Don’t understand leverage based patient transfers
Our staff has patient transfers under control
Patient transfers are not a problem here
Solutions are too expensive
It’s not my problem
Any one of these reasons is sufficient to keep your health care
That’s what it boils down too, lifting and twisting. Eliminate these two actions and you eliminate injuries to patients in the transfer process. It is easy to eliminate lifting, just use a portable transfer plate to reduce 90% of the
The need for patients to transfer is constant and often immediate. This puts a large strain on the nursing profession. Nurses are not taught leverage techniques used by industry to move large, heavy bulky loads so they are often injured.