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.

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 ...

Sliding patients up the bed is one of the most common patient-handling manoeuvres that nurses undertake. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning units, procedures, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Health (DoH) has called for the end of manual handling of patients to prevent risks of injury from lifting. About 5,000 nurses are currently being treated for back pain as a result ...

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 ...

Sliding patients up the bed is one of the most common patient-handling manoeuvres that nurses undertake. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning units, procedures, ...