The epidemic of health care worker injury : an epidemiology / [edited by] William Charney and Guy Fragala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charney, William, 1947-

Fragala, Guy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical personnel--Health and hygiene.

Medical personnel.

Medical personnel--Wounds and injuries--Epidemiology.

Health Personnel.

Wounds and Injuries--epidemiology.

Medical personnel--Wounds and injuries.

Epidemiology.

Medical Subjects:

Health Personnel.

Wounds and Injuries--epidemiology.

Physical Description:

233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, [1999]

Contents:

Chapter 1 An Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury / William Charney 1

Chapter 2 Health Hazards in Nursing and Health Care: An Overview / Bonnie Rogers 11

Chapter 3 The Epidemiology of Sharps Injuries / James E. Cone, Kim Hagadone, Alisa Boyd 35

Chapter 4 The Epidemic of Back Injuries in Health Care Workers in the United States / Bernice D. Owen 47

Chapter 5 Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis 57

Chapter 6 Hepatitis C in Health Care Workers / Jon Rosenberg 137

Chapter 7 Epidemiology of Latex Allergy / George W. Weinert 149

Chapter 8A Violence in the Workplace: A Growing Crisis Among Health Care Workers / Jane Lipscomb 163

Chapter 8B Violence in Washington State Health Care Workplaces, 1992-1995 / Michael Foley, Barbara Silverstein, John Kalat 167

Chapter 9 Caring 'Til It Hurts: How Nursing Home Work Is Becoming the Most Dangerous Job in America / Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 179

Chapter 10 The Occupational Hazards of Home Health Care / Elaine El-Askari, Barbara DeBaun 201

Appendix 1 Findings of Minnesota Nurses Association Research Project on Occupational Injury/Illness in Minnesota between 1990 and 1994 215

Appendix 2 Hospital Injury Data Charts 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0849333822

OCLC:

39606592