Working Physically Safely and Respectfully in Healthcare

Working Physically Safely and Respectfully in Healthcare is organized by Netherlands Paramedical Institute (NPi) / Nederlands Paramedisch Instituut (NPi) and will be held from Mar 07 - 28, 2024 at Tergooi MC location Hilversum, Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands.

Description:
Are you a physiotherapist, exercise therapist or occupational therapist and do you provide healthcare providers with training or advice in physically safe working and movement techniques, or are you planning to do so? Then the practical and inspiring training 'Working physically safely and respectfully in healthcare' is something for you!

Based on their extensive experience in healthcare practice and as trainers at TRANSFERS beLICHT , Tinie Hake (physiotherapist) and Marianne van de Belt (exercise physiotherapist Cesar) will show you how you can combine mechanical aspects of a good working posture with haptonomic skills and how you can convey this. on the healthcare provider.

Central to this training are: working attitude, not using force, making contact, inviting through 'mirroring', 'feeling through', setting boundaries, rethinking and knowledge of tools. An actual change in 'thinking and doing' will occur if you can let healthcare providers experience what (the importance of) haptonomy is and how they can apply it in practice. It is also a personal approach, because haptonomy teaches the employee to pay attention to themselves, after which actual contact can be established with the client. Care provision therefore changes from mechanical working (= automatic and force-driven) to coordinated working (= allowing the client to participate to the best of his ability).

The following topics are covered during the training:
• Basic principles of physically safe working (working posture, occupational health and safety standards, haptonomy)
• Chair/bed transfer techniques on a haptonomic basis (all situations, including syndromes)
• Working with small aids (such as sliding sheet and tilting sheet)
• When can you use which aids
? • Putting on and taking off therapeutic elastic stockings
. • Application in your own work situation - questions and advice.

Subgoals:
After the course you will be:
• familiar with the basic skills of physically safe and respectful working:
- he knows the correct ergonomic working postures and uses this knowledge during care interventions for clients who sit in a chair or lie in bed, as well as with transfer techniques for clients who sit in a chair or laying in bed;
- he knows the relevant occupational health and safety standards (from: Arbobesluit) with regard to lifting, pushing & pulling, squatting & kneeling and is familiar with the alternatives;
- he knows the principles of haptonomic work and can use them during care procedures and transfer techniques with clients who are sitting in a chair or lying in bed.
• able to set boundaries based on the above basic principles and can and dares to make different choices in the implementation of care procedures if a working method no longer falls within the safe framework.
• familiar with the different transfer techniques, knows when to use which transfer techniques, can perform these physically safely for themselves and respectfully for the client, and can transfer these techniques to fellow healthcare providers.
• familiar with the aids that can be used in healthcare to prevent physical overload, knows when the aids must/can be used, and knows how to use the aids safely.
• familiar with how to properly put on and take off therapeutic elastic stockings, both on the chair and on the bed.
• familiar with the risks of working with lifts (active standing lift and passive lift).
• able to creatively devise solutions based on the basic principles for many other bottlenecks that he/she will encounter later in the field.
• able to identify bottlenecks among fellow care providers and can provide these colleagues with insight into physically safe and respectful working in a coaching manner.