Lift aid use in reducing injuries in nursing personnel

描述：医护人员中最突出的受伤风险与抬起和转移病人的体力要求高的任务有关。使用机械升降机可以降低身体需求，但护理人员即使有设备也不会定期使用。这项干预前的研究将侧重于培训急诊护理人员认识到使用这些设备的必要性及其正确使用。在为期6个月的基线数据收集之后，将实施干预措施。干预措施将包括提供培训课程、定期教育提醒和管理人员鼓励使用电梯设备。这项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(工人补偿记录和OSHA日志)将作为次要结果衡量标准进行评估。这项研究还将前瞻性地确定个人和工作组织因素，这些因素可以预测肌肉骨骼损伤和肌肉骨骼症状，并限制护理人员使用提升设备。干预前的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，以及电梯上计数设备的实际电梯使用情况。将在培训结束后大约12个月进行后续调查，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电梯使用情况的数据。

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.