Patient safety and comfort during transfers in relation to nurses’ work technique

Kjellberg, Katarina; Lagerström, Monica; Hagberg, Mats

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03089.x

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“…Both transfers are frequently performed and have also been identified as causing a high spinal load 35) and risk of low back injuries when performed manually 4,36) . A relation between the transfer skill of nurses and the perception of safety and comfort has been identified 37) . A follow-up training session should be planned in advance, to provide an opportunity to discuss problems that are identified and train specific patient transfers.…”

Section: Musculoskeletal Symptoms/disorders and Patient Transfermentioning

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Nurses' Expectations, Experiences and Attitudes towards the Intervention of a ‘No Lifting Policy’

Engkvist

2007

Journal of Occupational Health

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Section: Musculoskeletal Symptoms/disorders and Patient Transfermentioning

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Nurses' Expectations, Experiences and Attitudes towards the Intervention of a ‘No Lifting Policy’

Engkvist

2007

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…Kjellberg, Lagerström and Hagberg showed a correlation between safe work technique for the nursing personnel and the patients' perceptions of safe and comfortable transfers [42]. Their findings point out that the transfer skills of health care personnel are also a matter of the quality of care.…”

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Factors That Influence the Use of Safe Patient Transfer Technique in Home Care Service

Skoglind-Öhman

Kjellberg

2011

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…In addition, the wheelchair must be placed and set up appropriately, with the brakes on, before starting to transfer the patient. Applying these skills enables the nurse to conserve energy, avoid fatigue and injuries, and ensure the patient's safety and comfort [1]- [3], [7]. To evaluate comprehensively the trainees' skills during patient transfer, a checklist was designed, shown in Table 1, based on the results of discussions with nursing teachers.…”

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“…To conserve energy, avoid injuries, and ensure the patient's comfort and safety [1], [2], nurses require many skills in their daily work, including the use of proper body mechanics [3]. However, with the shortage of nursing teachers and with limited class time, students are often unable to receive sufficient training with skill evaluation before starting their hospital careers.…”

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Automatic Evaluation of Trainee Nurses' Patient Transfer Skills Using Multiple Kinect Sensors

Huang

Nagata

Kanai‐Pak

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IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYTo help student nurses learn to transfer patients from a bed to a wheelchair, this paper proposes a system for automatic skill evaluation in nurses' training for this task. Multiple Kinect sensors were employed, in conjunction with colored markers attached to the trainee's and patient's clothing and to the wheelchair, in order to measure both participants' postures as they interacted closely during the transfer and to assess the correctness of the trainee's movements and use of equipment. The measurement method involved identifying body joints, and features of the wheelchair, via the colors of the attached markers and calculating their 3D positions by combining color and depth data from two sensors. We first developed an automatic segmentation method to convert a continuous recording of the patient transfer process into discrete steps, by extracting from the raw sensor data the defining features of the movements of both participants during each stage of the transfer. Next, a checklist of 20 evaluation items was defined in order to evaluate the trainee nurses' skills in performing the patient transfer. The items were divided into two types, and two corresponding methods were proposed for classifying trainee performance as correct or incorrect. One method was based on whether the participants' relevant body parts were positioned in a predefined spatial range that was considered 'correct' in terms of safety and efficacy (e.g., feet placed appropriately for balance). The second method was based on quantitative indexes and thresholds for parameters describing the participants' postures and movements, as determined by a Bayesian minimum-error method. A prototype system was constructed and experiments were performed to assess the proposed approach. The evaluation of nurses' patient transfer skills was performed successfully and automatically. The automatic evaluation results were compared with evaluation by human teachers and achieved an accuracy exceeding 80%.

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Patient safety and comfort during transfers in relation to nurses’ work technique

Abstract: The results support the existence of a relationship between nurses' skills in patient transfers and quality of patient care.

Cited by 47 publications

References 31 publications

Nurses' Expectations, Experiences and Attitudes towards the Intervention of a ‘No Lifting Policy’

Nurses' Expectations, Experiences and Attitudes towards the Intervention of a ‘No Lifting Policy’

Factors That Influence the Use of Safe Patient Transfer Technique in Home Care Service

Automatic Evaluation of Trainee Nurses' Patient Transfer Skills Using Multiple Kinect Sensors

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