The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

by Nelson, Audrey L., Ph.D.; Motacki, Kathleen; Menzel, Nancy Nivison, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780826115683
• ISBN10: 0826115683
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-27
• Publisher: Springer Pub Co

Summary

The authors present the Evidence-Based Safe Patient Handling Program, a practical system of guidelines to help reduce care-giver and patient injuries during patient handling. Each chapter explains how to apply the program to specific clinical settings, such as medical and surgical, critical care, ortho-paedics, pediatrics, labor and delivery, reha-bilitation settings, the perioperative suite, and nursing homes.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	p. ix
Forewords	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Common Patient-Transfer Tasks (Across Multiple Settings)	p. 7
Bariatric Patient-Handling Tasks	p. 31
Medical-Surgical Nursing	p. 61
Critical Care	p. 79
Orthopaedics	p. 91
Pediatrics	p. 103
Labor and Delivery	p. 117
Patient-Handling Tasks in Rehabilitation	p. 131
Nursing Home	p. 147
Algorithms	p. 169
Pediatric Slings Guide	p. 207
Glossary	p. 213
Index	p. 223
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