ASU Nursing Survey Concerning Back Pain

[ASUstudent]

dear nursing community, my team and i are biomedical engineers are arizona state university. we are conducting a research study to see if there is a link between nursing and back pain. to answer this question we created a quick online survey which can be accessed at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=d55_2fzbyyegeqx2evuy8k4a_3d_3d

for us to receive the most accurate information please don't conduct the survey if you are not a nurse. below is further information about the survey. thanks again for all your responses.

- asu bioengineering students

[color=#333333]dear participant,

[color=#333333]we, as engineering students from the ira a. fulton school of

[color=#333333]engineering at asu, are asking for your help with our senior design

[color=#333333]project. our involvement in the medical field has brought to our

[color=#333333]attention that many medical personnel suffer from back pain due to

[color=#333333]their lifting of patients. our project goal as medical engineers is

[color=#333333]to design and build a device to assist with the lifting of patients.

[color=#333333]however, we must prove that this device is demanded by medical

[color=#333333]personnel in order to receive funding. if you could take a minute and

[color=#333333]complete this survey that would be greatly appreciated.

[ASUstudent]

If this could be stickied we would appreciate it. Thanks.

[ASUstudent]

does anyone have any comments/suggestions about our study? any feedback would be great. :)

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

stuck for 1 month. Karen

[ASUstudent]

Thank You. :nuke:

[*ac*]

Didn't look at your survey, but just wanted to comment that I learned in Nursing Research that internet surveys are not considered high quality data. It's basically a "convenience" type of data that is not all that credible in terms of valid research.

[ASUstudent]

your absolutely right ac, we are also conducting this survey in local hospitals for more accurate results.

[KneKno]

re: survey--I seldom move patients from one bed to another, usually it's out of bed to a bedside commode or chair, take a walk, then return to bed. In ICU, portable chest xrays are done frequently, requiring the (sedated) pts head and trunk to be lifted up into a sort of sitting position while the film is placed and removed from under the pt. At the most, 3 people can help with this, there's not enough room to get more in there. Hiking the pts up in bed is also done very frequently--they slide down in the bed, have feet hanging off the side, can't breath cause the bend in the bed is at their neck instead of their waist--it's repititious and twisting. We have a "floater mat" that we can use that sounds nice, but we have 1 per floor. Turn the pt right then left to get it under them, take a second to pull them up, then turn L and R again to get them off, and the pt is scrunched down in the bed where he started! Good Luck