Smith, Margaret CoulterPearson, C.Tropea, SavinaO'May, FionaIrvine, LindaRush, RobertWilson, R.2018-06-292018-06-292017-06-27Smith, M., Pearson, C., Tropea, S., O'May, F., Irvine, L., Rush, R. & Wilson, R. (2017) Exploring nursing perspectives on moving and handling in older people with osteoporosis in acute care settings. BMC Nursing, 16 (Suppl 1): S41472-6955http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-017-0218-2https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/4745Osteoporosis is highly prevalent worldwide and is associated with increased risk of low trauma fracture (LTF) [1], increased morbidity and mortality [2]. Major advances in diagnosis, management and prevention of secondary fractures have occurred [3] but implications for acute nursing care are less well documented. This project investigated practitioners' experiences of caring for people with osteoporosis, knowledge of the disease, explored implications for moving and handling, reported patients' care experiences, and developed education for frontline staff.S4© The Author(s). 2017 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.conference paperhttp://DOI 10.1186/s12912-017-0218-2