Notably for activities during basic care, nursing staff often have to lean forward, for example to be able to wash patients’ legs or feet. High weights are often moved and the body reacts to unfavorable working angles in the medium and long term with symptoms and injuries – a consequence of excessive and one-sided loads during lifting and repositioning.
However, the ergonomic optimization of important work steps and the use of aids can at least reduce the stress on the nursing staff’s side and make it more tolerable. In our blog we give tips and instructions for the ergonomic execution of daily care operations. Today: Repositioning from sitting to lying position without pressure on the abdominal area.
Moving the resident
• A towel is placed under the thighs
• The resident grabs the towel, and so the elbows lie close to the upper body
• The chin is placed on the chest
• The nursing staff places one hand on the resident’s shoulder and the other hand on the side of his knee
• The nursing staff slowly pushes the resident back on the bed by his shoulder
• The nursing staff pushes against the legs and thus turns the resident into the lying position
Here are all steps in a video:
