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Union plans largest U.S. nurse strike at Kaiser, Sutter Health
With ongoing nursing shortages, hospitals have been struggling to fill gaps in providing care, as well deal with nurses dissatisfied with resulting staffing levels. But even the largest and most
Reform calls for more administrative support, not clinicians
As hospitals prepare for an additional 16 million newly insured patients in 2014, new research in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests they should be concentrating on adding more support
How to boost flu vaccination among employees
As FierceHealthcare reported previously, flu vaccination rates among healthcare workers are much lower than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would hope with only 63.5 percent
Offer physicians research time to boost job satisfaction
With a looming physician shortage, hospitals have been trying all sorts of ways to keep their employees happy and ultimately keep them at their facility. According to new research from the Department
Healthcare workers may find it easier to unionize
With state budget Medicaid reimburesement cuts leading to layoffs and layoffs leading to worker strikes comes news that it now may be much easier for healthcare workers to unionize. The decision in
More than one-third of healthcare workers lack flu vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isn't close to reaching its goal to vaccinate 90 percent of all U.S. healthcare workers by 2020. Only 63.5 percent of healthcare workers were
Hospital violence strikes nurses' aids the most
With violence rising in U.S. hospitals, it may not be all that surprising that nurses' aides have the most violent job in Washington State, with registered nurses ranking as runner up, according to
Two-thirds of healthcare workers ignore skin antisepsis guidelines
Only one-third of healthcare workers follow evidence-based guidelines for patient skin antisepsis, according to a new survey conducted by Infection Control Today and sponsored by CareFusion. Yet many
California program helps turn unemployed into healthcare workers
In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, the Youth Policy Institute in Los Angeles recently started a program to train low-income and unemployed residents as medical assistants, pharmacy
Study reveals Clostridium difficile spreads differently than hospitals thought
Although there is no evidence that Clostridium difficile--an increasingly virulent hospital-acquired infection--can be contracted by inhaling the bacteria, new research suggests that the germs don't
