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RISE UP Safe patient handling benefits healthcare providers, patients and facilities.
The Case for a Helping Hand
Why every facility needs
safe patient handling
training and technology.
David Bernard
Senior Associate Editor
Your facility has a battery of precautions in place to keep its patients safe. But are you doing enough to protect your staff from harm? Musculoskeletal injuries suffered in the course of manually lifting, moving and positioning patients can end nurses' careers and adversely affect their lives. But they're entirely preventable. Here are 3 arguments for adopting safe patient handling policies and practices.
Health care is hazardous
Consider this: The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health warns workers of all stripes against manually lifting more than 30 pounds by themselves. "That's a box, with handles. But people don't have handles," says