•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
•Ideal for nursing students, health care assistants, newly qualified nurses, as well as physiotherapists and occupational therapists

Preface
Part 1: Theory

1. Legislation I

2. Legislation II

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

Part 2: Practice Load handling and practical application of ergonomics

10. Lifting a load

11. Pushing a bed

12. Good workstation set-up

13. Postural issues with laptops and tablets Moving a patient In and out of a chair and walking

14. Assessing the patient

15. Moving a patient forward in a chair

16. Standing a patient: with one handler

17. Standing a patient: with two handlers

18. Seating a patient

19. Moving a patient back in a chair

20. Walking with handler(s)

21. Tips for using walking frames

22. Assisting a patient off the floor: verbal Sitting a patient up, and in and out of bed

23. Sitting a patient using an electric profiling bed

24. Sitting a patient using a non-profiling bed

25. Sitting a patient onto the side of an electric profiling bed

26. Sitting a patient onto the side of a non-profiling bed

27. Lying a patient from the bed edge

28. Standing a patient from the bed edge

29. Standing a patient from the bed edge using a profiling bed Moving a patient within the bed

30. Turning a patient in bed: verbal

31. Turning a patient in bed: one handler

32. Turning a patient in bed: two handlers

33. Inserting a roller slide sheet under a patient

34. Inserting two flat slide sheets under a patient: unravelling technique

35. Inserting two flat slide sheets under a patient: by rolling patient

36. Moving a semi-independent patient up the bed on a roller slide sheet

37. Moving a patient up the bed with a roller slide sheet

38. Moving a patient up the bed with two flat slide sheets

39. Turning a patient in bed with roller slide sheets

40. Turning a patient in bed with flat slide sheets

41. Moving a patient’s legs into bed with a slide sheet Use of hoists and slings

42. Types of hoist

43. Types of sling

44. Insertion of sling into bed

45. Removal of sling from bed

46. Insertion of sling into chair

47. Removal of sling from chair

48. Insertion of sling into bed with slide sheets

49. Insertion of sling into chair with slide sheets

50. Hoisting from bed to chair with a mobile hoist

51. Hoisting from chair to bed with a mobile hoist

52. Hoisting from the floor with a mobile hoist

53. Using a standing hoist Lateral transfers

54. Lateral transfer from bed to bed/trolley

55. Transfer from chair to bed using a transfer board Other handling equipment

56. Assisting a patient to use a rota stand: one handler

57. Assisting a patient to use a rota-stand: two handlers

58. Use of standing and raising aids (non-mechanical)

59. Use of equipment for bariatric patients

60 Kneeling and working at floor level

Case studies

Case study 1: Assessing a bariatric patient

Case study 2: Managing leg ulcer dressings in the community (kneeling)

Index