title: Lifting and handling. Strategies for altering practice.
abstract: The elderly services directorate at the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has already embarked on changing nurses' patient-handling practice in response to EC regulations. This paper describes how problems hindered the programme's initial success and explores how new strategies have been implemented to overcome them.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hack
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Potter
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D017770:Lifting; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011187:Posture