Training in safe patient handling Assisting people safely

Therapists

Course for Therapists
(one day)

Target Audience
This course will benefit those therapists working in a rehabilitation setting, and using assistive equipment to allow patients to achieve their potential.

Course Information

  • Delegates will have been given an explanation of the laws affecting manual handling issues, and the complexities surrounding treatment handling will have been explored.
  • Balanced decision making will be discussed, and use of equipment to enable therapists to increase patient safety whilst challenging boundaries will be practised
  • All will have spent time devising practical solutions to the hazardous manual handling elements of mobilising patients with a physical impairment
  • Relevant legal and professional issues will be discussed

 

Therapists
Course for Therapists


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For further information or to book a course please email us at info@hertshandling.co.uk

 

Course for Therapists
(one day)

Target Audience
This course will benefit those therapists working in a rehabilitation setting, and using assistive equipment to allow patients to achieve their potential.

Course Information

  • Delegates will have been given an explanation of the laws affecting manual handling issues, and the complexities surrounding treatment handling will have been explored.
  • Balanced decision making will be discussed, and use of equipment to enable therapists to increase patient safety whilst challenging boundaries will be practised
  • All will have spent time devising practical solutions to the hazardous manual handling elements of mobilising patients with a physical impairment
  • Relevant legal and professional issues will be discussed

 

Therapists
Course for Therapists


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For further information or to book a course please email us at info@hertshandling.co.uk

 

Sling Record

Sling Record is a set of 16 templates, each one featuring a commonly used type of sling. Designed to reduce the risk that a carer will use the wrong sling or incorrectly fit the correct one.

Buy and download Sling Record developed in association with Pat Alexander from clinicalskills.net