This document discusses various techniques for moving and transferring patients, including: 1) Moving a patient up in bed can be done by one or two nurses using a slide sheet to promote comfort and proper body alignment. 2) Turning a patient onto their side or prone position ensures comfort, allows changing of linens/bed pans, and offers relief from pressure points. 3) Assisting a patient to sit up enables changes in position without injury and maintains good body mechanics. 4) Transferring a patient from bed to chair or between a bed and stretcher safely transfers patients and maintains proper body alignment, sometimes using mechanical devices.

1. MOVING ,LIFTING AND
TRANSFERRING…PATIENTS

2. INTRODUCTION

3. Moving a patient up in bed
• Definition
Assisting a patient who has slide down in bed to
move up
• Purposes
– To promote comfort
– To maintain proper alignment of thebody

4. Patient up in bed by one nurse and
using slide sheet (video)

6. Moving patient up in bed by two
nurses using slide sheet

8. Turning a patient to lateral or prone
position
• Definition
Changing position from supine to lateral/ prone for
repositioning or for doing procedures
• Purposes
To ensure comfort of patient
To perform procedures such as changing linen and
giving bed pan
To offer relief on pressure points in supine position

11. Assisting a patient to sitting position
Definition
Assisting a patient to move from lying down
position to a sitting position in bed
Purposes
– To enable change of position with out injury
– To maintain good body mechanics

13. Transferring a patients from bed to
chair
Definition
Assisting patient to a chair from the bed
Purposes
– To enable change of position with out injury
– To maintain good body mechanics

14. Transferring a patient between a bed
and a stretcher
Definition
Shifting a helpless patient from bed to
stretcher or from stretcher to bed
Purposes
– To transfer patient safely
– To maintain proper body alignment
Articles
– Stretcher
– Roller bar

15. • Transferring patient
– Bed to wheel chair
– Wheel chair to bed (using waist belt)
– Bed to stretcher
– Stretcher to bed
– By using mechanical devices

17. Logrolling
• Definition
Logrolling is a technique used to turn a patient
whose body must all times be kept in straight
alignment
• Purpose
Client with spinal injury for whom care must be
taken to prevent further injury

18. Video
• Hospital setup
• Accidental site

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