Musculoskeletal Injury In Nursing

By understanding nursing sensitive indicators, the nurses in this case could improve the structure, process, and outcomes of their nursing care. The structure of nursing care is indicated by the supply of nursing staff and the skill level of the nursing staff. By the nurses having increased knowledge of the issues hip fracture patients are prone to having, such as decrease mobility, increase need for surgical intervention, and increase risk of falls, could help improve the quality of patient care. A patient with decrease mobility is at higher risk for pressure sores. The nurses in this case may have prevented the one by proper

The Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2015, or H.R. 4266, was reintroduced to congress in December of 2015 by Representative John Conyers and Senator Al Franken (Mitchell & Dawson, 2016). It is legislation that attempts to protect patients, nurses, nurse assistants, and other healthcare workers from injuries as a result of unsafe patient handling and mobilization. Congress found that in 2014, registered nurses were the sixth largest profession who were reporting musculoskeletal disorders and injuries as a result of their employment with 11,360 cases; the second highest profession in 2014 of reported musculoskeletal injuries was nursing assistants with 20,020 cases (H.R. 4266, 2015).

Patient safety is a concern in the hospital setting. Missed nursing care due to high nurse patient ratios, or staffing issues leads to patient falls. Patient falls tend to be a big issue and expensive matter for hospitals nationwide. This paper will focus on a qualitative research article regarding missed nursing care, staffing, and patient falls. Included will be a summary of the research, methods and research used in the study, significance of the research findings, ethical considerations, and a conclusion.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is supporting efforts to reduce or eliminate musculoskeletal injuries associated with lifting, repositioning, and transferring patients. According to the American Nurses Association (2016), the average nurse will lift 1.8 tons per shift and over 38% of nurses will experience a back injury during his or her career. The ANA endorses legislation that requires healthcare facilities to implement the use of patient handling assistive equipment. Through this initiative, the ANA hopes to ease some of the nursing shortage issues that are compounded by work-related injuries.

Nurses find themselves in the middle of a complex health care system between the financial side and patient safety. A professional nurse’s goal is to provide safe, quality, patient care. However, nurses often fail to meet this goal due to the variability in patient acuity, the unpredictable workload of nurses, and institutional budget constraints (ANA, 2014). According to the American Nurses Association (2014) research shows that lower staffing levels of registered nurses correlate with poor patient outcomes, as well as negative nurse outcomes, such as physical injury and ‘burnout.’

Safety is the most important factor for patients receiving care within healthcare organizations. Health care workers and team members most especially nurses play an important role in the protection of the patients ensuring prevention of falls and injuries that occur as a result from falls. Falls are known to be the second leading cause of death from unintentional injuries worldwide (Mitchell, 2017). Nurses have the onus to keep their patients safe from falls and associated injuries daily. Patients that have been hospitalized are at higher risk of falls. Nurses have various tasks to be done per shift and it is important to ensure time is made available to meet

What nurse in an inpatient setting has not experienced the horrible feeling of feeling completely responsible for a patient fall? No matter how many checks, alarms, or rating tools employed, falls are an inevitable part of every nurses’ practice. The Joint Commission recognizes that falls are among the highest reported sentinel events for hospitalized patients. When a patient falls, it costs the hospital an average of $14,000 and adds over 6 days to the patient’s stay. (Quigley & White, 2013) In the article “Missed Nursing Care, Staffing, and Patient Falls” by Kalisch, Tschannen and Lee (2012) the authors examine whether patient falls are more impacted by inappropriate staffing, or missed nursing care. Through the process of

This paper addresses how mandatory overtime shifts cause safety problems on the floor, and how these shifts impact nurses’ safety. Safety errors can happen in the blink of an eye, and happen more than most healthcare systems would like to admit. On-going issues with nursing shortages have led to an increase in the amount of hours worked overtime. Numerous studies show that mandatory overtime causes an increase in safety errors among nurses in the healthcare setting. According to the article based on the observational study titled, “Scheduling and shift work characteristics associated with risk for occupation injury in newly licensed registered nurses”, there is a direct association between overtime and night shifts and an increased risk for injury (Stimpfel, Brewer, & Kovner, 2015). The statistics from this study show the serious impact overtime can have on a nurses’ safety, with results stating that “nurses working weekly overtime were associated with a 32% increase in the risk of a needle stick” over those who did not work extended hours (Stimpfel, 2015).

