Musculoskeletal injuries related to resident handling are the number one cause of injury in long term care. Back strains alone account for 30% of all work-related injuries reported; other strains account for 44%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Studies have clearly demonstrated that injury rates among care workers can be significantly reduced by increasing the use of mechanical lifts and restricting manual resident handling by care workers2,3,4<\/sup>. Moreover, studies looking at the manual lifting of residents have found that the effort required to do so routinely exceeds care workers biomechanical capacities2,5,6<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to this, transitioning from a manual to lift-based transfer system is safer and more comfortable for residents and is associated with fewer violent or aggressive resident behaviour incidents1,3<\/sup>. Safe Resident Handling policies can reduce the risk the musculoskeletal injuries by establishing a \u2018no-lift\u2019 approach as the standard operating procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1\u00a0<\/sup>SafeCare BC (2015). SafeCare BC Members \u2013 Injury Trends Profile by Organization Size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2<\/sup>\u00a0Collins, J., Wolf, L., Bell, J., Evanoff, B. (2004). An evaluation of a \u201cbest practices\u201d musculoskeletal injury prevention program in nursing homes. Injury Prevention, 10, 206-211.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3<\/sup>\u00a0Pompeii, L., Lipscomb, H., Schoenfisch, A., Dement, J. (2009). Musculoskeletal injuries resulting from patient handling tasks among hospital workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 52(7), 571-578.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4\u00a0<\/sup>Provincial Residential Care Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Team. Provincial Safe Resident Handling Standards for Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention in British Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5<\/sup>\u00a0 Nelson, A., Lloyd, J., Menzel, N., Gross, C. (2003). Preventing nursing back injuries: Redesigning patient handling tasks. American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal, 51(3), 126-134.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6<\/sup> De Castro, A. (2004). Handle with care: The American Nurses Association\u2019s campaign to address work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 9(3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Musculoskeletal injuries related to resident handling are the number one cause of injury in long term care. Back strains alone account for 30% of all work-related injuries reported; other strains account for 44%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9100,"template":"","tags":[],"audience":[118],"topic":[74],"class_list":["post-277","template","type-template","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","audience-audience","topic-safe-handling"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/template\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/template"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/template"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Faudience&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}References:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n