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Worker Safety Troubles Home Health Agencies, Staff

Published on Fri Feb 09, 2024

How can providers keep their visiting staff safe? Patient screening questions about firearms and other potential dangers to workers are one way to address visiting staff ’s safety concerns. So says Kathleen Thompson, a nurse with Providence VNA Home Health in Spokane, in a letter printed in the Washington State Nurses Association newsletter. Thompson was the coworker of Doug Brant, [...]
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