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Nancy N Menzel1, Nancy L Hughes, Thomas Waters
1College of Nursing, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154-3018, USA. dr.nancy@gmail.com
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.
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