Status: Full time

Job # 21-41

Status: per diem – will train the right person starting in August

Status: per diem current needs Aug 3 & 5 in Danbury

Position: Occupational Health Nurse Manager

Location: Nashua, NH

Status: Part time, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday,

Position: RN

Location: Andover, MA

Status: full time, work with a team of RNs

Location: Boston, MA - Relocation stipend

Status: Full time with outstanding benefit package

Position: RN or NP

Location: Allston, MA 

Status: Fridays and occasional per diem

Job # 21-33 $5000 sign on bonus

For more info on the positions go to: https://occhealthconnections.com/

If you are interested in this position email a resume as an attached word document to https://Nancy@OccHealthConnections.com

FREE on demand: 

Free 3.5 CNE:  COVID-19 Vaccine Training Storage, Handling, Administration, and Safety

Webinar  www.AAOHN.org

Aug 13: Immunizations, TB testing, Recordability and more

Indianapolis, IN https://inaohn.nursingnetwork.com/

San Diego, CA www.AOHP.org

Wilkes-Barre, PA https://svapohn.nursingnetwork.com/

Orlando, FL https://fsaohn.nursingnetwork.com/

Phoenix, AZ https://www.woema.org/wohc-2021_registration

Oct 15 & 16: Preparing For Case Management Certification

Harrisburg, PA www.PAAOHN.org

Oct 29-30: Georgia AOHN conference

Youngstown, GA https://gaohn.nursingnetwork.com/

Milltown NJ https://njsaohn.nursingnetwork.com/

Pittsburg, PA www.AAOHN.org

Hurricanes, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms can cause power outages. Make sure you know how to keep your food safe in a power outage or other emergency. Tips you need to know here: https://twitter.com/.../status/1416774768255139840/photo/1

 5 Things to Do When You Feel Overwhelmed by Your Workload

7 Signs of Burnout in Nurses (and How to Prevent It from Happening) https://www.alabamamediagroup.com/?p=38332

Be Prepared for an Emergency https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/survivors/patients/be-prepared-for-an-emergency.htm

The Polio Crusade interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. This film features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.

Tune in to watch or stream The Polio Crusade

In addition to the June 21 COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for Healthcare, which affects some but not all occupational health medical settings (see Fact sheets at Subpart U—COVID-19 Healthcare ETS (osha.gov), Is your workplace covered by the COVID 19 Healthcare ETS? (osha.gov) and COVID-19 Healthcare ETS - Frequently Asked Questions | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (osha.gov), another important document was released last week, which will affect many/most occupational health facilities. It is the Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for COVID-19:  https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2021-07-07 A quote from it is here:

This memorandum also includes policy changes regarding enforcement discretion for periodic respiratory protection equipment shortages and associated constraints (i.e., fit-testing supplies and provision of related services) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although OSHA had not waived compliance with any of its requirements during the pandemic, the agency set forth temporary enforcement discretion policies that CSHOs could consider when enforcing OSHA standards, such as the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR § 1910.134, and/or equivalent respiratory protection provisions of other health standards. These OSHA memoranda aligned with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators, issued at an earlier stage in the pandemic. The exercise of enforcement discretion was intended to be time-limited and applicable, on a case-by-case basis, to employers using the CDC-recommended conservation strategies during shortages of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) like N95s. Updated guidance from the CDC in its Strategies document indicates that the supply and availability of NIOSH-approved respirators has increased significantly over the last several months, and recommends that healthcare facilities stop purchasing and using non-NIOSH-approved respirators, not store previously decontaminated respirators, and promptly resume conventional practices instead of using crisis capacity strategies.² Similarly, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked its emergency use authorizations (EUAs), and issued revised guidance advising healthcare personnel and facilities to transition from using crisis capacity strategies, such as decontamination, as a means of conserving N95s or other disposable FFRs, and from using non-NIOSH-approved disposable respirators, such as KN95s.³ In light of these recent pronouncements from CDC and FDA, circumstances precipitating the issuance of OSHA’s respiratory protection enforcement discretion memoranda no longer exist. Therefore, where respirator supplies and services are readily available, OSHA will cease to exercise enforcement discretion for temporary noncompliance with the Respiratory Protection standard based on employers’ claims of supply shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the agency will no longer exercise enforcement discretion of requirements in other health standards. As such, OSHA is rescinding its previous temporary enforcement discretion memoranda. It should be noted that the ETS discourages, but allows reuse of FFRs in covered healthcare-associated industries only when facing shortages of FFRs under certain conditions and for limited periods of time. OSHA will address such case-specific situations using the appropriate provisions in 29 CFR § 1910.502 and/or 29 CFR § 1910.504.

How To Help Kids With Needle Fears When They Get The COVID-19 Vaccine https://www.npr.org/2021/05/16/997259404/how-to-help-kids-with-needle-fears-when-they-get-the-covid-19-vaccine?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Vaccine hesitancy toolkit

Earlier this year OSHA issued a guidance document that stated an adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is recordable if the reaction is:

(1)            work-related,

(2)            a new case,

(3)            meets one or more of the general recording criteria in 29 CFR 1904.7 (e.g., days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid), and

             (4)       the vaccine is required for employees.

Federal OSHA decided to revise their guidance to state they “will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022.” OSHA justified this shift in policy because the COVID-19 vaccine initiative continues to be a top public-health priority in the United States and the Agency wishes to be a part of the effort to encourage employee vaccination. The guidance further states, “OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts.”

This is very helpful since employers will now have no duty to analyze whether an adverse reaction to the vaccine is work-related and otherwise recordable. In all cases across all industries, OSHA indicates it will simply not enforce the recordkeeping standard with respect to adverse COVID-19 vaccine reactions.

This reversal in policy does not change OSHA’s previous guidance addressing the “reportability” responsibility to notify the Agency of serious illnesses. There is a vast difference between “reportability” and “recordability”, meaning the requirement for employers to call OSHA within eight hours and report an adverse vaccine reaction that results in a death within 30 days or an in-patient hospitalization for medical treatment within 24 hours still exists - whether or not the reaction is recordable.