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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Devastating physical and financial blows have been felt for years from both sides of the hospital curtain due to the alarming rate of healthcare workforce injuries. According to the American Nurses ...

The Journal of Nursing Administration, Vol. 39, No. 4 (APRIL 2009), pp. 170-175 (6 pages) Nurses continue to experience injuries related to patient handling. These injuries are costly to hospitals in ...

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 national survey was the first of its kind to expose the problem of career-ending injuries. Out of the 509 nurses and 404 radiology technicians that were interviewed, 56 percent of the nurses and ...

Stanford Hospital & Clinics has released a new risk management methodology called value-driven enterprise risk management, according to a release from Stanford. Based on the new methodology, Stanford ...

Rutland Regional Medical Center recognizes that the safety of its patients and staff is very important and recently took steps to make our safe culture even safer. Rutland Regional has paired with ...

As communities in Leominster, Taunton, and across Massachusetts fight back against hospital service closures, proposed MNA bill would give DPH power to take over hospitals or free-standing clinics to ...