Posted By Brett Webb
Hello,

Can anyone provide me with an example of what they included in the patient chart to assess patient mobility or equipment needed for patient handling?

Or a different process you have adopted to help patient handling assessments for care providers.

Thanks,

Brett.

Posted By Jean
I'm delivering some manual handling training next week. The table activity sounds like fun, I'll have a go with that one..I did my manual handling instructor training with the fire service. As part of the programme we had to train participants on our course to place items in a boot of a car and then remove items that had been placed in the boot by someone else who had not been trained in manual handling without injuring ourselves.

Brett are you by any chance training staff to lift patients with various conditions. The reason that I ask, is that for lifting of patients, the disease/condition has to be taken into account. (I bet you knew that)

All the best

Jean

Posted By Brett Webb
Thanks to everyone who responded. I have plenty of patient assessments forms and procedures from around the world (as I am from Australia, lived in England and now I'm in Canada). What i was looking for specifically is how people went about transferring this information into the patient chart (which is proving extremely difficult for several reasons). I was hoping to provide (my barriers) examples that what other hospitals have used and the how successful it has been. Therefore if someone could provide me with this information i would be extremely grateful.

It is quite a barrier that we are yet to overcome.

Thanks
Brett