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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Safety vs Safety

I was thinking about safety today. Patient safety and health care employee safety. Why not both at the same time? Why can't we improve patient safety in transfers while at the same time increasing the safety of the caregiver in the very same lift. Not much is fraught with peril as is the semi-ambulatory transfer. Think about it, you are moving someone whose legs and body are defying you the entire time and the if the caregiver makes one little mistake, accident. And if the one little mistake is compounded with an injury to the caregiver, double mistake. And expensive to boot.
Just thinking.
TVR

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