Effects of a National Safe Patient Handling Program on Nursing Injury Incidence Rates

Abstract

Findings provide evidence to support the effectiveness of a multicomponent approach to SPH programs given contextual considerations.

Low back pain among nurses in Slovenian hospitals: cross‐sectional study

“…; Powell‐Cope et al. ; Speerin et al. ), Slovenian healthcare system planning needs a national strategy to successfully promote LBP preventive and controlling strategies.…”

“…International perspectives for prevention of LBP According to these data and other research evidence (Campo & Darragh 2012;Letvak et al 2012;Taghinejad et al 2015;Yilmaz & Dedeli 2012), managing LBP is a good way to raise nurses' work productivity, improve patient safety, reduce healthcare costs and provide knowledge and skills on LBP to nurses. Safe patient handling policies and programmes have been introduced in the last decades in many developed countries (Andersen et al 2014;Briggs et al 2015;Lee et al 2015;Lidgren et al 2014;Powell-Cope et al 2014;Speerin et al 2014). Measures such as a no-lift policy, safe equipment, training, patient handling protocols and co-workers demonstrating safe practices have yielded the best results (Lee et al 2015;Powell-Cope et al 2014;Theis & Finkelstein 2014).…”

“…Safe patient handling policies and programmes have been introduced in the last decades in many developed countries (Andersen et al 2014;Briggs et al 2015;Lee et al 2015;Lidgren et al 2014;Powell-Cope et al 2014;Speerin et al 2014). Measures such as a no-lift policy, safe equipment, training, patient handling protocols and co-workers demonstrating safe practices have yielded the best results (Lee et al 2015;Powell-Cope et al 2014;Theis & Finkelstein 2014). Briggs et al (2015) investigated Australian models of care (MoC) for musculoskeletal health which demonstrate how to meet requirements within an existing system, reporting: 'As such, MoCs serve as a vehicle to drive evidence into policy and practice at a jurisdictional level' (Briggs et al 2015, p. 2).…”

“…; Powell‐Cope et al. ). The European Union (EU) outlines the basic principles of LBP prevention and treatment in Council Directive 90/269/EEC.…”

“…Indeed, MSDs could be termed 'an epidemic in nursing' (Nutty 2014). For this reason, LBP tends to be addressed through different health and safety procedures, strategies and interventions in hospitals where safe patient handling has been introduced over the last decades in many countries (Andersen et al 2014;Briggs et al 2015;Lee et al 2015;Lidgren et al 2014;Powell-Cope et al 2014). The European Union (EU) outlines the basic principles of LBP prevention and treatment in Council Directive 90/269/EEC.…”