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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loss aversion is the concept that losses are more psychologically impactful than gains. This is the most important idea in behavioral decision-making (1,2,3) and plays a huge role in healthcare. Loss ...

When a person falls, it is important that safe methods are used to move them, to avoid causing pain and/or further injury. This is critical to their chances of making a full recovery. Safe manual ...

If your job involves lifting or carrying heavy or awkwardly-shaped equipment, or repetitive lifting, you need to know how to minimise the risk of injury - this Guideline should help. Injuries caused ...

The manual handling procedure to help a seated patient into a standing position. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning units, procedures, AI-powered tools, expert ...

Injuries caused by manual handling (particularly to the back, shoulders and neck) are a significant contributor to sickness absence statistics. Those most at risk of injury are those who aren't used ...