774 Safe Patient Handling Program

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Employee Training

Training and education are critical to the success of any safe patient handling program, especially training on proper patient handling equipment use and ongoing education about the benefits of safe patient handling.

Training and education are critical to the success of any safe patient handling program.

By educating all staff, including physicians, about your safe patient handling program, hospitals can reduce instances of a clinician asking or expecting colleagues to move patients in an unsafe way.

Training can range from onsite demonstrations of equipment use and maintenance to broader safe patient handling education programs and national conferences.

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3-7. What is the advantage of educating all staff, including physicians, about your SPH program?

Clinicians are less likely to ask colleagues to move patients in an unsafe way

Clinicians can help in moving patients without the assistance of colleagues

Employees can "educate up" when clinicians tell them to handle patients incorrectly

The per employee cost of SPH program training is cut in half

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