3. Who We are B
Community Living Trust Therapy Services
Jackie
Liz
4. L
termInology L
Patients: service users, clients, people we support,
subjects, residents
Helpers: Support people, paid workers, volunteers,
family members, friends, nurses
Leaders: therapists, educators, team leaders,
managers, service co-ordinators
5. PatIent dIgnIty J
Patients are not just loads. They don’t have handles.
They come in different shapes and sizes. They have
feelings. They need to be handled safely, with care
and dignity.
Patient handling and quality of care are dependent on
staff safety and competence.
Quote from Section 2 Why Moving and Handling Programmes are Needed June 2011 Draft.
8. Who IS the clIent? J
Person referred
Person's family
Paid support people – home and vocational
Friends or anyone else who assists transfers
9. JugglIng
PrIorItIeS
Safety
Independence
Maintaining ability to stand
Duty of care
Dignity of risk
Family/ethnic culture
Dignity
Level of understanding
Right to work in a safe environment. A home becomes a
work environment.
Who makes the decision?
10. BehavIoural
ISSueS L
Communication
Timing
Motivation
Medication
Natural rhythms
Hitting, biting, head banging
Underlying issues for Behaviour
12. Peter
L
Peter is very frail and unable to transfer on his own
Lives in own home with family support
Family do not want a hoist in the home
Also has paid carer coming into his home
He needs regular position changes
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
13. Sam
J
• Not walking
• Was using standing hoist to remove pants and go to
the toilet
• No longer weight bearing effectively for standing
hoist. Relying on extensor tone.
• Full hoist now required, however cannot get pants
down even in a hygiene sling
• To use the full hoist requires clothing to be managed
on the bed, this now involves many transfers to use
the toilet
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
14. mary-Jane
J
Elderly woman with CP
Very frail skin ‘tissue paper’
Decreasing physical and cognitive ability
Too unsafe for standing hoist, has had falls and staff
want/need to use full hoist
Mary-Jane very distressed about change
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
15. Jack
L
18 year old man with C.P.
Significant I.D. + P.D. – no reliable communication
Loss of ROM in all joints
Low bone density “density of a 90 yr old”. #’s on
movement. Currently #R patella #L humerus
High pressure risk – currently ulcer on sacrum and
gluteal crease
Frequent seizures
Lives with his mother. Goes to several places for
respite care
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
16. BIll
L
Lives in residential service
Varied level of ‘skill’ in the team
“easy to lift”
Refusal from team to use hoist and sling
“hoist too hard, not enough space, takes too long”
Staff’s right to choose to do this?
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
17. rangI
J
• Mobile but occasionally falls
• Once on floor difficult to get up
• There is no hoist – and does not meet funding criteria
for one in the home
when the book don't work
challenging the boundaries 2012
18. hoW do you?
B
Transfer from seat onto a prone wedge?
19. Assist a person into a
swimming pool
where there is no
pool hoist?
20. Position
someone in a
contoured
seating system
without lifting,
bending and
twisting?
21. IS there more to
conSIder aBout?......
Physical closeness
“Therapeutic handling”
Essentials of life
Dignity of risk
Fitness of support person
Gender considerations
Cultural considerations
Jackie Families for those living at home + in residential
Jackie – risks for support person -Not evaluating the situation LITE Liz Risks for clients Injury clients losing function Losing independence and Risk of closing peoples lives down Losing opportunity to gain strength and skills e.g. Corey dignity motivation Pressure risks, seizures, medical
Jackie
LIZ Duty of care Dignity of risk - Liz story Right to choose Cognitive ability of client, family, support people Tension between home and work
Liz These effect how we approach MH
Handouts given out here break into groups here Use these as starting points for discussions
Liz Peter does not like it Hoist takes up too much space Family not confident in using hoist What are the concerns? List questions for participants to answer e.g why might they not want a hoist in the home? How can this be resolved? Employer policy is not to lift Who’s concern is priority? Ceiling hoist Size of house Ability of family to learn to use the hoist
Jackie Sam is a woman Mechanical solutions? Look up “she wee” Risk of wheeling person around house in hoist
Jackie What is priority? Can Mary-Jane choose not to use the hoist? Options other than a hoist? “ duty of care”? Friction and shear Sleeves and cuffs (bring example) skin care
Liz Reduced transfers but also needing to change position Need to support legs during transfers – often only one person present. weight of cast put pressure on femur as it became a fulcrum therefore had to support femur to prevent further # at school leg carried How do you get sling on him? Para-silk sling reduced need to put sling under him Spinal rod inserted for scoliosis – not able to lie prone for 1 year. Not able to lie on right due to # humerus or left due to # patella Seizures triggered by pain and stress All ulcers occurred following hospital admission Transported in hoist !!!! From bed to wheelchair in lounge as wheelchair with leg extensions would not go through door. Foot up on battery pack of hoist Used tilt in WC, + tilt to get him seated correctly in WC obtained equipment to use in other settings + lazy-boy, encouraged weight increase by supplementing intake, work with hospital, slide sheet Alternating air increased seizures – sound proof bag Used cushions to support humerus when that was the only #
Spare Is there room to compromise?
Spare What do you do? Decrease option for mobility? Call an ambulance? Staff training on how to get up – maybe a ‘lift’? Jackie to check with Enable re funding question