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More About Safe Patient Handling

ANA Past Related Actions

• 2003 ANA’s Handle with Care® campaign
• 2003 Elimination of Manual Patient Handling to Prevent Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
• 2001 ANA’s Bill of Rights for Registered Nurses
• 2001 ANA Health & Safety Survey
• 1993 Health and Safety in the Workplace
• 1992 The Profession’s Responsibility for the Occupational Health, Safety, and Wellness for Nurses

More From ANA

Documents

• 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.
• 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.
• ANA Handle With Care® Backgrounder
  Contains State Legislative Information

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• American Nurse Today CE Catalog
• ANA Online CE Catalog