Lifting patients: the challenge for nursing.
This article examines how nursing will need to respond to the guidelines included in the new Health and Safety Regulations on the minimum requirements for the handling of loads. Many lifts that nurses undertake are called into question and the author outlines where nurses may be at risk and suggests alternative methods to lifting. The article also looks at what can go wrong when decisions about lifting miss out key points related to lifting stance and sequence.
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D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D016272:Occupational Health; D011187:Posture