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Addressing Workplace Violence in Health Care Settings

March 7, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Violence in health care is on the rise, jeopardizing the safety and well-being of employees as well as patient...

Lift Slings: Selecting and Using Them Safely in Patient Handling and Mobility

May 1, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Lifts protect caregivers and patients alike by reducing exertion required to move patients from point A to point B....

Healing Heels: The Sole‑Searching Complexities of Heel Pressure Injuries

June 5, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Pressure injuries of the heel are more common than many realize, accounting for 15 to 25% percent of total...

Beyond Blood Sugar: Navigating Skin Complications in Diabetes

June 16, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Skin complications are more common in patients with diabetes than in the general population. Even more, they’re often more...

Happy Nurses and HAPI Prevention

July 21, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Critically ill patients are uniquely susceptible to hospital acquired pressure injuries (often shortened to HAPIs), which create unhappy realities...

Less Sedation, More Mobility: Pursuit of an Awake and Walking ICU

August 21, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Sedation is the default in most ICUs. Yet sedation is more detrimental to patient health than widely recognized for...

Strategies for Safer Trendelenburg and Lithotomy Positioning in the OR

September 19, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Nearly 47% of OR nurses incur a patient handling-related injury at some point in their careers.¹ Musculoskeletal injuries are...

Under Pressure: The Physiologic and Bio‑mechanical Value and Realities of Patient Offloading

October 23, 2025 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Offloading – sometimes called mechanical unloading – is the process of reducing force on body tissue by minimizing or reducing...

Trauma in Motion: Safer Emergency Department Patient Repositioning and Transferring

January 5, 2026 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

When the clock is ticking and lives are on the line, precise patient handling sometimes takes a backseat to...

Cath Lab Safety Essentials: Protecting Patients and Ourselves

March 12, 2026 - Published by Lisa Ripper

Cardiac catheterization laboratories (often called Cath Labs or CCLs) are high-stakes environments for both patients and medical teams. Catheterization lab...

Caring for Patients with Bariatric Disease in the Perioperative Setting

May 4, 2026 - Published by 4our0h1neHoV

Rates of Class 3 obesity are on the rise, necessitating efforts to improve bariatric care, including bariatric perioperative care....

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