title: Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: a safe patient handling curriculum module for nursing schools.
abstract: Nursing educators who teach outmoded manual patient handling techniques contribute to the widespread problem of musculoskeletal disorders in student and practicing nurses. The authors discuss the development and implementation of a new safe patient handling curriculum module, which was pilot tested in 26 nursing programs. The module changes the focus of patient handling education from body mechanics to equipment-assisted safe patient lifting programs that have been shown to protect nurses from injury and improve care.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154-3018, USA. dr.nancy@gmail.com
authors.forename: Nancy N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Menzel
authors.forename: Nancy L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Waters
authors.forename: Lynne S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Shores
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D017770:Lifting; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014481:United States