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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices ...

Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among health care workers, a small study suggests. Researchers analyzed data ...

(Reuters Health) - Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among healthcare workers, a small study suggests.

What do you get when you combine a national obesity crisis with an aging workforce? Injured nurses, says the nursing union that forced a South Jersey hospital to provide more training and equipment to ...

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 ...

Hospital workers face serious hazards, including: lifting and moving patients, workplace violence, slips and falls, exposure to chemicals and hazardous drugs, exposures to infectious diseases and ...