Question

chapter 10 experimental exersies exersize 2 Many of the maintenance staff (who are mostly male) at Glendale Hospital are experiencing back injuries that have caused a shortage of technicians on any given shift. Glendale Hospital recently began staff cutbacks, scheduling no male aids trained to assist with patient transfers. What correlations are there between the back injuries and the staff cutbacks? what steps can Glendale Hospital take to resolve both issues?

Answer 1

The back injuries are due to excess work,shortage of staff,overtime,poor techniques during transferring,loss of energy,over weight of morbid obese patients. The staff cut backs may be mainly to reduce financial crisis.The correlation in this situation is that the hospital is cutting staff to avoid any consequences with a back injury staff handling patients in transfers resulting in falls.

Some of the steps which can be taken to resolve this issues are

• Staff training in body techniques
• Use of equipments to transfer patient
• Adequate support staff to transfer patients
• Health screening of the staff
• Maintaining staffs who are healthy and young aged