Risk Management And Prevention Guidance To Assist Nursing Staff

Article Review for Risk Management And Prevention Guidance To Assist Nursing Staff
With respect to Management of occupational health and safety (OHS) issues in Hospitals
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1/9/2020

Boucaut, R., & Cusack, L. (2016). ‘Sometimes your safety goes a bit by the wayside’...
exploring occupational health and safety (OHS) with student nurses. Nurse education in
practice, 20, 93-98.
Nursing is considered a high-risk profession as it included OHS issues that are
Occupational health and safety-related issues. The authors of this study tried to conduct a pilot
study to understand the nursing students’ perspective about the OHS issues and extend to which
they possess knowledge about the same. The authors with this study tried to include enlighten
OHS issues in the minds of nursing students by including it in their undergraduate or other
courses. They have done this with the help of themes. Student grasps the knowledge in the best
possible manner and tried to identify measures for managing with OHS issues in the future.
Paediatric Nursing. Manual Handling. Paediatric Nursing , 18 (7), 1.
This research study talked about manual handing of children in hospitals by nurses and
because of that they sometimes encounter various injuries like back pain, knee injury, etc. these
injuries are considered among OHS issues that nurses may face during their tenure of work in
hospitals. The results of this study can be helpful for future researches in which the authors can
establish new concepts, principles, measures, etc about the careful handling of OHS issues in
hospitals or health care units.
ROBERT, G. (1979). Health and Safety in Hospitals. Med. Sci. Law, 19 (2), 89-103
This article talked about the nonsurgical accidents that got happened in many hospitals to
the staff of those hospitals, patients or visitors. The article aims at presenting the empirical
analysis of the accidents that took place in hospitals relating to the health and safety of the
individuals involved. It also discussed the results based on Work Act 1974, which directs the
behavior relating to health and safety measures in hospitals. The result of this study can be
utilized for nurses in providing them knowledge about the OHS issues that they can face during
their professional life.