Creating a safe patient handling program can help reduce injuries and time lost due to injury. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and ...

Safe patient handling programs help reduce nurse injuries. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and workplace violence. According to the ...

Hospital and health system risk managers are most concerned about patient handling, according to a recent Aon report, Health Care Workers Compensation Barometer. About a third of hospital employee ...

As nurses and other health care workers continue to suffer high levels of lifting-related musculoskeletal injuries, safety managers are working to establish workplace patient handling regimens before ...

Devastating physical and financial blows have been felt for years from both sides of the hospital curtain due to the alarming rate of healthcare workforce injuries. According to the American Nurses ...

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Safe-handling rules, caregiver injuries, aging and staff shortages are driving air-assisted, single-use transfers, creating hospital and Asia-Pacific expansion ...

UC’s Academic Health Center colleges have come together to create a space in which nursing, physical and occupational therapy students, and health aids can learn how to safely care for patients. The ...