Manual Handling Workload and Musculoskeletal Discomfort in Nursing Personnel
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...Forty six studies, including the author's doctoral research (Menzel, 2001), were chosen for further review....
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...34 When the Severity Indexes were used as the dependent variables, there were no significant regression coefficients for any body part....
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...When these reactions occur frequently over a prolonged time period, they lead to health disorders.”...
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...3 When Leighton and Reilly (1995) surveyed 1134 British nurses about back pain, two-thirds of those reporting an annual back pain prevalence attributed their injuries to patient handling or movement....
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...When the questionnaires were returned, they were coded and stripped of participants’ names....
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...Nursing Workload Measurement Systems When administrators determine the number and type of nursing staff to assign to a hospital or nursing home unit, they use a variety of “nurse demand methods” (Arthur & James, 1994, p. 558)....
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...For example, Owen and Garg (1991) found that transferring a patient from wheelchair to toilet exceeds NIOSH action limits for L5/S1 spinal loading each time it is performed....
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...Patient Handling and Movement Risk Factor Assessment Heavy patients are more burdensome than light ones due to the increased force needed to move them (Owen & Garg ,1991; Owen et al., 2000/2001; Winkelmolen, Landeweerd, & Drost, 1994; Zhuang et al., 1999)....
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...Owen and Garg (1991) and Nelson et al. (2001) rank ordered at-risk patient handling and movement tasks in terms of participant-reported stressfulness....
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...11 Nevertheless, Owen and Garg (1991) made some estimates of high-risk (1st level) patient handling tasks using the first NIOSH Lifting Equation (NIOSH, 1981)....
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...Injuries to the back or back pain are the most frequent outcome variables in cohort or cross-sectional studies of nursing personnel (Fuortes, Shi, Zhang, Zwerling, & Schootman, 1994; Harber et al., 1987; Hignett, 1996; Kumar, 1990; Leighton & Reilly, 1995; Smedley et al., 1995; Stobbe et al., 1988; Stubbs et al., 1983)....
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...Stobbe et al. (1988) divided study participants into two groups, based on high or low frequency of patient lifting....
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...…back pain are the most frequent outcome variables in cohort or cross-sectional studies of nursing personnel (Fuortes, Shi, Zhang, Zwerling, & Schootman, 1994; Harber et al., 1987; Hignett, 1996; Kumar, 1990; Leighton & Reilly, 1995; Smedley et al., 1995; Stobbe et al., 1988; Stubbs et al., 1983)....
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...Stobbe et al. (1988) demonstrated that frequency of lifting was related to the incidence of back injury....
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...Winkelmolen et al. (1994) studied a variety of two person manual techniques to move a patient up in bed....
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...Table 6 Compressive Forces Patient 1 (75 kg) Patient 2 (55 kg) Australian lift 3900 kN 3300 kN Orthodox lift 4200 3500 Barrow lift 4500 4000 Through arm lift 4100 3700 Under-arm lift 4100 3700 Source: Winkelmolen et al. (1994)....
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...Winkelmolen et al. (1994) found there was a significant difference in L5/S1 compressive force when a 75 kg patient was lifted versus a 55 kg patient, with the heavier patient producing more compressive force even in a two person manual lift....
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