Hospital Employee Health Issues

Persily T Lehmann P : The hospital: Hazardous haven. Job Safety and Health February 1974; 2:5–10.

Werdegar D : Employee health. Nurs Clin N Am December 1980; 15:769–787.

Lewy R : Prevention strategies in hospital occupational medicine. JOM 1981; 23:109–111.

Tucker PJ : A university medical center occupational health service: Shoes for the cobbler's children. Arch Intern Med January 1978; 138:77–79.

Clever LH : Health hazards of hospital personnel. West J Med August 1981; 135:162–165.

Temianka D : The needlestick. APIC Journal March 1979; 7:26–28.

Douglas BE : Health problems of hospital employees. JO$M December 1971; 13:555–559.

Steere A Mallison G : Handwashing practices for the prevention of nosocomial infections. Ann Int Med 1975; 83:683–690.

Rubenstein AD Morse LJ : Study reveals hand lotions may be the source of gram negative bacteria. N Engl J Med 1976; 277:472–473.

NIOSH Special Occupational Hazard Review with Control Recommendations: Use of Ethylene Oxide as a Sterilant in Medical Facilities. DHEW (NIOSH) Pub No. 77-200, Rockville, MD, NIOSH, August 1977, p v.

Daley WJ : Ethylene Oxide Control in Hospitals. Chicago, American Hospital Association, 1979.

Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Waste Anesthetic Gases and Vapors. DHEW (NIOSH) Pub No. 77-140, Cincinnati, Ohio, NIOSH, March 1977.

Hepatitis Control Measures for Hepatitis B in Dialysis Centers. Centers for Disease Control, Viral Hepatitis Investigations and Control Service, November 1977.

Kaslow RA Garner JS : Hospital personnel, in Bennett JV Brachman PS (eds): Hospital Infections. Chicago, Little, Brown and Co, 1979.

Center for Disease Control: Inactivated Hepatitis B virus vaccine. MMWR 1982; 31:317–328.

Garner JS Simmons BP : Guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Infection Control 1983; 4:246–325.

Favero MS : Guidelines for the care of patients hospitalized with viral hepatitis. Ann Intern Med 1979; 91:872.

Sandford JP Pierce AK : Lower respiratory tract infections, in Bennett JV Brachman PS (ed): Hospital Infections Chicago, Little, Brown and Co, 1979, pp 255–286.

Williams WW : Guideline for infection control in hospital personnel. Infection Control 1983; 4:326–349.

Center for Disease Control: Guidelines for Prevention of TB Transmission in Hospitals. DHHS (CDC) Pub No. 82-8371, Atlanta, GA, 1982.

Werdegar D : Guidelines for infection control aspects of employee health. APIC 1977; 5:81–86.

Center for Disease Control: Recommendation of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP): Rubella prevention. MMWR 1981; 30:37–47.

Valenti W : Nosocomial viral infections II. Guidelines for prevention and control of respiratory viruses, herpes viruses, and hepatitis viruses. Infection Control March-April 1980; 1:165–178.

Greaves WL : The problem of herpetic whitlow among hospital personnel. Infection Control 1980; 1:381–385.

Jackson MM Emerson SC : Paronychial infections of nurses in clinical practice. APIC Journal 1979; 7:16–19.

Yeager AS : Longitudinal serological study of cytomegalovirus in nurses and personnel without patient contact. J Clin Microbiol 1975; 2:448–452.

Radiation Protection for Medical and Allied Health Personnel. Washington, DC, NCRP, August 1976, pp 1–27.

The National Institute of Health Radiation Safety Guide. DHEW (NIH) Pub No. 79-18, Washington, DC pp 23–25, 75–77.

Ivancivich JM Matteson MT : Nurses and stress: Time to examine the potential problem. Supervisor Nurse June 1980; 11:17–22.

Silverston H : Stress and the critical care team. Critical Care Update January 1977, pp 5–14.

Huckabay L Jagla B : Nurses stress factors in the intensive care unit. J Nurs Admin February 1979; 9:21–26.

Scully R : Stress in the nurse. Am J Nurs May 1980; 8:912–914.

Gentry WD : Psychologic response to situational stress in intensive and non-intensive nursing. Heart Lung November-December 1972; 1:793–796.

Storlie FJ : Burnout: The elaboration of a concept. Am J Nurs December 1979; 79:2108–2111.

Gardner D : The nurse's dilemma: Mediating stress in critical care units. Heart Lung January-February 1980; 9:103–106.

Skinner K : Support group for ICU nurses. Nurs Outlook May 1980; 28:296–299.

Stillman SM Strasser BI : Helping critical care nurses with work-related stress. J Nurs Admin January 1980; 10:28–31.