Patient Handling Training

Schedule

Course Information

Participants will receive Sensible Safety certificate of attendance on completion of a written and practical assessment.  Certification is valid for 2 years from a QQI qualified Patient/Manual Handling tutor.

The aim of the Patient/Manual Handling Training programme is to ensure that learners gain the skills required to carry out the key principles of the Kinetic Lifting Technique in a safe manner.

Manual Handling Course Content

• Legislation
• Anatomy of Spine, vertebrae and intervertebral discs.
• Manual Handling risk assessments
• TILE Principle
• Fitness and Flexibility
• Ergonomics
• 8 Principles of Lifting
• Demonstrate the correct technique for lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying loads by hand and team lifting.
• Practical Demonstration and Assessment

Patient Handling Course Content

• The Law and its Application to the Manual Handling Environment
• Musculoskeletal System
• Biomechanics and Mechanism of Injury
• Flexibility
• Ergonomics and Risk Assessment
• Basic Principles of Lifting
• Log Roll
• Sitting Patient up in Bed
• Turning patient in bed using sliding sheets
• Moving patient up the bed using sliding sheets
• Sitting Patient to edge of a bed
• Standing patient
• Transferring patient from bed to chair
• The falling patient
• Correct use of hoist / slings

Class Size

10 max per group

Prerequisites

Credits