EHOB Blog
How Education Helps in Implementing a Safe Patient Handling Program
This blog post is based on Episode 3 of the EHOB No Pressure Podcast, featuring guest Kelly Moed, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CSPHP. To hear this episode or explore others, click here. If you’re a clinician who’s explored the safe patient handling movement, you might be excited about establishing a safe patient handling program at your…
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Starting a Safe Patient Handling Program at Your Facility
This blog post is based on Episode 2 of the EHOB No Pressure Podcast, featuring guest Kelly Moed, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CSPHP. To hear this episode or explore others, click here. Unfortunately, across the US, many clinicians work in healthcare facilities without formal safe patient handling programs, leaving them vulnerable to injury and chronic musculoskeletal…
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The Tripledemic and Pressure Injuries Combine, Creating Challenges for Clinicians
The ED braces for a barrage of COVID, RSV and flu patients while WOCNs brace for an uptick in pressure injuries. As if it wasn’t challenging enough to be a clinician in the Emergency Department, hospitals across the country are bracing for what some have termed a ‘tripledemic’ of seasonal illnesses. An upswing in COVID…
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2023 New Year’s Resolutions for Healthcare Workers
Let 2023 be the year you resolve to engage in meaningful self-care, because you can’t show up for your patients if you don’t show up for yourself. Self-care isn’t just advised, it’s paramount. This is true for everyone, but it is especially so for healthcare workers. You can’t work toward better patient outcomes if you…
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5 Reasons to Implement Safe Patient Handling Practices at Your Facility
This blog post is based on Episode 1 of the EHOB No Pressure Podcast, featuring guest Kelly Moed, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CSPHP. To hear this episode or explore others, click here. All healthcare facilities–from hospitals to rehabilitation centers to long-term care facilities–require clinical staff to interact physically with patients. Lifting, turning and repositioning patients is…
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Stop Them Before They Start
Pressure injuries are painful, quite often increase patient lengths of stay and carry an annual mortality rate of nearly 60,000. Decubitus ulcers. Bedsores. Pressure injuries. The name has changed but the problem hasn’t. The number of people afflicted with pressure injuries each year continues to hover at two and a half million while hospitals shell…
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All Hands on Deck
Manual Patient Positioning, Happy Staff, and the Power of Human Touch Countless studies across industries have touted the benefits of human interaction, connection, and touch. It’s why newborns are placed immediately with their mothers, if possible. And it’s why shaking hands is customary upon first meeting. It’s what makes us human. But with technology bursting…
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It’s hard to argue with science
The Science Behind Static Air Technology Newton. Pascal. Archimedes. Boyle. Heavy hitters in science, without a doubt, but what do they have to do with static air technology? Everything! Their scientific principles regarding immersion, buoyancy, and heat transfer — just to name a few — are the blueprints for modern-day reactive air support surfaces using…
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