Healthcare Back Safety Videos

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Whether your staff is moving patients, test tubes, laundry or food, they need to protect their backs from undue stress. All healthcare workers have a high risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders or back injuries.

Back Safety for Health Care Providers program explains how the back works. We want to explain how the back works so you'll have enough information to make the right choices on how to lift anything safely

As a healthcare worker, you spend a good portion of your busy day moving and lifting patients. Not only do you risk hurting yourself in the process, but you may risk the safety of the patient as well.

Lifting Patients From Chairs - There’s no easy, generic way to describe how to safely lift or move a patient. Each patient and each situation is unique. For example, during your busy day, you may have to move a patient from a bed to a wheelchair or from a wheelchair to a bathtub.

How can your workers minimize muscle pulls, fractures and other work related injuries? This program will give demonstrations for lateral transfers/re-positioning, lifting, ambulating, bath-tub-shower and toileting activities, lifting from the floor, guiding and slowing falls, daily activities and bedside assistance.

Prevention of falls should be the focus of your facility. Two-thirds of seniors who have fallen will have a repeat fall within six months. The focus of preventive action needs to be centered on awareness of conditions that predispose a person to fall. This program provides practical guidelines to identify risks. (2 CE Contact Hours)

The ergonomic training package includes 6 videos and a CD-Rom of written materials.

Each patient and situation for moving a patient is unique. You may have to move a patient from a bed to a wheelchair or from a wheelchair to a bathtub. Each task is different and each one has a specific way in which it can be done safely and correctly.

Business Training Media's new "Patient Handling Safety" training courses discuss the hazards that can be associated with patient handling tasks, and what healthcare workers can do to prevent accidents and injuries from occurring while they perform them.