The illustrated guide to safe patient handling and movement
By: Audrey L. Nelson, Kathleen Motacki, Nancy Nivison Menzel.
Contributors: Nelson, Audrey, PhD.; Motacki, Kathleen.; Menzel, Nancy Nivison.
Publisher: Springer Pub.; Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780826115683
Subjects: Transport of sick and wounded -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Patients -- Positioning -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Moving and Lifting Patients; Transportation of Patients; Safety Management -- methods
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: In this handbook the authors demonstrate another way to do the heavy lifting, sustained awkward positioning, excessive reaching, and static posturing often required in nursing. Learn about the new techniques and technologies specifically designed to reduce caregiver and patient injuries. The authors present the Evidence-Based Safe Patient Handling Program, a practical system of guidelines to be used in numerous clinical settings. Each chapter explains how to apply the program to specific clinical settings, such as medical and surgical, critical care, orthopaedics, pediatrics, labor and delivery, rehabilitation settings, the perioperative suite, and nursing homes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Common patient-transfer tasks (across multiple settings) / Nancy N. Menzel, MaryLou Muir, and Simon Wells; title: Bariatric patient-handling tasks / Mary Lou Muir; title: Medical-surgical nursing / Laurette Wright and Elly Waaijer; title: Critical care / Andrea Baptiste and Patricia Mechan; title: Orthopaedics / Carol A. Sedlak and Margaret O'Bryan Doheny; title: Pediatrics / Kathleen Motacki; title: Labor and delivery / Laura Murphy, Jennifer Giordano, and Kathleen Motacki; title: Patient-handling tasks in rehabilitation / Karen Manning; title: Nursing home / Linn Steer and Laurette Wright.