Body Mechanics Flashcards
What is body mechanics?
Correct alignment balance is very important
Regulation movement
You have a long soft short, flat an irregular bones.
Nervous system innervates? “Regulation of movement “
International and spontaneous muscles
Skeletal muscle = posture/movement /more international
Smooth muscle = digestive tract/ bladder/blood vessels/not attached to a muscle. This is most likely spontaneous.
Cardiac muscle = contract, spontaneously
Range of motion joints?
Flexion = raising your arm up
Extension = extending your arm
Hypertension = put in your arm as straight as possible passed 180°
Other ranges of motion?
Abduction = keeps legs apart
Adduction = add legs together legs are touching
Rotation = turn your head
Circumduction = making circle shape of joint
Who is more injured hospital workers or nursing facilities?
Nursing home bc they have less help and less equipment.
Work related muscular skeletal disorders?
Leading and most costly, occupational health problems, cumulative effect, soft tissue damage. Examples are muscles, tendons, ligaments joints, blood vessels, nerves, and spinal disc.
Prevention of injury?
ANA position statement, occupational safety, and health administration, safe, handling patient programs.
training nurses to use proper mechanics alone avoid injuries, true or false?
Pause
While lifting devices minimizing, the risk, the risk of MSD’s cannot be eliminated all together?
True that is a fact
Studies have shown the patient’s feel more comfortable insecure when a machine transfer device is used true or false?
True that is a fact
It can actually take much longer to round up a team of colleagues to manually lift a patient then to find and use lifting equipment, true or false?
True manual lifting machine will be much quicker
What are injury risk factors?
Task patients and nurses, we can able to help with transfer, vision, or hearing loss, overweight, poor communication, I Unpredictable, uncooperative, experiencing pain.
Foundation of body, mechanics?
Strongest shape in nature is what a triangle.
You are going to face the direction of movement body alignment center the gravity, balance in base you off of your support
**REMINDER
Keep your center of gravity over a wide base of support