A hospital in the eastern town of Danville in the state of Pennsylvania known as Geisinger Health System, will screen new job applicants and will set its no-nicotine policy into effect starting February 1, 2012, as reported by CNN. While no-smoking signs have been placed on Geisinger hospital facilities to deter staffs and guests since 2007, the new no-nicotine policy for new job applicants will create the hospital as smoke free environment.
Citing the hospital spokeswoman, CNN also reported that new job applicants who will be tested positive for nicotine could still apply for a job at the hospital as long as they promise to quit within the next six months. The hospital will spend about $50,000 per year to help job applicants to stop smoking and to educate job applicants to change their smoking habit.
They are right with this ruling. It is unsightly for hospital staff to smoke and that will also lower the reputation of the said hospital.
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Health care organizations would seem likely to move first, since they’ve led the way on policies such as stamping out tobacco use on their premises.
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