Teaching manual handling through risk assessment empowers the nursing team to provide safe mobility-related care: A qualitative analysis
Helen Kugler,
Natasha Brusco,
Susan Slade
et al.
Abstract:Introduction: Mobilisation of hospital patients is important for their functioning, and nurses play an important role in providing assistance. Manual handling training programs aim to help nurses to move patients safely, but most do not include dynamic risk assessment. We aimed to explore the experiences of members of the nursing team working in inpatient wards in a private hospital who participated in the manual handling training program Risk Assessment for moving Individuals SafEly (RAISE).
Methods: Members … Show more
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