3138.0 Health and safety in healthcare

Monday, November 8, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: * Participants will identify the tangible benefits to quality care in occupational health through the integration of occupational and environmental medicine in the primary care setting. * Participants will be able to describe environmental and occupational health tools and resources specifically for the frontline provider and ways to access them.
Moderator:
Nancy N. Menzel, PhD, RN

10:30am
Healthcare triad of safety—patient, provider and environment
John Williams, MD, MPH
10:45am
Occupational exposures to antineoplastic agents in a hospital hematology-oncology department
Derry Stover, MPH and Chandran Achutan, PhD
        
11:00am
Adherence to personal protective equipment use among physicians-in-training during the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic — Utah, 2009
Marie de Perio, MD, Scott Brueck, MS, CIH and Charles Mueller, MS
     
11:15am
Sharps injuries among attending physicians and medical trainees in Massachusetts
Angela K. Laramie, MPH, Vivian C. Pun, MPH and Letitia Davis, ScD, EdM
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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