Nursing OH&S Hazards

Patient care is deteriorating in the ward setting, as nurses are often overworked in their daily jobs. This is due to understaffing, long hours and high stress; thus results in errors of nursing care, and ultimately, compromises a patient's health. Some associated hazards, and how they are identified and managed, are looked at. These include: medication errors, poor manual handling techniques, critical points of care being skipped over or missed completely, short cuts in procedures, …

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