There are multiple ways to prevent nurse injuries from patient handling. Find out the pros and cons of various interventions. It's no secret that America's healthcare workers are in danger of injuries ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) - National observances are a dime a dozen, fighting to claim a spot on the calendar as their own, with platforms as solid as National Sister’s Day and as iffy as Zucchini Bread Day ...

Just about everybody who has studied the hospital industry agrees that it needs to confront the epidemic that plagues many of its staff: Tens of thousands of nursing employees suffer debilitating ...

EMSA has introduced new technology to Oklahoma that will make lifting patients a breeze. It's called the HoverMatt, and makes moving patients safer for everyone involved. The way paramedics currently ...

We've all heard the old adage attributed to Benjamin Franklin that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." And while Franklin's famous words were written nearly 285 years ago, they still ...

The medical center is saving money. Employees are avoiding injury. Future nurses are getting early exposure to hospital work. And patients are appreciative. It is all the result of the newly ...

Decades of research support legislation to enact safe patient limits for nurses; the bill would task DPH with implementing enforceable limits in hospitals State legislators to also review bills to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with severe or "end stage" kidney disease can safely participate in weight lifting during dialysis and it seems to improve their quality of life, according to a ...

David Victor remembers the moment the rock 'n’ roll bug bit him as if it were yesterday and not 46 years ago. “I was sitting on my front lawn and my sister's boyfriend at the time was playing an ...