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Evidence-based practices for safe patient handling and movement

- nursingworld.org
A Nelson, AS Baptiste - Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 2006 - Springer
Strategies to prevent or minimize work-related musculoskeletal injuries
associated with patient han- dling are often based on tradition and personal
expe- rience rather than scientific evidence. The most common ...
Cited by 56 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions

Job and organizational determinants of nursing home employee commitment, job satisfaction …


B Karsh, B Booske, F Sainfort - Ergonomics, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
The purpose of this study was to examine whether job characteristics, the work
environment, participation in quality improvement activities and facility
quality improvement environment predicted employee commitment and job ...
Cited by 37 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions

Use of mechanical patient lifts decreased musculoskeletal symptoms and injuries among …


J Li, L Wolf, B Evanoff - Injury Prevention, 2004 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Main outcome measures: Workers completed symptom surveys at baseline and six
months after lift training. Pre-intervention and post-intervention rates of
injuries and lost workday injuries using Occupational Safety and Health ...
Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions

Safe Patient Handling and Movement: Preventing back injury among nurses requires careful …

- springerpub.com [PDF] 
A Nelson, B Owen, JD Lloyd, G Fragala, MW … - AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Nurses have long known that manually lifting and transferring dependent patients
is a high-risk activity, for both nurse and patient. In the 1960s and 1970s, the
rate of work-related back problems in nursing was one of the highest of any ...
Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions

Using narrative text and coded data to develop hazard scenarios for occupational injury …

- bmj.com
AE Lincoln, GS Sorock, TK Courtney, HM … - British Medical Journal, 2004 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Results: Coded data typically only identified five data elements (broad
activity, task, event/exposure, nature of injury, and outcomes) while narratives
provided additional elements (contributing factor, precipitating mechanism, ...
Cited by 22 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions

When is it safe to manually lift a patient?

- safeliftingportal.com [PDF] 
TR WATERS - AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Thomas R. Waters is a research safety engineer in the Division of Applied
Research and Technology at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Cincinnati, OH. ... The author has no significant ties, ...
Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions

Evaluation of an intervention comprising a No Lifting Policy in Australian hospitals

- hongkongpa.com.hk [PDF] 
IL Engkvist - Applied Ergonomics, 2006 - Elsevier
The No Lifting Policy has been adopted in Australia to prevent back pain and
injuries among nurses. The present study focuses on the intervention of the
“No Lift System” (NLS). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was ...
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NIOSH research efforts to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the healthcare industry


T Waters, J Collins, T Galinsky, C Caruso - Orthopaedic Nursing, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Healthcare workers, including orthopaedic nurses, face a number of risk factors
in the workplace for musculoskeletal disorders such as back and shoulder
injuries. These disorders are associated with excessive back and shoulder ...
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Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: A safe patient handling curriculum module …


NN Menzel, NL Hughes, T Waters, LS Shores, … - Nurse Educator, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Authors' Affiliations: Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of
Nevada Las Vegas (Dr Menzel), Las Vegas, Nev; Director, Center for Occupational
and Environmental Health, American Nurses Association (Ms Hughes), Silver ...
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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in physical therapists: a prospective cohort study …

- ptjournalonline.net
M Campo, S Weiser, KL Koenig, M Nordin - Physical Therapy, 2008 - ptjournalonline.net
M Campo, PT, PhD, OCS, is Assistant Professor, Program in Physical Therapy,
Mercy College, 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 (USA). S Weiser, PhD, is
Research Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Environmental ...
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