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C Love

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Lifting patients: the challenge for nursing.

This article examines how nursing will need to respond to the guidelines included in the new Health and Safety Regulations on the minimum requirements for the handling of loads. Many lifts that nurses undertake are called into question and the author outlines where nurses may be at risk and suggests alternative methods to lifting. The article also looks at what can go wrong when decisions about lifting miss out key points related to lifting stance and sequence.

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Orthopaedic nursing: a study of its specialty status.

This study attempts to clarify the distinction between orthopaedic and general nursing in response to criticism that orthopaedic nursing did not merit specialty status. The questionnaire survey asked nurses to assess a range of 76 nursing activities in terms of professional function. The results showed 36 out of the 76 activities were identified as 'highly orthopaedic'. The author emphasises that the holistic nature of nursing also applies to orthopaedic nursing and that this requires both generic and specialist skills. The implication for nurse education is that the necessary skills may need to be taught to a higher level to match a specialty status.

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Do you roll or lift?

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Managing manual handling in clinical situations.

The extent to which nurse managers at site level are now responsible for the development and management of systems of work designed to reduce the risk to nurses from patient handling is not always clear. This paper, and a second due to appear next month, will draw attention to the practical implications of the regulations and how they affect the management roles of nurse managers at site level. Their interpretation does, however, depend on an understanding of its legal status and thus its historical and political links.

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Implementing manual handling codes of practice.

This paper discusses the aspects to be looked at when developing codes of practice for the safer manual handling of patients. The author examines in detail the various considerations that need to be taken into account when staff and managers are drawing up a code of practice for their particular workplace.

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