A nurse professor is educating nursing students on The American Nurses Association's recommendation to use assistive devices for safe patient handling. The nurse professor judges the teaching to be effective when one of the students state:
a. "Research indicated that patients were being injured by falls during transfers.".
b. "Research indicated that back injuries in staff nurses were occurring even with good body mechanics.".
c. "Research showed an increased number of lawsuits resulted from patient falls.".
d. "Research uncovered reports from state boards of nursing showed increased back injuries.".
B
In many situations, proper body mechanics are not adequate to protect the nurse. The nurse can-not adjust body mechanics in a way that fully protects the back. Teaching nurses to use proper body mechanics to lift and turn patients has not resulted in fewer injuries. The current recom-mendations by the ANA include the use of assistive patient-handling devices for lifting, transfer-ring, and turning patients. The state board of nursing would not necessarily be the agency track-ing data regarding back injuries. This would more than likely be the local or state hospital asso-ciation tracking this data. Even if there are increased lawsuits related to back injuries, there are also a great number of injuries that do not end up in litigation, so the data would be inaccurate to make the assumption.
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