ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS

Ergonomic Analysis of patient handling tasks of nurses

Ergonomic Analysis of patient handling tasks of nurses

Introduction

Ergonomics is a science of appointing someone a particular job, who is fit for the job. The ergonomics model is being followed to assess all the nursing tasks that are being carried in order to handle the patients with care and with manual handling devices.

As a result of mismatch in the physical requirements of the job, it may lead to work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Nurses are being trained to take proper care of the patient in order to prevent any risks, injuries or any adverse effects of patient handling (Hughes, 2008).

Background

Coughing is a reflexive action or physiological response by the body when the body needs to clear the pathways of air from the infections, mucus, irritants or foreign bodies. If the cough delays for a large number of days and shifts to weeks or even months then it indicates the possibility of some severe disease in the body. It may lead to serious medical and health problems for the patient including muscle pain, syncope, sleeping disorders, stress incontinence, fractured ribs and vomiting. One of the chronic diseases identified by the healthcare professionals and clinical practitioners is the inflammation in liver which is the largest gland of the human body. The symptoms identified for the diseases of liver such as inflammation of cirrhosis and granulomatous are usually the sense of pain, fever, tension on the right body side that leads to inability of the patient to lie on the left body side, difficulty in breathing, hiccups, vomiting and a dry and persistent cough (Hughes, 2008).

Literature Review

Patient safety and support are the most important elements of the nursing profession. The nurses spend the longest time span with the patient, and; therefore, they can greatly contribute to the process of improving the patient safety. Many of these patients are suffering from diseases in which they have to face limited or complete immobilization or they are too old to support their mobility process. Falls in the clinical settings are not an uncommon problem, and they are one of the largest reasons of the increasing mortality and morbidity in patients. The safety of these patients is the key responsibility of the nurses (Carayon, 2011).

A patient is completely dependent on the care givers in the clinical settings. Tenants in anticipatory thought are individuals that depend on the care providers, and the nursing care providers are liable for their well-being. This must be re?ected in efficacious wellbeing management, danger evaluation and single foresight masterminding arrangements. Excellent checks of health and wellbeing don't happen without impulse. Secure systems of work must be figured and executed, and the nursing staff must be adequately trained. In diverse proclamations, health and wellbeing must be directed to the degree that whatever reasonable part of the business (Nelson, 2005, pp. 59-220).

The communication plays a key role in developing the patient nurse relationship and promoting patient compliance to the therapy. The lack of communication generates problems like patient confusion and lack ...