The illustrated guide to safe patient handling and movement / Audrey L. Nelson, Kathleen Motacki, Nancy Nivison Menzel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Audrey, PhD

Motacki, Kathleen.

Menzel, Nancy Nivison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transport of sick and wounded--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Transport of sick and wounded.

Patients--Positioning--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Patients.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Did you know that an estimated 12% of nurses leave the profession annually because of back injuries and that over half of RNs complain of chronic back pain?. This book presents best practices in safe patient handling and movement. Nurse and hospital administrators, clinicians, clinical managers, risk managers, and those involved in procurement and implementation of patient handling technologies in the health care environment will find this a practical resource for improving care and protecting staff from unnecessary injury. You will come away from reading this book with information that you ca

Contents:

Contents; Contributing Authors; Forewords; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Common Patient-Transfer Tasks (Across Multiple Settings); Chapter 3: Bariatric Patient-Handling Tasks; Chapter 4: Medical-Surgical Nursing; Chapter 5: Critical Care; Chapter 6: Orthopaedics; Chapter 7: Pediatrics; Chapter 8: Labor and Delivery; Chapter 9: Patient-Handling Tasks in Rehabilitation; Chapter 10: Nursing Home; Appendix A: Algorithms; Appendix B: Pediatric Slings Guide; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I

LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78268-406-9

OCLC:

476263668