Safety Risks Among Home Infusion Nurses and Other Home Health Care Providers

Pia Markkanen¹, Catherine Galligan, Margaret Quinn

• ¹Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts (Drs Markkanen and Quinn); and Safe Home Care Project, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts (Ms Galligan). Pia Markkanen, ScD, is a research professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is a coinvestigator on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-funded Safe Home Care Project and, earlier, Project SHARRP (Safe Home Care and Risk Reduction for Providers). Catherine Galligan, MSc, is a project manager and researcher for the NIOSH-funded Safe Home Care Project and, prior to that, Project SHARRP. She has written a workbook for hospitals on mercury reduction and selection of safer alternatives, articles on hazards associated with used medical sharps, and fact sheets on occupational safety and health topics. Margaret Quinn, ScD, CIH, is a professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the principal investigator of the NIOSH-funded Safe Home Care Project and, prior to that, Project SHARRP. She is also a member of NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda Healthcare and Social Assistance Council.