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 ...

You know who they are: patients who are angry, disrespectful, and rude; patients who demand specific drugs or tests, even when they're not indicated; and patients who growl at everyone, act ...

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 ...

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 ...

While many hospitals and healthcare organizations have established safe patient handling programs, unfortunately they are not all effective. (monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images) When thinking of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Direct Healthcare Group, which is backed by ArchiMed, has acquired Stockholm-based Handicare’s Patient Handling division. No financial terms were disclosed. The unit is a specialist provider of ...

Violence against healthcare workers - perpetrated by clients and/or their friends and families - is a growing problem that can severely impact healthcare delivery, but there is limited evidence on the ...