ANSWER:- Healthcare workers face a number of serious safety and health hazards. They include bloodborne pathogens and biological hazards, potential chemical and drug exposures, waste anesthetic gas exposures, respiratory hazards, ergonomic hazards from lifting and repetitive tasks, laser hazards, workplace violence, hazards associated with laboratories, and radioactive material and x-ray hazards. Some of the potential chemical exposures include formaldehyde, used for preservation of specimens for pathology; ethylene oxide, glutaraldehyde, and paracetic acid used for sterilization; and numerous other chemicals used in healthcare laboratories.
8. Describe the types of hazardous substances that are exposure risks to healthcare workers.
9. List the factors which influence occupational exposure to hazardous substances.
Describe the issues associated with access to safe drinking water and sanitation, air quality or exposure to hazardous substances. What are some of the adverse consequences related to this environmental health issue? What specific strategies do you think might help resolve this problem? Be specific and examples to support your response
Explain how shortages of healthcare workers impact the ability to deliver quality care and manage risks
How do critical windows of exposure and different sub-types of leukemia make associates between causative substances and the occurrence of leukemia difficult to detect? What is the two-hit model? How is it related to the term gene-environment interactions?
A hypothetical cohort study of pesticide exposure and cancer followed exposed pesticide workers and a comparison group of non-exposed employees of the same company over a 30-year period. Researchers found that the incidence of cancer among exposed workers was 55.3 per 1,000. In the comparison cohort not exposed to pesticides, the incidence of cancer was 15.7 per 1000. Calculate the relative and attributable risks of exposure to pesticides and development of cancer.
Well Developed Explanation: Healthcare managers identify and evaluate risks as a means to reduce injury to patients, staff members, and visitors within an organization. Risk managers work pro-actively and reactively to either prevent incident or to minimize the damages following an event. Please Identify a Risk or Risks in a Healthcare Setting and create risk management plan on how to improve the risk or risks in the healthcare organization. - Risk Management Framework - Risk Managment Plan - Risk Identification...
Describe three types of associations(chance, noncausal, and causal) that are possible among exposure and health outcomes. Please give example of each. Need to have 100 words
Describe one physical, chemical, biological or psycho-social stress hazard that workers can be exposed to on the job, and one strategy that can be implemented to prevent or reduce the exposure. Why is it important for primary healthcare providers, (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) to ask patients about their occupation when performing routine physical exams?
Describe the relationship between dose, route, and duration of exposure to a health hazard and the effect this has on absorption and the possibility of adverse health risks.
-Describe the different types of computer information systems that may be present within a healthcare system, how they affect each other, and why they are important. -Describe how the computer information systems either improve and/or hinder patient safety in the current healthcare systems. -Describe how computer information systems effect continuity of patient care. -Feel free to also give examples and experiences that you have experienced in your role as a member of the healthcare team to this point.