When is it safe to manually lift a patient?

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 53-58

  Waters, Thomas R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; UNITED STATES; WORK CAPACITY;

BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; GUIDELINES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIFTING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 34547562259     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000282296.18688.b1     Document Type: Article

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