European innovative programme for VET of nurses – “Moving and Handling” Erasmus Project

Project Title

European innovative programme for VET of nurses – “Moving and Handling”

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Project Goal: The project responded to the current situation in nursing staff training, specifically the situation in the field of Moving & Handling. Although there are many VET programs in this area, their impact on the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries / disorders in nursing staff is relatively low. There is a gap in the educational and training approaches, which would bring a shift in the training and change the moving and handling stereotypes brought by the old training methodologies.

The aim of the project was therefore to transfer the innovative M&H training program developed by Birmingham City University from Great Britain to 4 European countries (to the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania).

Partnership: The main coordinator of the project was LINET, the leading European manufacturer of hospital and nursing beds, which is also very active in the VET of nurses worldwide. Other partners were Birmingham City University as a university that developed an innovative M&H programme, two nursing associations (Czech Association of Nurses, Polskie Towarzystwo Pielegniarskie), 1 nurse education centre (Osrodek Ksztalcenia Podyplomowego Pielegniarek i Poloznych) and 2 hospitals (Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinics, SIHTASUTUS TARTU ULIKOOLI KLIINIKUM).

Project activities: The project analysed the current state of education in the above mentioned areas and transferred an innovative VET program to 4 countries. Seminars for trainers were carried out and the innovative M&H educational program was then pilot tested. Afterwards, dissemination events took place mainly through the implementation of local workshops and small scale meetings. Within the project, several transnational project meetings were held. At the end of the project the impacts of the program on the target group were evaluated. In general, the target group stated that the use of these new manipulation techniques with patients greatly facilitates their current work, and the transfer and enforcement of these techniques in the educational processes are seen as entirely breakthrough. The nurses evaluated the training course as very beneficial and the target group agreed that the implementation of the project will increase the effectiveness of the education, the education process will be significantly upgraded and the implementation of these techniques among the medical personnel will reduce the number of injuries of the musculoskeletal system at the nursing staff.

Outputs of the project: As a result of the implementation of the project a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the above-mentioned issues was carried out in individual countries. There was also carried out a research of the impact of the educational program, which served as input for the final creation of 4 local versions of the training course.

The project ran in line with the scheduled timetable and was successfully completed in September 2017.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 168505,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

LINET spol. s r.o. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
• Osrodek Ksztalcenia Podyplomowego Pielegniarek i Poloznych
• Hospital of Lithuanina University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics
• SIHTASUTUS TARTU ULIKOOLI KLIINIKUM
• Polskie Towarzystwo Pielegniarskie
• The Czech Nurses Association