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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernard Valencia's room in the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., illustrates how hospitals across the country could fight a nationwide epidemic. As soon as you enter the ...

Why is manual patient handling unsafe? The cumulative weight a nurse or nursing assistant may have to lift during patient lifts or transfers within an eight-hour shift can be as much as 1.8 tons.

Safe patient handling encompasses strategies and technologies designed to mitigate the high physical loads imposed on healthcare workers during tasks such as lifting, transferring and repositioning ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a new bill requiring all California hospitals to have a safe patient handling policy, including “lift teams” trained to move patients using proper lift equipment ...

Buying equipment and training nurses for safe patient handling costs money. But done well, such efforts can save cash through reduced sick days and workers' compensation claims. With this in mind, it ...