INTRODUCTION Nursing personnel have high risk for incidence of low back pain (LBP) followed by development of chronic pain and disability. Multiple risk factors such as patient handling, night shift work and lack of supporting work culture have been identified. In subacute LBP, high-fear avoidance is prognostic for more pain, disability and not returning to work. Lack of leisure-time physical a...

Objective: To highlight the impact of responding to COVID-19 on physical well-being nursing and medical personnel. Method: This integrative literature review includes Spanish, English, Portuguese articles. From July 10 16, 2020, search was carried out in Cumulative Index Nursing Allied Health Literature, Latin American Caribbean Sciences Web Science, SciVerse Scopus, National Library Medicine d...

NC Med J March/April 2010, Volume 71, Number 2 Nationally, over 3 million certified nursing assistants and licensed nurses work in long-term care (LTC). Of these 3 million providers, about 2.5 million are certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and the remaining 500,000 licensed nurses are evenly divided between licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs).1 With the aging of our po...

nurses opinions and practice in mouth care for icu patients under mechanical ventilation     adib hajbagari m [1] *, ansari a [2]     received: 3 apr, 2012 accepted: 25 jun , 2012     abstract:   background and aim: despite evidences on association between ventilator associated pneumonia and inadequate mouth care of mechanically ventilated patients, no studies are available on the performance o...

ADVANCES Fall/Winter 2003, VOL. 19, NO. 3/4 The Impact of Recreational Music-Making for Long-Term Care Workers The featured article in this issue, Recreational MusicMaking: A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in Long-Term Care Workers—Insights and Potential Economic Impact, represents an outstanding research contribution. This paper p...