Occupational health problems among nurses.

Tan, Cheng C

doi:10.5271/sjweh.1709

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“…A recent literature review on the ‘risks and health effects in operating room personnel’(1) emphasized that OR nurses have particularly high exposure to various hazards, including infectious agents, radiation, noise, latex gloves and anaesthetic gases, but did not discuss exposure to disinfectant/cleaning agents, an inhaled exposure that has been previously identified among nurses (9). Among healthcare workers, OR nursing was judged by experts to be one of the highest exposed group (in addition to emergency room and intensive care unit nurses) to disinfectant/cleaning agents, a common and regular exposure in hospitals (4, 21).…”

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“…Some specific disinfectants/cleaning agents used by female hospital workers have been reported strongly associated with current asthma (8). Nurses have been identified at increased risk of occupational asthma (9), adult-onset asthma (10), and asthma exacerbation (11). In these studies, nurses were often compared to worker groups with potentially heterogeneous socioeconomical status (10–12).…”

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Are Operating Room Nurses at Higher Risk of Severe Persistent Asthma? The Nurses' Health Study

Moual

Varraso

Zock

et al. 2013

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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Objective To assess the associations between operating room (OR) nursing, a category of health care workers at high risk of exposure to various inhaled agents, and asthma severity/control among women with asthma. Methods The level of severity/control in nurses with prevalent doctor-diagnosed asthma in 1998/2000 was compared, using nominal logistic regression, in OR nursing (n=69) and administrative nursing (n=546) from the US Nurses’ Health Study for whom detailed information on asthma and nursing employment status was available. Results We observed a significant association between OR nursing, compared to administrative nursing, and severe persistent asthma (adjusted odds ratio 2.48, 95%CI 1.06–5.77). Conclusions Our findings suggest that nurses working in the operating room are at a higher risk of severe persistent asthma. Further studies with detailed estimates of occupational exposures, especially to disinfectant/cleaning agents, are warranted.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Are Operating Room Nurses at Higher Risk of Severe Persistent Asthma? The Nurses' Health Study

Moual

Varraso

Zock

et al. 2013

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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“…Hospitals are high-stress employers (4,5 ) . The organization is hierarchical, and a nurse has to adapt to several supervisory levels, as well as to the demands of the on nurses are, for example, violence and threats of violence (6), close contact with suffering and death (7), role ambiguity (E), understaffing (7), and shift work (9).…”

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Work-related low-back problems in nursing

Lagerström¹,

Hansson²,

Hagberg³

1998

Scand J Work Environ Health

154

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This scientific literature review focuses 011 the relation bctween nursing work and low-back problems. Its ail11 was to estimate thc risk of physical, psychosocial, and work organizational exposure factors that may lead to low-back problems. In addition this paper reviews and evaluates reported ergonomic intervention, with thc object of decreasing the prcvalcnce and incidence of low-back problems among nurses. A co~isiderable numbcr of studies of ~iursing staff has shown thc connection between lifts and transfers of patients on one hand and low-back problems on the other. Factors in nursing work that may be significant in this connection are staff density and work satisfaction. In this review thc single individual factor that was indisputably related to low-back problems was "history of back problems". Prevelitio~i programs do not show unequivocally positive results. There is a great need to carry out prospective studies with preventive programs.

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“…Nurses are exposed to a variety of occupational health hazards in their work environment, including ionizing radiation, cytostatic drugs, anesthetic waste gases, viruses, a variety of chemicals, and stress (1)(2)(3).…”

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