Learning safe patient handling skills: Student nurse experiences of university and practice based education

Kneafsey, Rosie; Haigh, Carol

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2006.11.005

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“…Young adult university students who spend too much time sitting with a slouched posture during studying, computer use, or daily activities are a risk group. Moreover, sedentary behavior, inadequate nutrition, and stress in this group may increase the potential risk (23)(24)(25). Revealing accurate strategies for prevention and treatment might be of utmost importance.…”

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confidence: 99%

An 8-week thoracic spine stabilization exercise program improves postural back pain, spine alignment, postural sway, and core endurance in university students:a randomized controlled study

Çelenay

Kaya

2017

Turk J Med Sci

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Background/aim: To investigate the effects of an 8-week thoracic stabilization exercise program on back pain, spinal alignment, postural sway, and core endurance in university students.Materials and methods: University students were randomly allocated into exercise (n: 28) and control (n: 25) groups. The exercise program was carried out 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Postural pain, spinal alignment, postural sway, and core endurance were assessed via visual analogue scale, Spinal Mouse, Biodex Balance System, and McGill's trunk muscle endurance tests at the baseline and after 8 weeks of training.Results: Differences were observed for postural pain, thoracic and lumbar curvature, dynamic stability index (eyes closed), and core endurance scores in the exercise group between baseline and week 8 (P < 0.05) and all the parameters were significantly different when compared to those of the control group (P < 0.05). Conclusions:The program decreased postural pain, spinal curvatures, and postural sway, and increased core endurance in university students. The program can be effective in postural pain and misalignment of spine problems related to core weakness and balance disorders.

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confidence: 99%

An 8-week thoracic spine stabilization exercise program improves postural back pain, spine alignment, postural sway, and core endurance in university students:a randomized controlled study

Çelenay

Kaya

2017

Turk J Med Sci

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“…The studies in the literature [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] defining and evaluating patient handling/transfer training programs are surveyed in this section.…”

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“…A possible reason to why safe patient handling/transfer trainings did not work in practice is the job of the health care workers can be very hard and stressful. Thus, they cannot apply the required movements for safe lifting [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Developing and Designing Patient Handling/Transfer Assistive Devices: Current & Future Designs

Baturalp

2013

ATLAS

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Many health care facilities deal with challenges associated with safe patient handling and movement. Back injuries are a serious problem for nursing personnel who perform frequent patient handling activities. The main objectives of this study are to demonstrate the necessity of patient handling/transfer assistive devices, explore the economic benefits of them, review current assistive patient transfer devices, and investigate design parameters of an ideal patient handling/transfer assistive device. This paper also focuses on the importance of the transdisciplinary collaboration in developing and designing patient handling/transfer assistive devices.

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“…While this study was limited in that it had a very small sample size and a low response rate, with participants potentially excluding themselves from the study if they did not have any experience of violence to report, even one case is worthy of further investigation by educational institutions as the protection of students is paramount. Other concerns regarding negative experiences while on clinical placement, including physical injury and manual handling (17,18), violence (19,20) and bullying (15,16,(21)(22)(23), have been reported in nursing allied health fields. While these studies were not paramedic specific, it is reasonable to assume that there may be some parallels given the nature of the work encountered.…”

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Student Perceptions of Adverse Health Events During Ambulance Clinical Placements

Sheen

Boyd

Eastwood

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EDU

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This pilot study intended to augment current literature in the clinical placement field by investigating the frequency and nature of adverse health events experiences by paramedic students undertaking ambulance clinical placements. Supports accessed post event were also reviewed. A purposive sample of fifty-six paramedic students completed the questionnaire. The results indicate that a number of students experience adverse health events while on clinical placement, with fourteen cases of verbal abuse, one case of physical abuse, nine cases of sexualised behavior and seven cases of psychological distress reported. While some case related incidents were flagged by ambulance services and followed up by peer support, students did not initiate any formal support processes themselves. Moreover, no student filed a formal report regarding any of the incidents raised. The results of this pilot study require further investigation. In the interim, the benefits of clinical placements must be weighed against their risks, and processes put in place to minimize the risk to students undertaking clinical placements.

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Learning safe patient handling skills: Student nurse experiences of university and practice based education

Cited by 33 publications

References 22 publications

An 8-week thoracic spine stabilization exercise program improves postural back pain, spine alignment, postural sway, and core endurance in university students:a randomized controlled study

An 8-week thoracic spine stabilization exercise program improves postural back pain, spine alignment, postural sway, and core endurance in university students:a randomized controlled study

Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Developing and Designing Patient Handling/Transfer Assistive Devices: Current & Future Designs

Student Perceptions of Adverse Health Events During Ambulance Clinical Placements

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