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Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > December, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 12

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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