‘No Lift education and Bariatric Care across a Multidisciplinary

Health Field’July 2010- June11

Stephen Morley

March 2012

Bendigo Health

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.

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.

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.

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.

Education:

• Full training days. • Division 1 students.• Division 2 students.• Graduate Nurses.• Medical students.• Ward training.• Individual.

• 220 participants.• 180 students.• 95 students.• 37 Nurses.• 25 Doctors.• 455 participants.• 30+.

– Total 1045+..

Legal and documentation

• Included: – Legal;

• OH&S.• Policy of Bendigo Health.• Work safe.

– Documentation;• When. • Where and• Why.

Practical

• On bed.• Off bed.• Lifting equipment.• Posture and techniques.• Practical Solutions. • Team nursing;

– Floor hoists.– Over head tracking. – Hover Jack and Hover

Mat.

Bariatric EducationPotential problem to solution

Problem :• Staffing.• Education.• Problem Solving.• Equipment;

– Lifters.– Transferring .– Beds.– Ward enviroment.

Adaptability

Education

Participation Training Room

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.

What else we have done

• Visited other facilities.• Networking.• Bariatric Patient Check List & Risk

Assessment.• Inventory of equipment on all campuses.• Individual patient assessments.

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.

Thankyou

Stephen Morley

No Lift Coordinator.

Bendigo Health.

Po Box 126

Bendigo

3552

smorley@bendigohealth.org.au

Acknowledgments

• Louise O’Shea No Lift. • Jenny Hocking – No Lift coordinator

Bendigo Health.• Bariatric Working Party Bendigo Health.• OH&S Department Bendigo Health.