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SAFE PATIENT HANDLING EDUCATION: ANALYSIS FROM EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

OBJECTIVES: According to current research, patient handling is not universally taught in academic nursing programs in Europe. Miscellaneous patient handling education may expose students and novice health care workers to occupational hazards, especially if the evidence-based contents of safe patient...

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Autores principales: Karppi, Marion, Jerez-Roig, Javier, Naamanka, Kati, Mimoso, Teresa, Sormunen, Erja, Dudoniene, Vilma, Mämmelä, Eija, Lucena, Aldina, Tamminen-Peter, Leena
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Publicado: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10464788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35816049
http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.01954
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author Karppi, Marion
Jerez-Roig, Javier
Naamanka, Kati
Mimoso, Teresa
Sormunen, Erja
Dudoniene, Vilma
Mämmelä, Eija
Lucena, Aldina
Tamminen-Peter, Leena
author_facet Karppi, Marion
Jerez-Roig, Javier
Naamanka, Kati
Mimoso, Teresa
Sormunen, Erja
Dudoniene, Vilma
Mämmelä, Eija
Lucena, Aldina
Tamminen-Peter, Leena
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description OBJECTIVES: According to current research, patient handling is not universally taught in academic nursing programs in Europe. Miscellaneous patient handling education may expose students and novice health care workers to occupational hazards, especially if the evidence-based contents of safe patient handling are not recognized. Health care workers deal with high physical workloads daily, which points out the importance of evidence-based curricula contents from the early phases of education. The aim of this study was to describe the patient handling education and to analyse the differences in curricula among higher education institutions (HEIs) in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study used a cross-sectional design and was conducted in HEIs educating health care professionals in Europe. The data was collected through a Webropol questionnaire consisting of structured and open-ended questions. RESULTS: Only 68.4% of the respondents stated that they have a framework that guides the patient handling education. Additionally, some answers referred to guidelines that are not adequate to be referred to as evidence-based guidelines on patient handling. There is variation in emphasizing workplace safety and risk assessment issues in the curricula, and variation in teaching of assistive aids. CONCLUSIONS: Currently the patient handling education in the studied HEIs does not meet the requirements of evidence-based practice. The establishment of a European-wide framework, including both theoretical and practical training for safe patient handling is needed. The inclusion of risk assessment and workplace safety issues is essential to improve the risk management knowledge and skills and further avoid work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2022;35(5):615 – 23
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spelling pubmed-104647882023-08-29 SAFE PATIENT HANDLING EDUCATION: ANALYSIS FROM EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS Karppi, Marion Jerez-Roig, Javier Naamanka, Kati Mimoso, Teresa Sormunen, Erja Dudoniene, Vilma Mämmelä, Eija Lucena, Aldina Tamminen-Peter, Leena Int J Occup Med Environ Health Original Paper OBJECTIVES: According to current research, patient handling is not universally taught in academic nursing programs in Europe. Miscellaneous patient handling education may expose students and novice health care workers to occupational hazards, especially if the evidence-based contents of safe patient handling are not recognized. Health care workers deal with high physical workloads daily, which points out the importance of evidence-based curricula contents from the early phases of education. The aim of this study was to describe the patient handling education and to analyse the differences in curricula among higher education institutions (HEIs) in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study used a cross-sectional design and was conducted in HEIs educating health care professionals in Europe. The data was collected through a Webropol questionnaire consisting of structured and open-ended questions. RESULTS: Only 68.4% of the respondents stated that they have a framework that guides the patient handling education. Additionally, some answers referred to guidelines that are not adequate to be referred to as evidence-based guidelines on patient handling. There is variation in emphasizing workplace safety and risk assessment issues in the curricula, and variation in teaching of assistive aids. CONCLUSIONS: Currently the patient handling education in the studied HEIs does not meet the requirements of evidence-based practice. The establishment of a European-wide framework, including both theoretical and practical training for safe patient handling is needed. The inclusion of risk assessment and workplace safety issues is essential to improve the risk management knowledge and skills and further avoid work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2022;35(5):615 – 23 Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2022 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10464788/ /pubmed/35816049 http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.01954 Text en © 2006-2022 Journal hosting platform by Bentus https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/pl/This work is available in Open Access model and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Poland License – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/pl/deed.en (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/pl/) .
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Karppi, Marion
Jerez-Roig, Javier
Naamanka, Kati
Mimoso, Teresa
Sormunen, Erja
Dudoniene, Vilma
Mämmelä, Eija
Lucena, Aldina
Tamminen-Peter, Leena
SAFE PATIENT HANDLING EDUCATION: ANALYSIS FROM EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
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title_sort safe patient handling education: analysis from european higher education institutions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10464788/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.01954
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