Hospital Employee Health provides the critical information you need to administer an efficient and effective employee health program. Each monthly issue is guaranteed to provide you with practical, objective, authoritative and concise coverage of the topics affecting you most, such as:

• OSHA's latest compliance requirements for needle safety, TB exposure, and ergonomics;
• sample training policies for respirator-fit testing, needle safety devices, workplace violence, and hazardous materials;
• how to comply with Joint Commission requirements that cover employee health and infection control;
• how to improve employee compliance in TB skin testing, standard precautions, and immunizations;
• how to reduce occupational exposures to latex, bloodborne pathogens, and lifting injuries;
• the latest employee health and infection control guidelines and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Faculty: MaryAnn Gruden, MSN, CRNP, NP-C, COHN-S/CM, President Emeritus, Association Community Liaison, Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare, Coordinator, Employee Health Services, West Penn Allegheny Health System, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh

Objectives: The objectives of Hospital Employee Health are to:

• Identify particular clinical, administrative, or regulatory issues related to the care of hospital employees;
• Describe how the clinical, administrative and regulatory issues particular to the care of hospital employees affect health care workers, hospitals, or the health care industry at large; and
• Cite solutions to the problems faced in the care of hospital employees based on expert guidelines from relevant regulatory bodies, or the independent recommendations of other employee health professionals.

Target Audience: This activity is intended for hospital employee health nurse managers.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 15 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 15 Contact Hours.

Nurses participate in this CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they’ve learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.

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