Bear their own weight.
Before undertaking any procedure, staff should be aware of their own and their employer’s responsibilities to ensure safer moving and handling of patients; these are outlined in Box 1.
Box 1. Safer patient handling
Employer responsibilities include:
Having safer patient handling policies and risk management processes in place, along with arrangements to monitor staff compliance
Giving staff access to the appropriate equipment to undertake their role safely and ensuring equipment is well maintained
Providing staff with regular training in safe moving and handling, and equipment use
Employee responsibilities include:
Following appropriate systems of work and attending training
April 30, 2021
The fight for worker’s rights and the struggle for racial justice march hand in hand. This message rings loud and clear in the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library exhibit “All Labor Has Dignity” highlighting Martin Luther King Jr.’s advocacy for Local 1199, the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, in the 1960s. Kheel Center/Cornell University Library
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Local 1199 Salute to Freedom event
King’s work with health care workers is especially relevant today, according to Steven Calco, exhibit curator and research archivist at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Catherwood Library.
Q&A: Representative Eileen Cody on the 2021 session Sydney Kurle | Apr 28, 2021
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Representative Eileen Cody was raised on her family’s farm in Iowa. After earning her associate’s and a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, Cody began a 40 year career in nursing at Kaiser Permanente in Seattle. In addition to her work at Kaiser Permanente, Cody is a founding member of the District 1199 NW/SEIU Hospital and Health Care Employees Union. First appointed and subsequently elected to the House of Representatives in 1994, Cody has dedicated her legislative career to achieving affordable, quality health care for all residents of Washington State.
Of them, 4,017 healthcare workers received the first dose of the vaccine, while 9,899 were given the second dose, he said. As many as 20,276 and 13,753 frontline workers were administered the first and second jabs, respectively, on Tuesday, the official said.
Thursday, April 8, 2021
On April 5, 2021, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) reinstated the standard 14-day quarantine for close contacts of COVID-19 cases. This mandatory 14-day quarantine standard eliminates (for now) the 10-day quarantine option for close contacts with COVID-19 cases previously announced on December 4, 2020. The announced reason for the change is increasing COVID-19 rates and variant spreads throughout Michigan. The state s quarantine requirements and other COVID-19 precautions have changed in the past and are subject to change in the future. Varnum will continue to monitor requirements and advise of any changes as they occur.
The current 14-day quarantine requirement applies to “close contacts” which are currently defined in the FAQs issued by MDHHS as being within approximately six feet (two meters) of a COVID-19 case for 15 minutes, including brief encounters in a 24-hour period totaling 15 minutes or more; or having