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 ...

Medical professionals have some of the highest numbers of nonfatal occupational injuries. In an effort to educate health care workers and facilities on risks and provide solutions, Rutgers School of ...

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 ...

Witnesses at a recent Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee meeting debated a proposed bill that would eliminate manual lifting of patients in healthcare facilities. Speaking 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 ...

When thinking of dangerous jobs, fields like construction and manufacturing likely come to mind. But a study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that hospital workers actually have a higher ...

In 2011, the American Nurses Association surveyed more than 4,614 nurses and found 62 percent were worried about experiencing a disabling musculoskeletal injury — a fear that surpassed concerns of ...

The American Nurses Association provides a free tip sheet on safe patient handling. The tip sheet aims to address the question of, “How can you institute a safe patient handling and movement program ...

Musculoskeletal injuries remain a major hazard for nurses and nursing assistants in hospitals, home health, and other settings, presenters stressed during an ASSP Safety 2019 session on June 11. Jun ...

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 ...