The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health provides occupational and environmental health expertise on issues related to the nursing professional and health care industry.
The mission of the Center is to protect the health and well-being of nurses and their patients and communities.
ANA wants to notify occupational health nurses to look for a survey this spring or summer on respiratory protection, and urges you to respond.
A 2011 survey of more than 4,600 nurses shows improvements in the prevalence of patient lifting devices and safer needles in the workplace compared to 2001, but RNs still rank the effects of stress and overwork as their top health and safety concern.
When nurses care for their own health they can better care for their patients.
Learn about how to improve protection against injuries exposing health care workers to blood borne pathogens.
ANA recognizes that workplace violence is a problem in the health care industry and works hard to provide resources to protect nurses.
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