Stephen Morley No Lift Coordinator, Registered Nurse Division 1, Bendigo Health (P32, Friday, NZI 6 Room, 12-12.30)

1. ‘No Lift education and Bariatric
Care across a Multidisciplinary
Health Field’
July 2010- June11
Stephen Morley
March 2012

2. Bendigo Health

3. Educating a diverse workforce
• Registered Nurses;
– General stream Graduate Nurses.
– Psychiatric stream Graduate Nurses.
• Enrolled Nurses.
• Unit Managers.
• Physiotherapist.
• Occupational therapist.
• Medical Students (Doctors).
• Health Service Assistants.
• Porters.
• Students;
• Undergraduate Nurse.
• Enrolled Nurses.
• Physiotherapist.
• Occupational Therapists.

4. Training / Education offered
• Full day (New staff).
• Partial day;
– 4 hour.
– 2 hour.
– 1 hour.
• Ongoing staff education;
– ward and individual.
• Return to work or duties;
– ward and individual.

5. Training Offered
• Full day:
– 2 hours legal and background information.
– 3 > 4 hours practical.
– 1 hour problem solving and documentation and
debriefing.
• Partial day:
• 4 hours (Train the Trainer update);
• 1 hour legal and background information.
• 2 ½ hours practical.
• ½ hours problem solving and documentation.

6. Training Offered
• 2 hour:
– 1 hour documentation.
– 1 hour practical (refresher - competency).
• Ongoing education:
– 1 hour.
– Ward based / planning days.
• Annual documentation completed prior to education.
• 1 hour, practical competency / problem solving.

7. Education:
• Full training days. • 220 participants.
• Division 1 students. • 180 students.
• Division 2 students. • 95 students.
• Graduate Nurses. • 37 Nurses.
• Medical students. • 25 Doctors.
• Ward training. • 455 participants.
• Individual. • 30+.
– Total 1045+..

8. Legal and documentation
• Included:
– Legal;
• OH&S.
• Policy of Bendigo Health.
• Work safe.
– Documentation;
• When.
• Where and
• Why.

9. Practical
• On bed.
• Off bed.
• Lifting equipment.
• Posture and techniques.
• Practical Solutions.
• Team nursing;
– Floor hoists.
– Over head tracking.
– Hover Jack and Hover
Mat.

10. Bariatric Education
Potential problem to solution
Problem : Adaptability
• Staffing.
• Education.
• Problem Solving.
• Equipment;
– Lifters.
– Transferring .
– Beds.
– Ward enviroment.

11. Education
Participation Training Room

12. What we have learnt
• Education planning;
– pre attendance.
• Adaptability to class (environment and
structure).
• Common sense approach.
• Evidence based education.
• Good follow up of ideas and questions.
• Learning from your students.

13. What else we have done
• Visited other facilities.
• Networking.
• Bariatric Patient Check List & Risk
Assessment.
• Inventory of equipment on all campuses.
• Individual patient assessments.

14. What else we have done
• Inventory of equipment available on the
BH intranet site, (pictures and SWL).
• Unit specific competencies (Med / Surg /
CCU etc.).
• Updated: No Lift Policy.
• Ongoing education for staff and 3 way
access for staff;
– Pager / phone / email.

15. Thankyou
Stephen Morley
No Lift Coordinator.
Bendigo Health.
Po Box 126
Bendigo
3552
smorley@bendigohealth.org.au

16. Acknowledgments
• Louise O’Shea No Lift.
• Jenny Hocking – No Lift coordinator
Bendigo Health.
• Bariatric Working Party Bendigo Health.
• OH&S Department Bendigo Health.