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Safe Patient Handling Needs From Patient Admission to Discharge Identifying the Risk Factors

Safe Patient Handling Needs From Patient Admission to Discharge Identifying the Risk Factors. Speakers: Paula Pless & Robert Guest. 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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Safe Patient Handling Needs From Patient Admission to Discharge Identifying the Risk Factors

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  1. Safe Patient Handling Needs From Patient Admission to DischargeIdentifying the Risk Factors Speakers: Paula Pless & Robert Guest

  2. A Comprehensive Safe Patient Handling and Movement Program…Identifies, Reduces and Mitigates the Injury Risk Factors for Both the Patient & Healthcare Staff.

  3. 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)

  4. Our Journey Begins A 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.

  5. 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

  6. Thank you ppless@kaleidahealth.org and rguest@kaleidahealth.org

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