News tagged with work environment
Magnet hospitals achieve lower mortality, report says
Lower mortality and other improved patient outcomes achieved at designated "Magnet hospitals" are explained partly—but not completely—by better nurse staffing, education, and work environment, reports a study in the May ...
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Apr 16, 2013 |
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Self-rated low physical capacity tied to low back pain
(HealthDay)—Women health care workers who rate their physical capacity as low are significantly more likely to develop non-chronic and persistent low back pain (LBP) compared with those who assess their ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 05, 2013 |
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Study shows medication errors lead to child fatalities
(Medical Xpress)—Serious errors administering drugs to children are occurring frequently due to workload, distraction and ineffective communication, according to a new study exploring the relationship between the nursing ...
Pediatrics
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Improved staffing cuts medicare patient readmissions
(HealthDay)—Hospital nurses with good work environments who are caring for fewer patients have significantly fewer elderly Medicare patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (MI), and pneumonia ...
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Jan 04, 2013 |
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Fewer patient deaths after surgery in hospitals known for good nursing care
Patients treated in magnet hospitals (specially designated for their nursing excellence) had 14 percent lower odds of death than those in non-magnet hospitals in a four-state study of 564 hospitals led by the University of ...
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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Genes could be powerful predictor of our capacity to deal with stress, study shows
(Medical Xpress)—Work stress, job satisfaction and health problems due to high stress have more to do with genes than you might think, according to research by Timothy Judge, professor of management at the University of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2012 |
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Book offers resources for PTSD sufferers
Close to 5.2 million adults experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) every year. And it can affect anyone—from war veterans and abuse victims to persons directly or indirectly traumatized by violence, natural disaster ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Greater alcoholism risk for bar, eatery staff: Swedish study
Bar and restaurant workers in Sweden run a higher risk of alcoholism than the rest of the population, with young women at greatest risk, a study published Tuesday showed.
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Boys appear to be more vulnerable than girls to the insecticide chlorpyrifos
A new study is the first to find a difference between how boys and girls respond to prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos. Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the ...
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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New study examines injuries to US workers with disabilities
A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University compared medically attended noncccupational and occupational ...
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Aug 06, 2012 |
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My hearing is fine, thank you, but could you please speak up?
(Medical Xpress) -- More than half of factory workers who thought they had excellent or good hearing actually suffered hearing loss and didn't even recognize the problem, a new study shows.
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Jul 11, 2012 |
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Parents' work-life stress hinders healthy eating
In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition.
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Jun 22, 2012 |
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Limits to growth: Scientists identify key metastasis-enabling enzyme
(Medical Xpress) -- On the complex road to eradicating cancer, controlling or preventing metastatic growth initiated by primary tumors is high on the to-do list. A key area of such research is the development ...
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May 22, 2012 |
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Jealousy and envy at work are different in men and women
A study carried out by researchers from Spain, the Netherlands and Argentina suggests that in a work environment, sexual competition affects women more than men. However, a rival's social skills provoke jealousy and professional ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 03, 2012 |
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Job injuries among youth prompt calls for better safety standards
Dozens of American youth under the age of 20 die on the job each year while thousands more are injured, often due to poorly regulated work environments, according to a new report released by the Colorado School of Public ...
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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