The case study I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Help You has a misleading title. The case study is about how an OSHA inspector walked in the door and changed East Hampshire Homes forever (Borden & Cooper, 2002). Jay and Leigh Carlos were asked by a delegation of parents and relatives of mentally retarded adults to build a care home for their special needs family members. After months of studying the subject on should they open up a home.…
This home was not a skilled nursing facility and the employees, mostly licensed practical nurses, did very few injections or came in contact with blood or bodily fluids. Leigh felt that due to her medical background, she was understanding of the OSHA regulation. The OSHA regulation stated that the employer is only required to make the vaccine available to those employees having exposure to blood or bodily fluids. Due to the higher than normal employee attrition rate and the…
James Hitesman was a registered nurse and shift supervisor at Bridgeway, Inc, nursing home. He displayed concerns to management about that amount of infectious diseases within the nursing home. He claimed that the incidents of infections were rising at a disturbing rate. The management did not take care of the situation as he desired. Therefore, he told a television reporter about the problems in this nursing home.…
This case study was performed at the mental health institution for young children, called Willowbrook State School, where hepatitis was running rampant. With the permission of the parents, researchers began to dose children, already in the institute and asking for admission, with a weak form of the hepatitis virus and antibodies. Through this research two strains for hepatitis were discovered, A and B. (1, Willowbrook) The children with the antibodies injected into them did not have as severe symptoms as those only injected with the weak virus. The children had the best medical services provided for them since it was a medical institution.…
i) It should be mandatory for nurses to get the influenza vaccination yearly. ii) Many people believe that Health Care Workers should have the choice of whether or not to receive the flu vaccination. Nurses will most likely be exposed to the flu while working in doctors’ offices or hospitals.…
Final Project Part B Milestone 1 The crises situation I chose was The Vaccine War. The topic of vaccines stood out to me because I have heard multiple opinions about vaccines while growing up. Inside my family home I saw my parents’ opinion on vaccines change. I was vaccinated as a child, but as I got older my parents began to disagree with vaccinations.…
One of the key factors, in this case, is that Jay received a phone call from his program services director to notify him about an OSHA inspector wants to review his blood-borne pathogen policy and employee hepatitis vaccination procedure. Apparently, OSHA needs to inspection Jay Carlos’s blood-borne pathogen policy to make sure that the company is aware of the situation and for preventing loss of lives due to exposure (Lester, & Parnell, 2006). OSHA has a role which is to make sure that safety and a healthy environment are the key elements every workplace in America. That the employees are not exposed to a dangerous condition in which they can get hurt; and that employees do not have to exposure health into an unhealthy place. For instance, OSHA prohibits to work in a place in which there is blood spilled all over the place without a having a trained crew to clean up the spill.…
We need to assess why the patients have not had influenza, pneumonia or tetanus-diphtheria immunizations. It may be because the patient is allergic to one of the compounds in the vaccines. It may be because of the religious concerns. Whatever it is, we need to respect their decision. Some of them may not getting it because of the lack of education.…
Hospital systems have tried numerous techniques to increase compliance with influenza vaccinations. Hospital systems have tried making it extremely convenient to receive your vaccinations by bringing carts around to nursing stations or offering vaccinations at staff meetings. When convenience did not work, they tried to make it as inconvenient as possible. Hospital systems tried making decliners sign paperwork acknowledging the risk they are taking for themselves and their patients. They have also tried techniques such as requiring unvaccinated employees to wear masks during flu season (Field, 2009).…
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) allowed Department of Labour (DOL) to make the American workplace safer by requiring the Hazard Communications Standard. It did not allow OMB to remove the provisions of DOL’s Hazard Communication Standards based on OMB’s determination “that the requirements were not necessary to protect employees…therefore, applied to situations in which disclosures did not benefit employees” (Cann, p. 45). The court intervened in this case stopping the Congress and the President, as an advocate for the American people in the work…
Question1 1, The bill can be boost statewide immunization rates. 2, “The science remains unequivocal that vaccines are safe and vaccines save lives,” said Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), a pediatrician and an author of the bill. 3, this bill can protect children’s health Question2 1, Sen. Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) called it “a direct attack on our liberty and a violation of our parental rights.” 2.…
Mandatory vaccination is effective in increasing the overall participation of medical workers in receiving vaccines compared to systems without mandated vaccinations. Non-mandatory health care services in Australia during 2013, had only 56% of their health care workers vaccinated against influenza. (Heinrich-Morrison, McLellan, McGinnes, Carroll, Watson, Bass, Cheng, 2015). However, the healthcare worker influenza vaccination program located in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center obtained a 100% participation with either successful vaccination or justified exemption.…
Today almost all children are protected by vaccines. Immunization shots contain a weaker form of an illness. It is injected into your body for your immune system to learn to fight off. Parents are questioning whether vaccines should be mandatory or optional for their child. Parents should be required to give their children immunization shots before entering public school.…
Position Essay: Should Vaccines be mandated? For ages, the issue of mandating vaccines has created much controversy among many people in our society. With latest outbreaks of measles in California and other states, the topic of mandating vaccinations has revisited the arena of the legislative body all over the country. Through research, science has demonstrated that vaccines are crucial in attaining and maintaining a world free of contagious diseases, on the other hand, others, do not believe that the benefits of vaccines outweigh personal and religious beliefs.…
The Microbe Hepatitis B virus belongs to a group called, Hepadnaviridae which consists of diseases that contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and affect the liver. Hepatitis B is a virus therefore; hepatitis B requires a living host to replicate viral particles. Hepatitis B consists of a nucleic acid core, a protein coat, and a lipid envelope. The hepatitis B virus contains a partially double-stranded DNA within the nucleic acid core because one of the full-length strands is linked to the viral DNA polymerase. The lipid envelope that surrounds the capsid contains glycoprotein spikes which are used to attach to receptors found on the host cell.…