Nursing and healthcare continue to change on a daily basis. The one thing that has remained constant during these changes is maintaining the safety of our patients. By maintaining their safety, nurses must ensure that they are keeping up-to-date with the changes in technology now being introduced in healthcare, new and emerging diseases, new equipment, and changes in treatment modalities. One such responsibility is ensuring that nurses do not operate equipment they were not oriented to or trained to use in an effort to prevent injury patients. Nurses and other healthcare professionals are being held accountable for practicing within their scope of practice based on their licensure regulations, and the company policies and procedures. Therefore, nurses are responsible for their professional growth and practice by ensuring that they comply with the necessary standards required by their profession.

injuries that associated with falls in nursing is remains to be a mains reason why elderly people admitted and readmission to most hospital every year .these injury fall continue to cause a lot of damage to elderly people this including increasing in morbidity and mortality. This fall also add more stress to the patient, family and healthcare institution due to unnecessary expense. In this article the author is discussing about the effect of Fall-related injuries and its consequences to patients, family and to private /public

In beginning of a her career she is a licensed physical therapist in ROHC and provided physical therapy treatment and her goal is to prevent work related musculoskeletal injuries. She is experienced over 15 years in treating orthopedic injuries caused by occupation. As a Pilates instructor she used to train rehabilitation professionals. She is expert in using neck and back stabilizing techniques on patients and ergonomic clients. She is now Director of Physical Therapy department at Nova Pain and Rehabilitation. Her quest in field of ergonomics made her to establish an ergonomic evaluating office Ergo-RX and provides custom furnishings to the clients. As an ergonomist and physical therapist, Jeannie incorporates her physical therapy treatment and prevention of injuries to the clients and patients she is serving

There are many effects it takes to be a nurse, some good and some bad. There are many factors that can influence stress on a nurse. There are many pros, cons and effects on nurses. In the article, “The Long Term Effects On Your Body From Being a Nurse”, the pros is that nursing is a delightful blend of on intellectual and physical aspects of the nurses mind and body. The cons in this article are that every time you pull up a patient in bed, help transfer, or take care of a shaky patient, this puts yourself at risk for injury. The effects of all of this are that nursing can affect your knees, back, and feet. Nurses are known for having sore feet, the knee pain is associated with lifting, bending, and squatting. In my second article, “10 Must-Know

There are various definitions when it comes to describing the profession of nursing. It is a job that has many different factors involved, including their responsibilities as a nurse, the patient as a person, the patient’s health, and the environment they create. In order to be the ideal nurse, each of these must be a top priority. My philosophy is influenced by the original nursing paradigm, because I believe that the four major components are equally important. A nurse should do their best to create a clean environment, have a positive relationship with their patient, do what they can to restore their health, and care for whatever the patient needs. When I was a senior in high school, on the first day of soccer practice I tore my meniscus

Despite the national, state, local regulations in place injuries are at an all-time high worldwide. These statements lead us to a startling conclusion in order to provide safe and effective patient care we have to provide safe working conditions for our staff.

The physical therapy department is under the direction of department of orthopedic surgery. The student nurse where taught in an actual program the preparation of the use in physical therapy to gain experience. The first step towards the program was to plan a faculty education program which would arouse the active interest of supervisors, head nurses, and the general staff in potential of the value of this service to nursing. Physical therapy can help prevent psychological, emotional, and economical problems. The object for the student program is to assist in providing each student nurse with specially planned instructions and guidance in the principles of body mechanics and posture which will enable them to give better nursing care to their