Healthcare environments often involve heavy, awkward, and equipment-assisted lifting. Do this safely for you and the patient!
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.
This program has been updated. Please click HERE for fully updated course.
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 in these products include:
All "Patient Handling Safety" products are available in English (Spanish will be available later in 2020).
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View this course in a classroom
environment, or assign it to your
team individually with testing
and recordkeeping capabilities.