Employee Health

As an Employee Health (EH) nurse, you’re probably under increasing pressure to serve as a source of the best and most up-to-date information on COVID-19 and its vaccines, boosters, and variants. With healthcare workers (HCWs) largely on par with the rest of the population regarding vaccine hesitancy, a hard job is even more challenging.1 What…

Pandemic precautions such as masking, hand washing, and social distancing helped reduce flu cases in 2020 and 2021. While that’s good news, diligently avoiding pathogens is likely to result in lower levels of immunity to the flu in 2022/2023.1 Low influenza rates could also complicate the creation of the next flu vaccine, which depends on…

Tracking and monitoring your medical staff on paper or spreadsheets increases the chance of errors and missing information. Now in the time of COVID-19, you are concerned more than ever about surveillance and keeping your employees and patients safe. Understanding both the application and the business processes being pursued by clients is crucial for effective…

In the U.S., the government requires employers to provide employees with protective respiratory equipment in industries where they may be exposed to contaminants, including infectious diseases.1 Ensuring these facial respirators fit is an integral part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) guidance on protecting employee health, so formal tests are conducted on individual…

Employee Health (EH) executives are responsible for the well-being of an array of healthcare workers, including those in the EH departments, where data on incidents, illnesses, and injuries are recorded and processed. While increasingly sophisticated hospital software has assisted in collecting and interpreting physical health and compliance data, executives face new pressure to deal with ever-growing…

We can’t predict the future of COVID-19 or our responses to it. With too many uncertain variables, the best we can do is make educated guesses based on our evidence. For Employee Health (EH) departments, the stakes are high since they’re charged with helping those on the frontline stay safe and healthy. The employee health…

Hospitals are required to report COVID-19 data to the federal government. However, the nature of these reporting requirements continues to change, making compliance difficult.  Below, we’ll look at the challenges of maintaining compliance with an ever-changing set of regulations, as well as how hospital Employee Health (EH) departments can use software tools to ease this…