Safe Patient Handling In the News
ANA has advocated for the elimination of manual patient handling for almost two decades to protect registered nurses from the risk of debilitating musculoskeletal injury. ANA is working to spread its message through the media.
Resources
- Nurses Get a Lift - DOTmed Business News (8/1/10)
- "'We've found that if nurses don't feel safe in the workplace, it does make a difference whether they stay in the nursing profession, and also what type of nursing they do,' says Nancy Hughes, the director of American Nurses Association's center of environmental and occupational health."