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Clinical Integration in Aged Care Assignment

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Clinical Integration in Aged Care Assignment

   Added on 2020-03-15

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Running head: CLINICAL INTEGRATION SPECIALITY PRACTICEClinical integration in aged careName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1CLINICAL INTEGRATION SPECIALITY PRACTICEModule 1According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013), the proportion of populationaged above 65 years is estimated to increase to 5.8 million by the year 2031 (Abs.gov.au, 2017).Aged care specialties in hospitals aim to assess the needs of old and frail people. The registerednurses (RN) are involved in improving the wellbeing and health of frail old patients bydelivering high quality services. RNs play a vital role in residential aged care services bymonitoring and delivering evidence-based practices for quality improvement of their clients.Registered nurses and their aged clients are particularly susceptible to manual handling injuries.Nurses are involved in patient handling tasks that increase their susceptibility to musculoskeletaldisorders such as back pain. Manual handling operations involve supporting or moving patientsby providing bodily effort. Handling patients includes the use of a force to push, lift, pull, carry,lower, move or support the concerned client (Trinkoff et al., 2008). Musculoskeletal injuriesrelated to manual handling tasks that involve high risks such as adjusting beds, moving patienttrolleys or lifting people are a major safety concern. The risks of injuries related to handling of patients get increased when the registerednurses are made to perform duties in which they have not received adequate training. Data fromstudies suggest that musculoskeletal disorders arising due to inappropriate handling of patientslead to disc degeneration. Tasks that require sudden nonneutral posture movements predisposeRNs to risks of back injuries. Transfer of patients often requires rotation, flexion and shear forcesthat lead to back pain and fracture among the frail old patients. Maintaining body posture for aprolonged period of time during manual handling, lead to the occurrence of shoulder and backpain among both the clients and their caregivers (Oakman, Macdonald & Wells, 2014). Failure to
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2CLINICAL INTEGRATION SPECIALITY PRACTICElift patients safely is responsible for fall related injuries and death. Pushing or pulling patienttrolleys are associated with shoulder injuries. On the other hand, nurses suffer from arm and neckinjuries when they are involved in stooping or lifting patients. Elderly patients often face safetythreat during toileting. It is often done without any assistance and involves a number ofmanoeuvres and lifts (Kay, Evans & Glass, 2015). Therefore, it can be said that the safety and health status of a patients and registerednurses can be protected only by providing proper manual handling training to the staff and bysupplying lifting equipments such as slings, handling belts, slide sheets, transfer boards andhoists to ensure safety of the staff and the patients.
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