Learn how to avoid poor handling practices, staff injuries and the best way to move residents.
Prepared by: Shannon Palmer
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles Australia
As a nurse or carer, you are all too familiar with heavy lifting, sustained awkward positioning, excessive reaching and static posturing. Some common complaints we hear from carers or staff:
- What is manual handling?
- Unsure how to correctly transfer a resident?
- How to use lifting equipment properly?
- Why am I getting aches and strains and how to avoid them?
With this training presentation, our physiotherapists show you that there is another way. Learn about the new techniques and technologies specifically designed to reduce care-giver and patient injuries.
That is why Wellness & Lifestyles has created W&L Manual Handling – People Moving, which helps to solve these issues and problems.
What this training can do for you…
- Detail exactly what manual handling means?
- Sort out any manual handling issues or concerns you may have
- Prevent risk of injury and incidence in the workplace
- Improve resident safety and comfort
- Provide better staff awareness and quality of care
Included in this training is…
- Definition of manual handling
- Manual handling policy & rationale
- Factors influencing manual handling techniques
- Principles for all manual handling
- Basic anatomy/injury prevention
- Practical application of manual handling techniques. This includes:
- sit-to-stand/stand transfers
- walking with a resident
- when a resident falls
- bed mobility (including slide sheet use)
- lying-to-sitting
- using hoist and stand lifters
Who should use this training?
You should go through this training if you are a carer, staff member or work in an aged care facility and have to deal with residents on a daily basis. If you are a carer and have concerns about certain manual handling procedures or are unsure about the correct techniques for performing transfers with residents, then this is definitely for you.
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 everyone requires the same level of skill and training regarding manual handling, such as admin staff versus care staff. However you will never know when you might be required to help out a resident within the facility.
This presentation covers everything you will need to know concerning moving a resident or elderly person. Not only will you feel more confident in knowing what the correct techniques are but you will be providing a much safer environment for not only the other staff and resident, but mostly yourself through a better understanding and ability to perform any manual handling task regarding the movement of people.
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