A patient complains to his nurse that he is in great pain and that his current medication must not be working. He asks the nurse to prescribe him a new painkiller. Why should the nurse refuse ? A Nurses requires a second opinion before they are allowed to prescribe medicine. B. The patient may have an allergic reaction to the new medication and go into shock C. Nurses do not have education in these types of medicines .D. It is outside the nurse's scope of practice to prescribe medication

It starts with commitment. the health and safety policy is the commitment by the employer to provide and maintain a safe workplace. the commitment of the workforce is also a necessary component.when the workplace parties sit down to develop an ergonomic approach to patient handling, they will develop terms of reference that set forth how the health and safety committee will function in approaching this problem and reach its goal of reduced injuries.in general, a safe patient handling program will involve the following steps: management approval and commitment to develop and implement a patient handling program.perform a needs analysis.create and standardize patient assessment criteria.develop decision trees to standardize actions.determine which controls are needed to implement specific tasks or patient needs.institute a "no-lift" policy, where possible.