Lift aid use in reducing injuries in nursing personnel

产品说明：卫生保健工作者中最突出的伤害风险与提升和转移患者的体力要求任务有关。 使用机械升降机可以降低对身体的要求，但护理人员即使在可用的情况下也不会定期使用这些设备。 这项干预前后研究将重点培训急诊护理人员，以认识到使用器械的必要性及其正确使用。 在基线数据收集6个月后，将实施干预措施。 干预措施将包括提供培训课程、定期教育提醒和鼓励管理人员使用升降机设备。 该研究将使用症状患病率和严重程度、工作满意度、报告的心理社会压力源以及报告和实际使用电梯的主要结果来评估干预的有效性。 此外，行政记录（工人赔偿记录和OSHA日志）将作为次要结局指标进行评价。 这项研究还将前瞻性地确定预测肌肉骨骼损伤和肌肉骨骼症状的个人和工作组织因素，以及限制护理人员使用升降机设备的因素。 干预前数据收集将包括基线肌肉骨骼症状和工作满意度调查、确定电梯使用情况的访谈以及通过计算电梯上的设备得出的实际电梯使用情况。 在培训完成后约12个月，将进行随访调查，以收集症状和工作满意度信息。 在整个研究期间，将持续收集报告和实际移位机使用的数据。

DESCRIPTION: The most prominent risks for injuries among health care workers are associated with the physically demanding tasks of lifting and transferring patients. The use of mechanical lifts can lower the physical demands but nursing personnel do no regularly use the devices even when they are available. This pre-post intervention study will focus on training acute care nursing personnel to recognize the need for using the devices and their correct use. Following 6 months of baseline data collection, the intervention will be implemented. The intervention will consist of provision of training sessions, periodic educational reminders and management encouragement to use the lift devices. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention using primary outcomes of symptom prevalence and severity, job satisfaction, reported psychosocial stressors, and reported and actual lift usage. Additionally, administrative records (workers' compensation records and OSHA logs) will be evaluated as secondary outcome measures. The study will also prospectively identify personal and work organization factors that predict musculoskeletal injury and musculoskeletal symptom and that limit the use of lift devices by nursing personnel. Pre-intervention data collection will include baseline musculoskeletal symptoms and job satisfaction survey, interviews to determine lift usage, and actual lift usage from counting devices on the lifts. Follow-up surveys will be used to collect symptoms and job satisfaction information approximately 12 months following completion of the training. Collection of data for reported and actual lift usage will be ongoing throughout the study period.