ArticleWorkplace health & safety2015
Environmental Health and Safety Hazards Experienced by Home Health Care Providers: A Room-by-Room Analysis.
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Interactive Virtual Occupational Safety Training Designed With and for Ohio Home Healthcare Workers and Agencies
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
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- National Estimates of Home Care Workers Nonfatal Emergency Department-Treated Injuries, United States 2015-2020.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2024Article
- Social Risk Factors are Associated with Risk for Hospitalization in Home Health Care: A Natural Language Processing Study.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Article
- Home care workers' experiences of work conditions related to their occupational health: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Design and development of the home healthcare worker observation tool.Journal of nursing education and practice · 2021Article
- Infection prevention and control practices in the home environment: Examining enablers and barriers to adherence among home health care nurses.American journal of infection control · 2021Article
- Individual, social, and environmental factors for infection risk among home healthcare patients: A multi-method study.Health & social care in the community · 2021Article
- Observation of Hand Hygiene Practices in Home Health Care.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021Observational
- Occupational Exposures in the Homecare Environment: Piloting an Observation Tool.Home health care management & practice · 2021Article
- Reducing lumbar spine flexion using real-time biofeedback during patient handling tasks.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2020Article
- Home Health and Community Care Workers' Occupational Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: A Rapid Literature Review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Review
- Efficacy and Usability of a Virtual Simulation Training System for Health and Safety Hazards Encountered by Healthcare Workers.Games for health journal · 2019Article
- Challenges Facing Home-Based Caregivers in the Management of Health Care Risk Waste.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- A qualitative exploration of work-related head injury: vulnerability at the intersection of workers' decision making and organizational values.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Gaming Simulation as Health and Safety Training for Home Healthcare Workers.Clinical simulation in nursing · 2016Article
- "Making Do" Decisions: How Home Healthcare Personnel Manage Their Exposure to Home Hazards.Western journal of nursing research · 2016Article
- Home Healthcare Workers' Occupational Exposures.Home healthcare nowReview
- Evaluating Home Healthcare Workers' Safety Hazard Detection Ability Using Virtual Simulation.Home healthcare nowArticle
- Community/Public Health Nurses' Awareness of Residential High-Rise Fire Safety issues.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
The number of personnel providing in-home health care services is increasing substantially. The unique configuration of environmental hazards in individual client homes has a significant impact on the safety and health of home health care providers (HHPs). This mixed-methods study used data from a standardized questionnaire, focus groups, and individual interviews to explore environmental health and safety hazards encountered by HHPs in client homes. The participant sample (N = 68) included nurses, aides, therapists, and owners/managers from a variety of geographic locations. The most often-reported hazards were trip/slip/lift hazards, biohazards, and hazards from poor air quality, allergens, pests and rodents, and fire and burns. Frequency of identified key hazards varied by room, that is, kitchen (e.g., throw rugs, water on floor), bathroom (e.g., tight spaces for client handling), bedroom (e.g., bed too low), living room (e.g., animal waste), and hallway (e.g., clutter). Findings indicate the need for broader training to enable HHPs to identify and address hazards they encounter in client homes.
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