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 ...

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 ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently presented a report to the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors that revealed high rates of healthcare employee injuries ...

Wy’East Medical has an answer for new safe patient lifting mandates like California’s AB 1136 legislation -- the Pink Slip™ for zero-lift patient handling PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Numbers ...

When Donna McDevitt, 51, went through nursing school, her instructors wore nursing caps and white stockings with white shoes. They were hardcore, McDevitt said, dedicated and selfless. Hospitals must ...

A growing network of trained caregivers is transforming how patient movement happens across units and clinics On a day last fall, caregivers from across Duke University Hospital walked into a campus ...

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 ...

Decades of research support legislation to enact safe patient limits for nurses; the bill would task DPH with implementing enforceable limits in hospitals State legislators to also review bills to ...

Working in health care is considered one of the most hazardous jobs in the country, with strains and sprains from lifting patients the source of tens of thousands of injuries each year. Now, with ...