Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds - Archived Presentations

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Implementing Safe Patient Lifting Legislation in Washington Hospitals
by Barbara Silverstein, RN, PhD, MPH, MSN, CPE
Presented Thursday, May 10, 2007

Disclosure: This course has been planned and implemented in accordance with ACOEM. This speaker has no significant financial interest or other relationship with any commercial products mentioned in this presentation.

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This presentation has been approved by the ACOEM for CME credit until December 31, 2009. 
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Learning Objectives:

  • Have knowledge of the evidence for zero-lift of patients in hospitals and nursing homes
  • Understand the requirements of the law and incentives for compliance
  • Identify barriers to implementation
  • Identify challenges to expanding requirements to those institutions who may need it even more

Barbara Silverstein, RN, PhD, MPH, MSN, CPE
Research Director
Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP)
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
Olympia, WA

Barbara Silverstein is Research Director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industry’s SHARP program. She received her MS degree in nursing from the University of California San Francisco, her MPH in Epidemiology and Environmental and Industrial Health from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiologic Science from the University of Michigan. She has worked on ergonomics-related issues at OSHA, the University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and the California Department of Health Services. Her major areas of research have been identification and control of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, comparison of surveillance methods and intervention studies to control these disorders. She has conducted field research in a number of industries, including electronics, meat, poultry and fish processing, newspaper publishing, appliance manufacturing, medical equipment manufacturing, office work environment, pulp and paper mills, aluminum mills, automotive manufacturing.

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the Joint Sponsorship of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and NAOEM.  The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.