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Hospitals in two states recently were in the difficult position of having to disagree with a family about terminating life support for patients declared dead.
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Every day, nurses face a barrage of threats, insults and assaults from patients or visitors, yet almost half never report verbal or physical assaults.
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You bought lift equipment, trained your staff and added new patient mobility assessments. Yet your injuries continue. What gives?
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Older workers are generally safer workers, but there is one risk that rises steadily with age: slips, trips and falls.
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While there is no national standard requiring safe patient handling, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is making an all-out appeal to hospitals to do the right thing and to recognize the potential cost-savings.
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A growing number of health care workers are coming into their profession with childhood vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV).
