Patient Handling Training Objective & Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course participants will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to:

• Explain their legal rights and responsibilities
• Explain how the musclo-skeletal system can get injured
• Identify risk factors associated with patient handling
• Apply the principles of safe lifting to inanimate objects
• Handle patients safely
• Recognise a load which is too heavy or awkward
• Understand the limitations of the spine and muscular system
• Conduct a patient handling risk assessment
• Lift and handle patients safely
• Understand correct lifting techniques

Course Content

• Legislation
• Dangers of Unsafe Lifting
• Overview of Safety Legislation
• Anatomy of the Spine and Muscular System
• Safe Lifting Points
• Injuries Associated with Manual Handling
• Importance of Exercise and Nutrition
• Competence Testing
• Dangers of Careless and Unskilled Methods
• Principles of Levers and Laws of Motion
• Potential Harm Through Incorrect Patient Handling Techniques
• Importance of Physical Fitness
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Patient Handling Aids and Techniques
• Normal Patient Movement
• Patient Risk Assessment
• Patient Profiling
• Use of Hoists and Other Lifting/Moving Equipment

Instruktører

Jennifer Lawson Certified Instructor Confined Space.

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