Elderly Man Suffers Serious Injuries Due to Negligent Nursing Care

I am a professor of nursing in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical setting. I teach proper body mechanics to my nursing students to prevent patient and self injury. The patient and nurse can be injured if the patient is lifted by the arms. The patient could be dropped or the arm(s) may be dislocated. This is also not proper body mechanics for the nurse, as lifting requires use of the legs when lifting up the patient to avoid back injury by the nurse. If the patient is frail, obese, or has poor bone integrity, a fracture may occur if lifted by the arms. I am familiar with the teaching related to lifting and proper body mechanics provided to nursing students. This is the same technique followed by nursing assistants.