Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: a safe patient handling curriculum module for nursing schools.
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.
Menzel
Nancy N
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College of Nursing, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154-3018, USA. dr.nancy@gmail.com
Hughes
Nancy L
NL
Waters
Thomas
T
Shores
Lynne S
LS
Nelson
Audrey
A
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