Patient Transfers and the Preventive Effects for Over-Exertion Back Injury of Training and use of Transfer Devices among Nursing Personnel
| Autor: | Mats Hagberg, Inga-Lill Engkvist, Ewa Wigaeus Hjelm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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030505 public health
business.industry 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology medicine.disease Back injury Medical Terminology 03 medical and health sciences Nursing Transfer (computing) Relative risk PATIENT TRANSFERS Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences In patient Exertion 0305 other medical science business Patient transfer Medical Assisting and Transcription |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 44:5-427 |
| ISSN: | 1071-1813 2169-5067 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/154193120004403007 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Nursing personnel have a high prevalence of occupational back injuries compared to other occupational groups. AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the preventive effects of training and use of transfer devices for reported over-exertion back injuries among nursing personnel involved in patient transfer. RESULTS: Nurses who transferred patients once or more per shift had an increased relative risk (RR=3.3, 95%CI=2.2–5.1). Nurses who had got training in how to use the transfer devices on their own ward showed a lower relative risk for patient transfer (RR=1.6, CI=0.9–2.8) compared to nurses without training (RR=6.0, CI=3.0–12.0). Also the use of transfer devices in ≥1/4 of all patient transfers, reduced the relative risk (RR=1.5, CI=0.6–3.4) compared to nurses who seldom used devices (RR=3.9, CI=2.3–6.6) DISCUSSION: The results show the importance of training the nurses in how to use the transfer devices on their wards and to encourage the nurses to use the transfer devices frequently during patient transfer. This presupposes that necessary and good transfer devices are available on all wards. |
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