Adoption
Work/Life Connections
Adoption is one of the most unselfish acts a birth parent can make for a child when the birth parents, for whatever reasons, are unable to raise the child themselves. It is never an easy decision. It is never without pain. Putting a child’s welfare ahead of one’s own feelings is a true act of love. Adoption means placing a child legally and permanently with a family who will raise the child as their own. In some cases the birth parent(s) select the adoptive parents whom, depending upon their mutual, wishes they may or may not actually meet.
Medication Options for Tobacco Cessation
Occupational Health Clinic
Medication is commonly used to help smokers quit. There is no magic formula to determine who needs medication. If you smoke more than a pack a day, have had significant withdrawal symptoms during previous quit attempts, or have irresisti
Tobacco Cessation Resources
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Sometimes all you need are the right tools. Here are some helpful resources that anyone can use to make quitting just a little easier.
Types of Abusive Relationships
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Abuse in relationships is any behavior or pattern of behavior used to coerce, dominate or isolate the other partner. It is the use of any form of power that is imposed by one partner over the other to maintain control within the relationship. Abuse includes, but is not limited to:
What to Do When an Employee Comes to Work Sick
Occupational Health Clinic
If you think the employee has one of the following conditions, ask the employee to wear a surgical face mask and report to Occupational Health as soon as possible.
Chicken Pox
Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
Measles
Tuberculosis
Pink Eye (mask not needed)
It is recommended that people not be in the workplace when they have a fever and respiratory symptoms. You should let your employees know this recommendation and encourage them to use sick time when appropriate.
Working While Pregnant
Occupational Health Clinic
Occupational Health, Vanderbilt Environmental Health and Safety (VEHS) and Vanderbilt Infection Control and Prevention have safeguards in place to help you protect your unborn baby while you work at Vanderbilt.
Working with Animals
Occupational Health Clinic
Working With Formaldehyde
Occupational Health Clinic
Formaldehyde is a chemical used in embalming and tissue preservation, as well as in cold sterilization. Acute exposure to formaldehyde may result in pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs), central nervous system (CNS) depression, or pneumonitis (inflammation of the lung tissue). Chronic exposure may cause irritation of the skin, mucous membranes or respiratory tract. Repeated exposure to formaldehyde may result in an allergic response. It is also a potential carcinogen. Primary exposure routes are inhalation and skin absorption.
Working with Radioactive Iodine
Occupational Health Clinic
When patients are treated with radioactive iodine, their blood and body fluids such as urine and vomit can contain the radioactive drug. Caregivers should understand the risks of exposure. There are two different types of radiation risks:
Thyroid exposure: Having the radioactive iodine absorbed by your thyroid gland.
External beam radiation: Getting radiation exposure from the contaminated body fluids, just like you would from an X-ray.
Preventing thyroid exposure
Vanderbilt Surveillance Program Screening Requirements
Occupational Health Clinic
Compliance with all applicable Vanderbilt Occupational Health medical surveillance and fitness for duty programs is required and compliance status is automatically imported into the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Performance Evaluation System (VPES).