Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders in Nurses – a Safe Patient Handling Curriculum Module for Nursing Schools

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• Personal Author:
  Hughes NL ; Menzel NN ; Nelson A ; Shores LS ; Waters, Thomas R. ; Hughes NL ; Menzel NN ; Nelson A ; Shores LS ; Waters, Thomas R.
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Personnel Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Health-care Health-care-personnel Injuries Injury-prevention Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Occupational-health Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-practices Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0363-3624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maryland ; Massachusetts ; Nevada ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  130-135
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032305
• Citation:
  Nurse Educ 2007 May-Jun; 32(3):130-135
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. Nancy N. Menzel, University of Nevada, School of Nursing, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 453018, Las Vegas, NV 89154
• Email:
  dr.nancy@gmad.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Nurse Educator
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:78c796ac280036c8ebbfc3156ca88f23407bd4c0cee020a65d7d776879e7518f1483468373995938c316f488c1e2f7663dfd96c0aa075e7f3b2073727718c649
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186329/cdc_186329_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 398.98 KB ]