Improve your community carers’ understanding of manual handling for all types of clients in the community
Prepared by: Shannon Palmer
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles Australia
Don’t have any experience in aged care or manual handling and worried about injuring yourself or clients/patients? Don’t know how to use a frame or walking aid to properly walk a person? Not sure how to transfer a person. There are some simple principles and practices to solve these issues and to avoid:
- Being scared of injuring yourself or others
- Not sure how to best transfer or assist a resident
- What to do with frames, wheelchairs and walking aids
You’re not alone. According to a recent survey we conducted, xx% of our aged care facility members suffer from the same issues. Many staff and employees have difficulty in knowing how to best transfer or assist another person. There are many aspects to providing assistance to another person in a safe way that best helps them and keeps you safe at the same time.
That is why Wellness & Lifestyles have created W&L Manual Handling for Community Carers, which helps to solve these issues and problems.
What this training can do for you…
- Give you a basic understanding of manual handling
- Help to identify, control and manage risk.
- Improve understanding of spine structure and function
- Improve understanding of principles of safe manual handling and reduce risk of injury
- How to best transfer and assist clients in all ways.
Included in this training is…
- Definition of manual handling
- Community policy on manual handling
- Anatomy of the spine, injury mechanism and safe lifting principles
- Education about how to use frame, wheelchair and perform correct transfers.
- What to do when a client falls
- Factors influencing manual handling
Who should use this training?
You should go through this training if you provide some sort of level of care to a resident or client in a facility or the community and you assist them in transferring or walking.
By receiving better education, training and instruction on manual handling you will be able to now provide better assistance to your clients while at the same time placing yourself and the client in a much safer environment.
Now not all clients will be the same in terms of their individual assistance needs and the amount of support. Some staff may find it hard to know hat to do with different client and in different situations.
This presentation gives a great overall understanding about what potential problems may arise and how to best tackle them. It also provides you with many tools, techniques and strategies to best enable you to confidently be able to assist a client in way requiring some form of manual handling.
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