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Improve your safe patient handling training technique
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(7 ratings)
36 students
Created byGavin Wright
Last updated 3/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Perception: Anticipating what your client/patient sees
  • REBA: Rapid Entire Body Assessment, assessing your student's posture
  • Anatomy: Spinal awareness
  • Duty: Your duty of care towards your students
  • Natural: Examining how natural patterns of movement can assist you to assist others

Course content

5 sections • 8 lectures • 1h 59m total length

  • Introduction2:33

    This lecture is aimed primarily towards those involved in the moving and handling of people, or safe patient handling. However, anyone who has an interest in moving vulnerable people would benefit from this session. Whether that be as a healthcare professional, a care assistant or a family member caring for someone at home. It will not qualify you as an instructor, you will need to complete an accredited course for that. But it will give you and your students a clearer understanding of some of the principles involved.

    The first section looks at Perception. It looks at how easily your mind can be tricked by what you see. That being the case, so can those individuals that you are helping to get around. If you are both being tricked by what you see, well, disaster follows. She fell for no reason is a common phrase that I have come across. There is always a reason, you just haven't figured out what that reason was.

    The 2nd section look at REBA. Rapid Entire Body Assessment. How to instantly know what postural risk you, your colleagues and other carers are putting yourself into. Although this concept takes time to write down, it is rapid in that an experienced person can do an assessment with the click of a finger.

    The next section is all about anatomy of the spine. Dispelling some misnomers and s]highlighting the importance of back care when moving or assisting someone.

    The final part is dealing with your duty of care. Not only duty of care towards the person you are caring for, but essentially towards those you are teaching in regards to safe person handling.

    The first section has a free 100-page downloadable presentation which is valid for the remaining parts as well as other sessions that don't form part of this course. There is also a manual that explains how to get the best from the presentation.

    So sign up right away and I will see you on the inside.

Requirements

  • Access to a printer is required

Description

Hello, My name is Gavin Wright and I have been involved with safer systems of work in the manual handling of people for the past 30 years or so. During this time, I have taught one to one with individuals wishing to assist their spouse, healthcare workers in all settings from care home staff to fire and rescue departments, as well as operating theatre staff, airline cabin crew and mountain rescue.

In the past I have held the post of Professional Development Officer for the National Back Exchange (the organisation responsible for the research that goes into safer patient moving and handling), National Moving & Handling Coordinator for South Africa and am currently a non executive director for a company working closely with South African Governments' National Health Ministry.

This short course looks at some of the principles that I have picked up along the way that will facilitate anyone involved in moving and handling of people training. Typically this is Safe Patient Moving & Handling and Health & Safety trainers. However everyone who moves people as part of their job, would benefit from this course. Its primary focus is to look at the elements that often get overlooked by trainers. For instance, how to rapidly assess the level of risk someone places themselves in when performing a task, utilising natural patterns of movement in assisting another person to move and how to ensure that your duty of care is not compromised once your students leave the classroom.

Who this course is for:

  • Primarily aimed at anyone who teaches or would like to teach the art of moving and handling or safe patient handling. However, the course is also good for people caring for elderly, frail or infirm people at home.
  • Occupational & Physio Therapists
  • Nurses & Carers
  • Health and safety trainers

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