Speaker: Colleen Christopher, OTR Regional Clinical Manager, Diligent Services/ARJOHuntleigh

Safe Patient

Handling

Caregivers require protection as much as patients…..

First Do No Harm….

Otherwise they become

the patients

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•Number of patients/day (P)

•Number of lifts/patient (L)

• Average weight/patient (W)

Average Weight/Day = P x L x W

What you lift each day…. do the math.

6 X 6 X 200

7,200# / day!

Combine this with…. • Graying workforce - “Wisdom Workers”

• Avg age of nursing staff = 47.5

• 12% nurses leave the profession each year due to back injuries

• Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation (35 lbs)

• Costs for Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers per hospital stay $43,160

• Costs due to Falls and Trauma per hospital Stay $33,894

(Data from CMS- 1390-P, May 2008

• Other Healthcare Initiatives

• JCAHO

• 5 Million Lives Campaign

• Institute Of Medicine Healthcare Quality Initiative:Crossing the Quality Chasm

• NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators)

» Patient Outcome and Nursing Staffing Data

A Decades Old Nursing

Culture….

The patient comes first

….even if the caregiver is at risk of injury.

Proper body mechanics and/or two-person lifts will prevent back injuries ….35 years of research dispute this belief

A patient that is 100# is “light”

…only in healthcare would we think 100# is light!

• It’s too time consuming…..

And

• It doesn’t relate to quality of patient care or their safety….

Culture

“Culture is what a company thinks is important, not just

what it says is important…

It boils down to the difference between lip service

and what is embraced…”

Michael Useem, Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management,

Wharton School, as quoted in USA Today, 8-28-03

When people talk about culture change, what

they really want is behavior change.

Changing culture happens by

speaking about changing behavior,

modeling changed behavior, and

rewarding changed behavior.

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Safe Patient Handling

means….

Quality of Care

Consistent with Rehabilitation

TM

Patient Profiles

Determining appropriate piece

Physical Capabilities

Mental Capabilities

Weight

Nursing

Therapy

Active Lifts

Stedy

Sara 3000

Sara Plus

Passive Lifts

Tenor

MaxiSky

MaxiMove

Friction Reduction Devices

MaxiSlides MaxiTubes

HoverMatt

What Goes Where ICU’s

Med/Surg

Ortho

Neuro

Rehab

Pediatric’s

OR

PACU

ED

Diagnostics

Imaging

Clinics

LTC