Guided Learning Hours
Approximately 150 minutes are required for this course.
Form of Assessment
A short test concludes each module. A passmark of 70% for each module is required to successfully pass the course.
Syllabus
- The Principles of Safer Patient Handling
- Moving and Handling Assessments
- Practical Skills
- Transferring and Walking
- Avoiding and Dealing with Patient Falls
- Fitting and Using a Flat or Tubular Slide Sheet
- Bed Mobility
- Other Patient Manoeuvres
- Sitting a Patient Up
- Hoisting
- Checking the Hoist
- More Hoisting Practicalities
- More Hoisting Techniques
