National Resources

National Resources

• New Yorkers for Patient & Family Empowerment

  
  “The Case for Caring Technology: Why New York Patients & Nursing Home Residents Should be Entitled to the Use of Safer, Technology-Based Methods for Lifting and Moving (‘Safe Patient Handling’)”

• Facility Guideline Institute

  
  “Patient Handling and Movement Assessments: A White Paper”
  April 2010

• Joint Commission Monograph

  
  “Improving Patient and Worker Safety: Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation”
  2012

• International Organization for Standardization

  
  Ergonomics: Manual Handling of People in the Healthcare Sector
  2012

• US Department of Veterans Affairs

  
  Safe Patient Handling and Movement Resource Page

• OSHA Ergonomic: Guidelines for Nursing Homes

  
  March 2009

• Safe Patient Handling and Movement Nursing School Curriculum Toolkit

  
  ANA partnered with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Tampa Veterans Administration Patient Safety Center of Inquiry to develop this toolkit.
  This toolkit contains the following materials required to incorporate evidence-based patient handling into a nursing school curriculum:
  1. Didactic content
  2. Clinical laboratory content
  The toolkit also contains additional optional background material.

• NIOSH Safe Patient Handling Training for Schools of Nursing

  
  Publication No. 2009-127. The material includes a booklet and the safe patient handling and movement web-based training.