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Faculty Perceptions of Implementing an Evidence-Based Safe Patient Handling Nursing Curriculum Module

Despite the well-documented evidence for preventing musculoskeletal injuries among nurses providing patient handling tasks using ergonomic principles, faculty in nursing schools continue to rely on the teaching of body mechanics which fails to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. In this article the authors report the qualitative data from a parent study designed to develop and test an evidence-based curriculum module in nursing schools. Focus groups were conducted with participating faculty to elicit their perceptions of facilitators and barriers for implementing a new, evidence-based, safe patient handling curriculum module at their nursing schools. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Faculty, who were overwhelmingly positive about the curriculum module, related numerous implementation facilitators and recommendations for overcoming barriers. Findings from this study can be used to facilitate implementation of the curriculum module at other nursing schools and thus promote the use of safe patient handling throughout healthcare.