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Ergonomics/Handle With Care

The ANA Handle with Care^® campaign seeks to mount a profession-wide effort to prevent back and other musculoskeletal injuries through greater education and training, and increased use of assistive equipment and patient-handling devices. The campaign also seeks to reshape nursing education, and federal and state ergonomics policy by highlighting the ways technology-oriented safe-patient handling benefits patients and the nursing workforce.

Below you will find news items and campaign materials that you can view online or download.

Resources

Documents

• Nurses Report Having a Safe Patient Handling Program According to Poll
  
• ANA Supports Safe Patient Handling Measures in Congress To Improve Safety of Nurses and Patients (6/4/09) [PDF]
  
• ANA Brochure: Preventing Back Injuries: Safe Patient Handling and Movement [pdf]
  To help prevent nurse back injuries from moving patients, ANA created this brochure on safe patient handling, including best practices for lifting patients, how to choose lifting devices, and the myths of ergonomics.
• ANA Handle With Care® Brochure PDF
  
• Position Statement Background Info (ANA Members Only): Revised Elimination of Manual Patient Handling to Prevent Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders 3/14/08 [PDF]
  ANA's Official Position on This Issue: In order to establish a safe environment of care for nurses and patients, the American Nurses Association (ANA) supports actions and policies that result in the elimination of manual patient handling.
• ANA Receives Award for Safe Patient Handling Education (7/25/08) [pdf]
  
• ANA Handle With Care® Backgrounder
  Contains State Legislative Information
• Safe Patient Handling and Movement Nursing School Curriculum Toolkit [pdf]
  ANA partnered with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Tampa Veterans Administration Patient Safety Center of Inquiry to develop this toolkit.
  This toolkit contains the following materials required to incorporate evidence-based patient handling into a nursing school curriculum:
  1. Didactic content
  2. Clinical laboratory content
  The toolkit also contains additional optional background material.

Links

• ANA Safe Patient Handling Web site
• Latex Allergy Information
• OSHA Ergonomic Guidelines for Nursing Homes
• Back Injuries Information

Related Events

• Mar 30 - Apr 1, 2010
  10th Annual Safe Patient Handling & Movement Conference
  Lake Buena Vista, FL