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Nursing Education 2018
Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825
Page 55
April 23-25, 2018
Rome, Italy
27
th
Edition of World Congress on
Nursing Education &
Research
T
he surgery-room is one of the key medical care locations in
hospitals, and the tools and materials are prepared in the
operation preparatory room. The people of surgery team are
medical doctors, assistants and nurses who often complain about
musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) problems. The MSDs originate
from multiple factors. In this study, musculoskeletal disorder
has been approached by using ergonomic analysis to evaluate
risk factors. The objective is to estimate the risks of nurses and
to redesign the tool carriage in surgery rooms. The subjects are
the nurses at surgery rooms in a university hospital of south of
Taiwan. The ergonomics analysis of nurse work was processed
in the hospital. Not only professional observation has been done,
but also camcorder and camera recorded key activities. The
results of ergonomic job analysis and questionnaire show that
muscle disorders are very common symptoms of low back; the
results of checklist shows that the nurses and assistant people
are under high musculoskeletal disorder or injury risk. The
recommendations were: 1) to redesign a new carriage to reduce
the handling weight of surgery tools for lifting and moving, 2) to
redesign the layout of surgery rooms and preparation roomshould
to increase productivity and reduce lifting andmoving activities, 3)
to provide standing-chairs and to train nurses with valid postures
are recommended to decrease nurses’ musculoskeletal disorders.
Biography
Chihwei Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial System
and Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. He is an expert
in the fields of ergonomics testing and evaluation, individual research in in-
dustrial engineering, human research, musculoskeletal disorders of nurse
people, ergonomics, occupational biomechanics, psychology, etc. His publi-
cations include, Evaluation of the Indonesian National Standard for elemen-
tary school furniture based on children’s anthropometry, 2017; Prevalence of
urinary tract infections and associated factors among pregnant workers in
the electronics industry, 2009; Evaluating work ability and quality of life for
clinical nurses in Taiwan, risk factors of adult inpatient fall events, 2005 and
many more. He has won many academic and competition awards.
chwelu@cycu.edu.twErgonomic approach for musculoskeletal disorders of nurses
in a surgery room
Chihwei Lu
Department of Industrial System and Engineering Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
Chihwei Lu, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-003