Course objectives
- Explain their legal rights and responsibilities
- Explain how the musculoskeletal system can be injured
- Identify risk factors associated with patient handling
- Apply the principles of safe lifting to inanimate objects
- Handle patients safely
Course content
- What and why
- Legislation
- Anatomy
- Risk assessment
- Principles of safe lifting
- Principles of safe patient handling
- Safe patient handling techniques
- Use of hoists
Certification
On completion, learners receive a Patient Handling certificate valid for two years.
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