Healthcare Worker Safety
Sharps injury prevention, ergonomics, workplace violence
Protect the caregiver. Covers safe patient handling, needlestick prevention, ergonomics, workplace violence de-escalation, and mental-health first aid for clinical teams.
Curriculum highlights
- Safe patient handling & mobility (SPHM) techniques
- Sharps injury prevention & PEP timelines
- Workplace violence prevention and de-escalation
- Burnout, fatigue, and mental-health resilience
Who benefits most
- Bedside nurses, PCTs, and CNAs
- Emergency department teams
- Home health and community health workers
- Occupational health managers
By the end of this program, you will be able to:
Identify the top three occupational hazards in your care setting and their evidence-based mitigations.
Apply Safe Patient Handling & Mobility (SPHM) technology and technique.
Execute the correct response to a sharps injury within OSHA-mandated timelines.
Recognize the escalation ladder of workplace violence and apply de-escalation techniques.
Build a personal fatigue-management and burnout-prevention plan.
Module-by-module breakdown
OSHA injury statistics, cost of clinician harm, and the ethical case for a Just Culture safety program.
Engineering controls (safety-engineered devices, sharps containers), work practice controls, and the SEIPS incident reporting system.
First-aid steps, source-patient testing consent, HBV/HCV/HIV PEP timelines, and follow-up serology schedule.
Mobility algorithms, mechanical lifts, friction-reducing devices, and staffing-model implications.
Workstation setup for EHR-heavy roles, neutral-posture bedside positioning, and micro-break protocols.
Patient/visitor violence and lateral (colleague) violence. Warning signs, triage, and organizational responsibilities.
Verbal de-escalation frameworks (CPI, PMDB), personal safety positioning, and when to call for help.
Circadian science of night shift, controlled napping, caffeine timing, and the drive-home crash risk.
Diagnostic markers, protective factors, peer-support programs, and evidence-based interventions.
A 4-part personal plan you leave the course with: mitigations, escalation, recovery, and disclosure.
Before you enroll
Open to all healthcare workers. Especially recommended after your first 6 months in a direct-care role.
How you’re evaluated
50-MCQ exam + reflective safety-review case study on your own workplace. Passing threshold: 80%.
Standards & frameworks
- OSHA Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (2000)
- OSHA Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence in Healthcare (2015)
- ANA Safe Patient Handling & Mobility Interprofessional National Standards
- NIOSH Total Worker Health framework
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