Preventing Injuries Using an Ergonomic Approach
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in AORN Journal
- Vol. 72 (6) , 1031-1036
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-2092(06)61908-x
Abstract
The risk of back injury is a continuing problem for nurses. Patient‐handling tasks (eg, transferring patients on and off stretchers, repositioning patients on OR beds) are a major precipitating fact...Keywords
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