job risks to physicians, nurses, and related professionals have continued to relentlessly increase.
Ever-changing technology, new and unforeseen hazards, the dramatic shift to managed care, and a lack of skilled workers have only heightened the difficulties of maintaining safe environments for caregivers and patients alike.
For guidance on health care worker protection, safety specialists have found definitive advice and guidance in William Charney's Essentials of Modern Hospital Safety, Volumes I to III -introduced by Lewis Publishers during the early 1990s. Charney now offers all the important details of that three-volume series, combined with an additional volume's worth of information, in a convenient, single-volume Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety.
It's a tragic irony: the industry dedicated to healing and recovery has now become the second highest compensable injury sector-even more hazardous than manufacturing. Make sure your health care professionals have the skills, tools and awareness to protect themselves-and, in turn, their patients-with the Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Overview of Hospital Safety
Safe Use of Ethlene Oxide
Anesthetic Gases in the Operating Room
Control of Aldehydes in Hospitals
Antineoplastic Drugs
Aerosolized Drugs
Asbestos Control Program in the Hospital Setting
Reproductive Hazards in Hospitals
Radiation Protection in Hospitals
Emerging Trends in Infectious Waste Management
Laboratory Safety
Needlestick Injury
Back Injury in Health Care
Laser Use in Hospitals
Biological Exposure Indexing
Tuberculosis, the New Epidemic
Health and Safety Hazards of Shiftwork in Hospitals
Respiratory Protection in Hospitals
Personal Exposure to Blood Aerosols in the Operating Room
Epidemiology of Health Care Worker Injury
Assaults in Health Care
Training Issues in Health Care
Latex Allergy in Hospital Workers
Implementation of a Tuberculosis Control Plan
Nursing Homes, and Analysis of Injury
Ergonomic Problems in Health Care
Needlesticks
Hepatitis C
Managed Care and Health Care Worker Injury
New Product Development and Safety Device Research in Health care
Home Health Care
Ebola-Are Hospitals Prepared?
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