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 ...

As the single largest group of oncology care providers, RNs face a disproportionate risk of exposure to hazardous drugs. It's up to nurse leaders to create and promote a culture of safety. Nurses are ...

despite long-standing recommendations for the safe handling of antineoplastic and other hazardous drugs, many nurses, including pregnant nurses, reported not wearing protective gloves and gowns, the ...

A study published in the American Journal of Nursing examined nurses’ use of double gloves and nonabsorbent gowns when handling or administering antineoplastic drugs, which are known or probable human ...

Nurses will testify before Massachusetts’ Joint Committee on Public Health Oct. 29 in favor of legislation to improve patient handling practices in healthcare facilities. Hospital staff in ...

PHITSANULOK: The management of Buddhachinnaraj Phitsanulok Hospital has apologised for a nurse's violent handling of a patient in his 90s in an intensive care unit. Her actions were videoed and the ...

A nurse who worked at the Texas hospital where two nurses caught Ebola says she “can no longer defend [her] hospital at all” following its handling of multiple Ebola patients. In a Today show ...

A Pitt Meadows nurse has been suspended for mishandling of medication.Shana Novak/Stone/Getty Images A Pitt Meadows nurse has been suspended for two weeks over issues around benzodiazepine and ...

Ensuring men and women have single-sex hospital wards must now be a top priority for clinical, as well as administrative staff. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, ...

One of my nurse managers is great clinically but has an abrasive leader-ship style. Any ideas on how to handle this? Meet with your nurse manager and let her know ahead of time that you want to do ...