Safe Patient Handling in Healthcare
March 14-21 Is Patient Safety Awareness Week. Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care, and a reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum; it is a vital component of quality healthcare provision. Improving patient safety creates improvements in patient care experience, the quality of care delivery, and cost-efficiency in care, enabling improved outcomes for patients, healthc
Celebrating Personal Support Workers’ Day
Today, Able Innovations expresses our gratitude for personal support workers, and our commitment to improving their quality of work-life through technological advances. Personal support workers, (also known as Nursing Aides, Unlicensed Assistive personnel, and Home Healthcare Aides) are hidden figures that play a crucial role in the upkeep of the health of vulnerable Canadians. In hospitals, PSWs and nurses work together closely in providing patient care. Outside of acute car
November is Fall Prevention Month
Click here to find out more about Fall Prevention: www.fallpreventionmonth.ca November is fall prevention month here in Canada. Among older Canadians, falls are the main factor of injury-related hospitalizations. Falls are a rising concern among today’s ever growing and ageing population. In Ontario alone, there were over 250,000 emergency department visits and 60,000 hospitalizations for those aged 65 and over in 2014-15. The majority of these falls occur due to simple trips
