1.Effectiveness of applying UK manual moving & handling skills in the training of preventing occupational lower back pain among nursing professionals
Jingjing WANG ; Ling MA ; Wei ZHAO ; Xiaoqing ZHANG ; Yaosong ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2014;30(12):6-9
Objective To evaluate the application effect of UK manual moving & handling skills in the training of preventing occupational lower back pain among nursing professionals,and explore effective ways of training on preventing occupational lower back pain to nursing professionals.Methods 86 nursing students,94 nurses with 12 months' work experience,and 88 nurses with work experience over 5 years were randomized selected,and they each were divided into the experimental group and the control group.For 86 nursing students,43 students in each group; For 94 nurses with 12 months' work experience,47 nurses in each group; For 88 nurses with work experience over 5 years,44 nurses in each group.A routine taught training was given to both groups,while the experimental group received an extra 25 academic hours' structured OLBP prevention training.Comprehensive proposition was used to assess theoretic learning outcome of all participants,and practical skills of all participants were tested through institutional cases.Ressults There was significant statistical difference between scores of participants from two groups,and the scores of the experimental group in nurses with 12 months' work experience were different from the experimental groups of nursing students and nurses with work experience over 5 years.Conclusions Structured OLBP prevention training should lead occupational health prevention and health promotion concepts,apply numerous teaching approaches,emphasize the content of maintaining physical and psychiatric health and occupational protection management,set new-enrolled nurses as the main focused group of training.
2.Effectiveness of implementing operative-training health promotion mode among the independent elderly in elderly care institutes
Jingjing WANG ; Xia SUN ; Ling MA ; Qinghua ZHU ; Yaosong ZHAO ; Guoli ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2014;30(14):9-13
Objective To explore the establishment of health promotion mode to the independent elderly group at elderly care institutes.Methods To establish operational-training community health promotion mode based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Pender's health promotion theory,the mode was implemented among 86 healthy elderly people,and the effectiveness of mode implementation was evaluated.Results Scores of quality of life and health promotion lifestyle after applying health promotion mode showed statistical differences compared to scores before the implementation,and there was improvement of scores of interpersonal relationship,health responsibility and self-realization after applying health promotion mode.Conclusions Operational-training health promotion mode could help in enhancing health status as well as health promotion behavior of the independent elderly group in elderly care institutes,and promote the utility to community health resources,it is worth to promoting the mode in community health promotion among the elderly people in health care institutes.