Healthcare workers’ duty concerns of working in the isolation ward during the novel H1N1 pandemic

Abstract

It is important for mangers to provide a support to healthcare workers during influenza pandemic by providing a clear guideline/policy for case management and demonstrating appreciation for the frontline healthcare workers to minimise the risk for high staff turnover rates.

Accounting for personal and professional choices for pandemic influenza vaccination amongst English healthcare workers

“…previous adverse reaction to influenza vaccination, suggesting that their choices were not necessarily made with regard to the duties defined by their professional role. In line with previous research about the A/H1N1 pandemic [8,14], many HCWs had refused to be vaccinated because they did not believe they were at risk [2,4,5,7,22], or because they doubted the efficacy of the newly developed vaccine or were worried about its potential side-effects [23][24][25][26]. Similarly to past research [11,22,27], the HCWs who vaccinated did so not necessarily to protect patients' health but rather their own and that of their families.…”

“…Few qualitative studies have examined in depth the reasons HCWs' give for their own choices and the advice they give to patients regarding influenza vaccination, be it pandemic or seasonal [11,14,15]. Some studies have examined how HCWs provide advice to patients regarding vaccination for different conditions (e.g.…”

Anxiety and Work Avoidance among Intensive Care Workers during an Influenza A/H1N1 Outbreak

“…Despite their professional duties, 28% of hospital health care employees surveyed at a German university hospital considered it acceptable not to report for work during a viral pandemic [19]. Similarly, in a qualitative study that explored the views of 64 HCWs in the UK about working during an influenza pandemic, the perceived factors related to unwillingness to work included child care responsibilities, concern about the wellbeing of family members, lack of information about the risks of infection, no clear role during the crisis, and lack of trust in the health organization [20][21][22]. Our results were consistent with these previous reports [19,20,22], as we found that previously caring for patients with same disease and good perception of infection control measures were associated with a lesser tendency to adopt an escape behavior.…”

Stem cells and modeling of autism spectrum disorders

“…Several studies took advantage of the nonrandom pattern of X chromosome inactivation in female iPSC to generate isogenic pairs of wild type and mutant lines from RTT (Ananiev, et al, 2011, Wong, et al, 2012) and FX patients (Liu, et al, 2012). However, Mekhoubad et al showed that erosion of the X chromosome in female iPSCs for modeling Lesch-Nyhan syndrome occurs over time in vitro, raising significant considerations for modeling X-linked disorders (Mekhoubad, et al, 2012).…”