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Educare

Educare

MAYO 2004 N° 5 Volumen 2

Risk prevention in caretakers and care

Section: LEARNING TO TEACH

Authors

Ana Cairols Oviedo, María Vañó Giner

Position

Alumnas de Tercero de Enfermería de la EUE “La Fe”, Valencia.

Contact address

Avda. Daniel Gil, 44. Ontinyent.

Abstract

One of the healthcare professional groups that run a higher risk to suffer from alterations that are related to a basic human need, according to V.Henderson, “moving and maintaining adequate postures”, is nurses; back pain being the pathology that causes more work absences, followed by a wide array of diseases which include intervertebral hernias, muscle alterations due to excess load, fractures, sprains, etc.
Postural changes, mobilizations and the relocation of people or objects are the main risk factors of nurses’ muscle and bone pathologies, if these tasks are not done correctly.  Preventive measures are instrumental in avoiding these problems.

Keywords:

preventive cares; postural change; mobilizationrelocation

Versión en Español

Título:

Prevención de riesgos en cuidadores y cuidados