International Journal of Public Health and Safety

Aim: To identify dimensions with the greatest impact on health staff job satisfaction, evaluating their evolution over time and selecting the most sensitive monitoring indicators to detecting changes.
Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were conducted in 2013 and 2016. The population studied was the staff of a Long Stay Chronic Care hospital in Valencia (n 2013=313; n 2016=312). The assessment tool used was the Corporate Osakidetza Satisfaction Survey, based on the EFQM Excellence Model, developed and validated by the Basque Health Service for the evaluation and improvement of people’s job satisfaction in public utility companies. Predictive variables were socio-demographic characteristics and professionals ratio with excellent perception of the organizational variables that define Job Satisfaction. Outcome variable was high job satisfaction, defined as a score ≥ 75th percentile. The association between variables was quantified by Odds Ratio.
Results: Mean job satisfaction was 7 in both studies, being a poor indicator of change. The highest rated aspects in both surveys were healthcare quality and relationship with supervisor, and the worst were hospital management perception and recognition. In the stratified analysis, socio-demographic variables had little significance, while an excellent perception in some of the considered dimensions, and were associated with high job satisfaction. The most strongly associated aspects were communication, working environment and training. In the comparative study, indicators based on individual dimensions detected changes better than the assessment of overall satisfaction.
Conclusions: Job satisfaction surveys are a useful tool to evaluate the perception of professionals and to detect improvement areas. The choice of appropriate indicators optimizes the information obtained through these surveys. According to our results, graphical representation of the percentage of satisfied professionals for each of the analyzed dimensions is the best indicator to detecting changes and detected differences that were not evident in the rest of indicators analyzed.

Antibiotics resistance is a global issue, becoming more intensified because of the diminishing number of new antibiotics. Samples were collected aseptically from hospital surfaces with swab sticks. Isolated microorganisms from the samples collected were identified using standard microbiological methods. A total of 109 isolates were obtained Staphylococcus aureus (29), Staphylococcus epidermidis (13), Streptococcus spp. (16), Escherichia coli (8), Klebsiella pneumonia (7), Proteus spp (5), Enterobacter aerogenes (6), Bacillus cereus (10), Micrococcus leteus (6) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (9). Gram negative bacterial isolated in the study shows multi-drug resistance to about four to five of the antibiotics tested. Most notably E. coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Proteus mirabilis. Although Tarivid and Perfloxacin demonstrated a high potency against these organisms. All Gram positive isolate shows 100% resistance to Ampiclox and Zannicef. Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Staphylococcus. aureus shows resistance to multiple antibiotics. The present of multidrug resistance microorganism in hospital environment is a concern in healthcare delivery.

A party isn’t really a party without balloons. Balloons aren’t just for birthday parties, people used a plenty of ways to incorporate them into wedding decor, New Year's fest and graduation parties. Due to Archimedes' law, a gas for lifting is required to create buoyancy because density is lower than that of air. Hydrogen is the lightest gas (less dense than air about 14 times), for this reason it is the most appropriate lifting gas. However, hydrogen has several disadvantages, the most important that the gas is flammable. Helium consider as the second lightest gas, so, it is an attractive gas. A major advantage is that the gas is nonflammable, but it is expensive. Ignorance or sometimes disregard for safety rules, some simple craftsmen produce hydrogen from aluminum cans for soft drinks believing that it is helium. They fill the balloons with the produced gas which can cause an explosion if caught fire. The biggest danger is that people produce hydrogen gas in this way at homes. In January 2018 and during one of the celebrations, eleven university students were burned as a result of filling of balloons with hydrogen.