[RGN1]

You were right not to lift the patient in a way that could have caused injury to both yourself and him.

It was very wrong of the Sister ,who should know better, to then complain.

You have to address these issues early on with her, especially as she is your mentor.

As has been said already, get your M&H department on-board & also physio - who I'm sure would be happy to explain to her the dangers of what she is doing.

[ZippyGBR]

Originally Posted by Nurseinprocess

Well if you don't help lift the patient into the chair, how is he going to get there? I don't understand why you think it's not your job to do that? It would have been nice if you helped the nurse who moved the patient so you could have shared his weight between you and spared both of you back strain.

by transferring using a safe and appropriate manual handling techniques with the use of handling aids if required ...

not by grabbing him under the armpits and throwing him about.

manual handling practice in the Uk is very well developed and there are biomechanically appropriate and safe for both nurse and patient ways of achieving a lot of handling tasks

under the Manual Handling Ops regulations and other health and safety legislation manual handling tasks have be either eliminated or the safest techniques adopted ...

the patient may have been able to self transfer with the use of a frame and appropraite coaching and safe handling assistance, it may have been more approrpaite to use a handling belt or evan a standing hoist to assit him to stand ...

the costs to the NHS not only in fines but in compensation and medical retirement leading to early pay ment of a full pension are potnetially huge ...

[cariad]

some states in america are trying to institute what the UK has got, but the thinking of nurses over here is about 30 years behind the uk, its strange how such a civilised country is so underdeveloped in their health care industry. theres lots in the uk that america still has not caught up with.

[Silverdragon102]

Surely it would be in employers benefit to provide appropriate equipment and encourage nurses to use lifting aids, less sick time

[cariad]

no anna, thats not how it works, each 2 week pay period that I work I earn 6 hours of vacation/sick time, so if you work the 3 nights/days you start to earn time, you can get workers compensation if you hurt your back in work but its not very much money and you make the money up for a while with the time that you have earned. then it goes back to paying for medical things that your insurance doesnt cover. I am afraid that american nurses just dont have the same support for lifting and injuries that uk nurses do.