1. HEALTHCARE WORKER RESEARCH Lisa Pompeii, PhD, FAAOHN Associate Professor School of Public Health

2. Research and Training Healthcare Workers Workplace Violence Occupational Asthma Respiratory Protection Musculoskeletal Injury

3. Workplace Violence “Hospital Violence Surveillance Study” (R01: NIOSH) Patient/Visitor perpetrated violence 6 Hospitals, 11,000 healthcare workers 3 Texas/3 North Carolina Examined prevalence of violence types, risk factors Reporting patterns by workers Utility of standard reporting systems for capturing the events

4. Workplace Violence Grants (in development) “Workplace Violence in Outpatient Physician Clinics” Grant Submission: June 3, 2016 (R01: NIOSH) All violence types 2 Clinic Systems/182 Clinics in Houston Metropolitan Area “Workplace Violence in Healthcare and the Quality of Patient Care” Grant Submission: October 3, 2016 (R01: NINR/AHRQ) All violence types State-wide survey (Texas, California, Florida, Pennsylvania) Inviting TMC Hospitals and Schools of Medicine faculty to participate Physicians, nurses, certified nurses’ aides

5. Long Work Hours and Adverse Health Outcomes “Validation of the Threshold of Long Work Hours and Adverse Health Outcomes” (in review, R03: NIOSH) Reported a dose-response relationship between work-hours and cardiovascular disease. Sadie Conway, PhD

6. Long Work Hours & Shiftwork in Healthcare Inviting TMC hospitals to participate What’s Needed… Existing hospital employee and health data (de-identified) Human Resources data of worker demographics and work hour measures Health insurance claims data

7. First Report of Injury Safety Reporting System Medical Claims Blood & Body Fluid Exposures (NaSH) Worksite Health & Wellness Programs Workers’ Compensation Human Resources Data (linked by unique worker ID) Occupational Exposures (JEM) Mental Health Claims Pharmacy Claims Surgical Procedures Duke Health Insurance Plan Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System (DHSSS) OSHA Log Example of how hospitals have linked employee data for occupational health research

8. Occupational Asthma “Occupational Asthma Risk in Texas Healthcare Workers” Co-PIs: Delclos & Gimeno (R01: NIOSH) Physicians Nurses Physical Therapists Nurses’ Aides George Delclos, MD, PhD David Gimeno, PhD

9. Free Respiratory Protection Training (NIOSH/AAOHN) Training for Occupational Health Professionals that serve as their organization’s Respiratory Protection Program Administrator (3 CNEs) Training for Frontline Healthcare Workers (1 CNE) Inviting TMC Hospitals to participate in a study to evaluate the effectiveness of this training with respect to the adoption of safe respiratory protection practices by frontline workers www.aaohn.org

10. Safe Patient Handling Training/Research Training: Adoption of Safe Patient Handling Practices Based in Lean Six Sigma Methodology Front line workers develop work-unit level processes based on their patient demographics, work environment, and availability of resources Converting to online training (In person: 2.5 day training) Inviting TMC Hospitals to participate in a study to evaluate the effectiveness of this training.

11. Thank You Lisa Pompeii, PhD, FAAOHN Associate Professor UTHealth, School of Public Health lisa.pompeii@uth.tmc.edu 713-500-9474 lisa.pompeii@uth.tmc.edu