Patient Handling Course
Course Aim:
To provide learners with the knowledge, skills and attitude required for safe patient handling.
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course learners will be able to:
- explain their legal rights and responsibilities,
- explain how the musclo-skeletal system can get injuried,
- identify risk factors associated with patient handling,
- apply the principles of safe lifting to inanimate objects,
- handle patients safely.
Course Content:
- What, Why?
- Legislation
- Anatomy
- Risk Assessment
- Principles of safe lifting.
- Principles of Safe Patient Handling
- Safe Patient Handling Techniques
- Use of hoists
Course Certification:
On completion of the course learners will recieve a Patient Handling certificate valid for 2 years.
Course Duration:
1 day
Course Cost:
130 euro per person
600 euro for a group of up to 12 persons