A majority of healthcare workers (HCWs) experience workplace violence (WPV) but most WPV events go unreported. Underreporting of WPV is well documented in the literature as a barrier to identifying underlying causes and to evaluating the effectiveness of WPV interventions. Previous studies suggest that WPV reporting data is fragmentary, unreliable, and inconsistent. Also, WPV reporting systems are suboptimally designed making it difficult for healthcare workers to report WPV incidents. This study aims to assess the usability of an electronic WPV report in a large academic medical center and the perceived cognitive workload (CWL) and performance of HCWs associated with reporting WPV events. Findings from this study suggest that our institutional WPV report has suboptimal perceived usability and suboptimal perceived cognitive workload. Further, participants with training reported lower error rates in comparison to participants without training on performance.
A nationwide tuberculosis outbreak linked to a viable bone allograft product contaminated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified in June 2021. Our subsequent investigation identified 73 healthcare personnel with new latent tuberculosis infection following exposure to the contaminated product, product recipients, surgical instruments, or medical waste.
Responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
RESULTS:Of 43 students who completed our initial survey, 32 indicated interest in general surgery and were paired with surgical mentors. Twenty-six paired students completed follow-up surveys (81% response rate). Of these 26 students, 39% reported increased interest in surgery since joining the mentorship program and 54% reported having a surgery mentor, increased from 21% of initial survey respondents. Topics most commonly discussed with mentors included career guidance (23%), research opportunities (23%), and work-life balance (27%). Barriers to mentorship included time constraints of mentees and mentors (46%), COVID-19 (8%), and lack of mentor-mentee communication (8%). Mentorship program impact on perceptions of a surgical career varied (Figure).CONCLUSION: A student-led mentorship program can improve medical students' access to surgical mentors, which might increase interest in surgery. However, more work is needed to address common concerns about a surgical career.
Conclusion Based on our E-test results, all of the baseline GC isolates appear to be susceptible to gentamicin. However, at one-week follow-up,~11% continued to be infected with GC. Determining if these are treatment failures, re-infections or new infections is a challenge. Laboratory comparisons of matched isolates are planned to help categorize these concerning results. Study enrollment continues. Disclosure No significant relationships.
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