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Home > Archive > December 2006

Give Your Nurses a Lift

Our hospital's patient-handling program saves backs, bumps and bucks.

Cathy Krueger, PT, and Ron Zimmerman, PE, CHSP, CSP

If you're concerned about nurses wrenching their backs and patients losing their footing, you can implement a program, just as we did at our hospital, that minimizes manual lifting.

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Equipping Your OR, Patient Management, Safety

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