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.

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 ...

The American Nurses Association announced the release of national standards for safe patient handling and mobility to improve safety for both healthcare workers and patients. The ANA convened an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The benefits of early mobility for patient recovery are well established and were discussed in part 1 of this series (Rindsland, 2021a), along with the pivotal role of nurses and other caregivers in ...

The health care industry employs more than 18 million workers in the US, and patient care-related injuries, especially those related to moving patients, are a common cause of work disability in this ...

Dr. Rudi Eggers is Director, Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters; Dr. Irina Papieva is Technical Officer, Patient Safety Flagship, Integrated Health Services, WHO ...

Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control finds and is provided with a wide range of downloadable tools and resources designed to help healthcare providers improve the quality of ...

The Dash Review, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, was published last week. In the end we had to wait until after the 10-Year Health Plan. Although many of the patient safety ...