Tools You Can Use
As nurses on the job, we often don't have time to seek out the latest in health and safety news, research from the policy field or other info about the nursing profession beyond our workplace.
These tools can help keep us current.
- Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic -- Comprehensive info from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- Mumps: What You Should Know -- Comprehensive info from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Smallpox fact sheets:
» Smallpox Disease, Vaccine, Vaccination: FAQs (pdf)
» The Vaccine Program: Weigh the Facts Before You Volunteer (pdf)
» Should You Volunteer? A Chart to Help You Decide (pdf)
» Vaccination Safeguards: A Checklist for Health Care Workers (pdf) - Safe Staffing Kit -- This free guide from SEIU offers strategies and tips for running safe staffing campaigns in your hospital, improving workplace health and safety, and persuading enforcement agencies to do their job.
- Shortage of Care (pdf) -- Check out this Nurse Alliance report in full, or browse through its executive summary.
- Healthcare Career Advancement Program -- If you've been thinking about going back to school to receive an Associate Degree in Nursing and become an RN, consider H-CAP, a convenient, worker-friendly program designed with your busy schedule in mind.
- Ask the Expert Event -- Nurses from around the country visited the site and asked nursing advocates Suzanne Gordon and Bernice Buresh how to increase nurses' visibility and influence.
- Government Hepatitis Report Flawed -- A CDC report on prevention strategies for reducing hepatitis doesn't mention safer needles once.
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