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Patient Handling

Healthcare environments often involve heavy, awkward, and equipment-assisted lifting. Do this safely for you and the patient!

Length:
23 minutes
Language(s):
EN / ES
Year Produced:
2020

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Training Objectives:

Be aware of potential patient handling and caregiver injuries. Understand algorithms, patient assessment, and body mechanics. Learn to properly reposition a patient in a bed. Know the risks of patient transfer tasks.

Course Overview

Caring for patients in a healthcare environment can require nurses, aides, orderlies and other caregivers to lift as much as four thousand pounds during a typical shift. No wonder they're twice as likely to suffer musculoskeletal injuries on the job as employees in other industries. But these injuries don't have to occur.

Topics Covered:

  • Patient handling and caregiver injuries.
  • Algorithms, patient assessment and body mechanics.
  • Repostioning a patient in bed.
  • Performing patient transfer tasks safely.
  • Mechanical lift devices.
  • and more.

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