Australian Home Care Workers’ Learning of Safe Manual Handling: Environmental Considerations

Palesy, D

Australian Home Care Workers’ Learning of Safe Manual Handling: Environmental Considerations

Palesy, D

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Home Health Care Management and Practice, 2016, 28 (4), pp. 216 - 223
Issue Date:: 2016-11-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Palesy, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4790-5398	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-11-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Home Health Care Management and Practice, 2016, 28 (4), pp. 216 - 223	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1084-8223	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/49229
dc.description.abstract	© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. How home care workers adapt what they learn in manual handling classroom training sessions to their workplaces (i.e., their clients’ homes) is central to their own safety, as their musculoskeletal injuries continue to occur at unacceptably high rates. For this inquiry, new workers were directly observed in their workplaces following classroom training. Findings from these observations propose three environmental considerations for supporting new workers to learn safe manual handling techniques: (1) The physical setting for manual handling is important, (2) clients and their significant others may offer a valuable form of learning support, and (c) when initially learning the requirements for their roles, new workers should be encouraged to focus only on the manual handling tasks at hand.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Home Health Care Management and Practice	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1084822316636617	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Nursing	en_US
dc.title	Australian Home Care Workers’ Learning of Safe Manual Handling: Environmental Considerations	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	28	en_US
utslib.for	1110 Nursing	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Nursing
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CHSP - Health Services and Practice
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	28	en_US

Abstract:

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. How home care workers adapt what they learn in manual handling classroom training sessions to their workplaces (i.e., their clients’ homes) is central to their own safety, as their musculoskeletal injuries continue to occur at unacceptably high rates. For this inquiry, new workers were directly observed in their workplaces following classroom training. Findings from these observations propose three environmental considerations for supporting new workers to learn safe manual handling techniques: (1) The physical setting for manual handling is important, (2) clients and their significant others may offer a valuable form of learning support, and (c) when initially learning the requirements for their roles, new workers should be encouraged to focus only on the manual handling tasks at hand.

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