Careergonomics
Careergonomics

Author: Rashid Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781449008161

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Careergonomics fuses the worlds of education and business with work-based learning and workforce development to help aspiring students and professionals develop the critical skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century global economy and workforce. Careergonomics will help you to develop a mindset of strategic thinking about personal development and employment success in the emerging 21st century global economy. It will educate you on how to play an active role in identifying and shaping your own work, leisure, abilities, interests, needs, and values as well as self-development in terms of career or lifelong achievement in the workplace. Careergonomics also integrates information literacy with current studies, surveys, research and development, abstracts, articles and computer testing to help career-seekers regardless of age identify endless personal career learning, profession potential, career growth, and personal and professional development opportunities. Finally, Careergonomics will help you learn how to develop a strategic mindset about personal development, career growth, and success achievement. Careergonomics will: Educate you how to play an active role in shaping your own work, leisure, abilities, interests, needs and values as well as self-development in terms of career. Assist you to develop a personal idea or concept of career construction by relating developmental tasks, vocational transitions and individual knowledge, skills and abilities to achieving aspiring careers and fulfilling lives Coach you how to relate attributes, experiences, interests, values and perception to employment opportunities and professional growth Help you understand, adapt, and connect to the employer's perception and expectation as well as understand the professional and technical skills needed to succeed in the changing workforce or marketplace Support schools, professionals and policy-makers preparing students for occupational transition, workforce readiness and career growth Improve job performance and leadership Increase productivity, motivation, and employability

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety

Author: Pascale Carayon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-09-08

Total Pages: 1012

ISBN-13: 1482269503

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A complete resource, this handbook presents current knowledge on concepts and methods of human factors and ergonomics, and their applications to help improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care. It provides specific information on how to analyze medical errors with the fundamental goal to reduce such errors and the harm t

Safe Patient Handling and Movement
Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Author: Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2005-12-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0826163645

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Did you know that an estimated 12% of nurses leave the profession annually because of back injuries and that over half of RNs complain of chronic back pain? This book presents best practices in safe patient handling and movement. Nurse and hospital administrators, clinicians, clinical managers, risk managers, and those involved in procurement and implementation of patient handling technologies in the health care environment will find this a practical resource for improving care and protecting staff from unnecessary injury. You will come away from reading this book with information that you can employ in a variety of work environments--hospitals, nursing homes, home care, and other health care organizations--whatever your practice setting may be. Caregiver safety approaches include: Evidence-based standards for safe patient movement and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries An overview of available equipment and technology Architectural designs for ergonomically safe patient care space Institutional policies, such as use of lift teams

Ergonomics in Health Care and Rehabilitation
Ergonomics in Health Care and Rehabilitation

Author: Valerie J. Berg Rice

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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This unique book teaches therapists how to use ergonomics to optimize human performance and improve patient health. It explains what recommendations should be made to industry to promote healthy work habits and decrease the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries and discusses proper body mechanics, work simplification techniques, and recommendations for ergonomic equipment.

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine
Emerging Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine

Author: Jay Kalra

Publisher: AHFE Conference

Published: 2023-12-04

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1958651923

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Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 4-6, December 2023

Bridging Research and Good Practices towards Patients Welfare
Bridging Research and Good Practices towards Patients Welfare

Author: Yuh-Chuan Shih

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-11-21

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1138027162

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Ergonomics is a human-centered discipline. This is particularly true for healthcare systems and patient safety where the human’s well-being will undergo critical impacts if solutions are not properly designed and practiced. Effective handling of these concerns involves knowledge from healthcare work (e.g., shift work, patient handling, and medical teamwork), to safety research (resilience, medical process control, intensive care, surgery/anesthesiology, and patient involvement), and to more general issues such as community participation in public affairs. To pursue the mission, the Healthcare System Ergonomics and Patient Safety (HEPS) commenced its first conference in Florence, Italy in 2005. Following the founding success, HEPS became an IEA-sponsored event and the series subsequently took place in Strasbourg, France in 2008, and in Oviedo, Spain in 2011. The three remarkable conferences have forged a world-class platform for researchers and practitioners from around the globe to exchange and disseminate the knowledge in HEPS. This volume contains the selected papers presented at the Fourth International conference on HEPS, held from June 23 to 26, 2014 in Taiwan. The Fourth HEPS, organized by the Ergonomics Society of Taiwan (EST) and endorsed by the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), aims to consolidate the knowledge bridged between ergonomics research and healthcare practices for the safety and welfare of patients. Researchers, professionals, and practitioners in ergonomics and healthcare around the world have shared their wisdom, experience, insights, and visions on past, current and future efforts in healthcare systems ergonomics and patient safety. The papers contributing to this book address the latest research, applications and practices in accordance with the theme of the conference, "Bridging Research and Good Practices towards Patients Welfare," and cover the following areas: "Aging and Healthcare System", "Healthcare, Mobil Application and Usability", "Safety, Hazards and MSDs", "Simulation, Modeling and Decision Making", "Environment and System Design", and "Human Factors and Product Design".

Production Ergonomics
Production Ergonomics

Author: Cecilia Berlin

Publisher: Ubiquity Press

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1911529137

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Production ergonomics – the science and practice of designing industrial workplaces to optimize human well-being and system performance – is a complex challenge for a designer. Humans are a valuable and flexible resource in any system of creation, and as long as they stay healthy, alert and motivated, they perform well and also become more competent over time, which increases their value as a resource. However, if a system designer is not mindful or aware of the many threats to health and system performance that may emerge, the end result may include inefficiency, productivity losses, low working morale, injuries and sick-leave. To help budding system designers and production engineers tackle these design challenges holistically, this book offers a multi-faceted orientation in the prerequisites for healthy and effective human work. We will cover physical, cognitive and organizational aspects of ergonomics, and provide both the individual human perspective and that of groups and populations, ending up with a look at global challenges that require workplaces to become more socially and economically sustainable. This book is written to give you a warm welcome to the subject, and to provide a solid foundation for improving industrial workplaces to attract and retain healthy and productive staff in the long run.

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety

Author: Pascale Carayon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 855

ISBN-13: 1439830347

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The first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergonomics research, concepts, theories, models, methods, and interventions and how they can be applied in health care. Other books focus on particular human

Medical Instrumentation
Medical Instrumentation

Author: Jack M. Winters

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1000654176

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Two of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of a medical device are its usability and accessibility. This is important not only for health care providers, but also for older patients and users with disabilities or activity limitations. Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations focuses on how lack of usabi

Ergonomics and Nudging for Health, Safety and Happiness
Ergonomics and Nudging for Health, Safety and Happiness

Author: Tommaso Bellandi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-16

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 3031283902

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This book presents the best, peer-reviewed contributions from the XII Congress of the Italian Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (SIE), held in Lucca, Italy, on May 2-4, 2022. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral sciences, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics in a variety of industrial sectors, such as health care, transportation, automotive and constructions. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting health, safety, and well-being of individuals anc communities. The proceedings includes papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers, and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains, and productive sectors.