Occupational Health in Healthcare

This Research Topic is a follow up collection. Please see the first collection at: Patient and Medical Staff Safety and Healthy Work Environment in the 21st Century .Occupational health and safety in healthcare is a top priority for the global healthcare system and a prerequisite for high-quality medical and nursing care. Ensuring the safety of medical staff — and, in turn, of patients — is very difficult all over the world, regardless of the healthcare system model in place. The number of adverse events that occur during the provision of medical services, and the associated costs, are enormous. The World Health Organization reports that each year in low- and middle-income countries there are approximately 134 million adverse events resulting from a failure to ensure safety in healthcare entities.The provision of medical services depends on the involvement of many stakeholders across various medical professions, methods of financing, infrastructure, applied medical technologies, and the level of safety culture in the implementation of numerous processes, including nursing, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions. It is crucial to assure continuing safety training and to optimize training modules and evaluation methods that will maximize the effectiveness of safety training for healthcare workers. Medical personnel shortages, an ageing workforce, a decreasing number of new graduates, and increasing migration of young people are important factors associated with the hospital safety climate in Central European countries. Shortages of medical personnel, with a significant influence on the nursing profession, can lead to missed nursing care, which in turn affects patient safety and the education of nursing students. Incorporating practical training modules into curricula, establishing preceptorship programs, and incorporating ethics education into clinical practice are crucial to addressing missed nursing care. Health policies should focus on protecting the worker, so in addition to improving working conditions, it would be valuable to promote coping skills to improve the quality of care and patient safety. Managers should focus on how to empower medical personnel to foster a no-blame culture and effective reporting. Patients must be included in the process of assuring their own safety, as they provide a unique, irreplaceable, and essential perspective in evaluating it. However, without a safe environment for medical personnel, we cannot assure adequate safety for patients — the safety of healthcare workers must come first.Sub-topics of possible interest include but are not limited to: • New management and leadership roles in healthcare system; • The culture of safety, teamwork, standardization of care; • AI and other technologies to support medical personnel; • New teaching techniques to assure healthy work environment; • Missed nursing care and assuring patient safety; • Healthy work environment in 21st century; • Health care workers safety for overall patient safety.Please note: This Research Topic focuses specifically on occupational health and safety in healthcare, and the interconnection between healthcare worker safety and patient safety. Submissions must address healthcare worker safety and working conditions as a central focus, with clear relevance to occupational health and safety research. Manuscripts dedicated solely to patient safety outcomes or clinical interventions, without a clear connection to occupational health and safety, fall outside the scope of this collection and will not be considered for review. Topic editors: Adriano Friganovic, Sabina Krupa-Nurcek, Justyna Kosydar-Bochenek, Biljana Filipovic, Irena Kovačević, Sandra Bošković Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/79313/occupational-health-in-healthcare