safe patient handling needs from patient admission to discharge identifying the risk factors...
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Safe Patient Handling Needs From Patient Admission to Discharge
Identifying the Risk Factors
Speakers: Paula Pless & Robert Guest
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A Comprehensive Safe Patient Handling and Movement Program…
Identifies, Reduces and Mitigates the
Injury Risk Factors for Both the Patient & Healthcare Staff.
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Keys to identifying risk factors:
• Knowledge of the patient’s history (medical, functional & social)
• Knowledge of the environment (hospital/unit, home & community)
• Knowledge of the staff (patient, equipment, & policies)
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Our Journey BeginsA 40 y.o. female patient arrives in your emergency
department after falling at home. She was self transferring OOB to her wheel chair by pivoting when the fall occurred. She c/o pain & swelling right shoulder & knee.
• PMHX-MS (numbness right UE & LE, blurred vision, bowel & bladder dysfunction, lack of coordination
• Social history: unemployed• Husband & family perform stand pivot transfer as
needed OOB, to commode and shower chair. Patient occasionally ambulates with rolling walker.
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Questions-the audience will be responsible to apply their current knowledge and or their newly obtained knowledge from the conference to take the patient safely from Admission to Discharge.
~identify risk~select the appropriate SPH equipment~reduce risk ~mitigate the potential risk factors
