Relocating, moving and mobilizing patients are integral parts of a nurse’s daily work. Anyone working with the elderly and patients knows: This is back-breaking work in the truest sense of the word. Many nursing staff therefore suffer from back problems. This is most often caused by frequent lifting of heavy loads – often in a forward bent posture – and lack of use of technical aids in the fast-paced and often stressful working day.
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 tasks in the care sector. Today it is about raising a seated resident with two nursing staffs.
Preparation for nursing staff
• The nursing staffs take a firm stand laterally to the chair
• One hand lies on the knee, the other hand under the resident’s buttocks
• The back stays straight, the view goes forward
Raising the resident
• The resident’s upper body is pressed forward until the buttocks lift off the seat
• His knees are pressed down and backwards until the resident returns to sitting in an upright position on the backrest
Here are all the steps shown in a video:
