03/20/2024: Patient Handling Hazards and Prevention

Recorded on Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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Patient Handling Hazards and Prevention

About the webinar:

Manual patient handling tasks such as repositioning in bed, bed to chair transfers, and mobility assistance generate profound ergonomic stressors on healthcare workers, resulting in uniquely high rates of musculoskeletal injuries. Although effective equipment is available to prevent manual patient handling, it often goes unused. Join Dr. Kiydal to discuss how safe patient handling and mobility programs are systems-based solutions that can mitigate musculoskeletal risk when implemented comprehensively.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

  • Describe the hazards of manual patient handling and the epidemiology of patient handling injuries in healthcare settings

  • Quanitfy the human and business costs of manual patient handling

  • Discuss interventions to prevent patient handling injuries and the systems necessary for implementation

Speaker: Danya Kiydal, MD, MPH

Danya Kiydal is a medical resident in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine and her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

ACCREDITATION

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 Contact Hour. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12983, for 1.0 contact hour.

Certificates of Completion

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In order to receive your Certificate of Completion, qualified learners must complete the post-webinar evaluation within 7 days of the webinar. A link to the evaluation will be emailed to qualified learners 24 hours after the webinar via no-reply@zoom.us. Qualified learners who submit their evaluation will receive a Certificate of Completion via email, and can also print/save the certificate from their browser after submitting their evaluation.

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ACCESSIBILITY:

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Michelle Meyer at (510) 642-8365 or mmeyer@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (UC ERC)

The University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (UC ERC)

The University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (UC ERC) serves the regional and national needs in occupational safety and health through interdisciplinary academic education, research training and professional development courses. MS and Ph.D. degrees are offered; a wide range of continuing education courses are available for practicing professionals. Through outreach activities, research findings are shared with practitioners and research is translated to practice.