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Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance
Hamish MacGregor
- English
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Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance
Hamish MacGregor
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Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance
The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.
Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.
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From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a succinct and visual guide to the topic of moving and handling. Wide-ranging yet easy to read, Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance provides an accessible introduction to the key theoretical underpinnings of moving and handling, including the legal aspects, biomechanics, risk assessment and safe principles of handling. It then explores the practical aspects of handling, supported by clear and straightforward illustrations and photographs.
- A clear, concise and comprehensive guide to moving and handling patients
- Superbly illustrated, with full colour photographs throughout
- Practice-oriented and based on the latest evidence to provide safe and effective patient care
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Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance is ideal for nursing students, health care assistants, newly qualified nurses, as well as physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
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Preguntas frecuentes
Información
Part 1
Theory
- 1 Legislation
- 2 Legislation
- 3 Structure and function of the spine
- 4 Posture and back care
- 5 Safe principles of moving and handling
- 6 Controversial techniques
- 7 Risk assessment: moving and handling
- 8 Risk assessment: general
- 9 Individual patient handling assessment
1
Legislation: I
![Under Health and Safety at Work Act, five to-do points listed for employer such as provide safe equipment; safety from hazardous substances; information, training et cetera.
Under Health and Safety at Work Act, three to-do points listed for employee include take care of own health, no damage to equipment, be willing to receive training.
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations lists five points related to risk; its assessment and reduction. Definitions of competent person, risk and hazard provided.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations lists four duties of employer as avoid manual handling tasks, assess risky handling tasks, reduce risk, review assessments regularly.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations lists two duties of employee as follow appropriate systems provided by employer, report accidents and near miss events.](https://book-extracts.perlego.com/997646/images/ec01f001-plgo-compressed.webp)
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA)
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR)
- The likelihood of the hazard or the risk concerned occurring.
- The degree of harm that might result from the hazard or the risk.
- What the person concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know, about the hazard or risk, and ways of eliminating or minimising the risk.
- The availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or minimise the risk.
- Assessing if the cost of eliminating or reducing the risk is grossly disproportionate to the actual risk.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 as amended 2002 (MHOR)
- Any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force.
Índice
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1 Theory
- Part 2 Practice
- Case study 1: Assessing a bariatric patient
- Case study 2: Managing leg ulcer dressings in the community (kneeling)
- Index
- EULA