What are some of the safety tips you should implement during a wheelchair transfer quizlet?

Step 1: Keeping back straight and feet slightly apart, bend hips and knees to become more level with patient.
Step 2: Using transfer belt or gripping patient around waist with one hand, under thighs with other, assist patient to come into sitting position at edge of bed.
Step 3:-While bending hips and knees, place feet so that you have a broad base of support and your knees are blocking the patient's knees.
-Lift patient by waist or by belt as you straighten your hips and knees and carefully rise with patient into standing position.
-Remember to keep slightly to side to give patient room enough to move and thus enable him to see area which he is being transferred.
Step 4: -Position yourself so you are standing close to patient, making sure that you still have broad base of support and, if necessary, are still using your knees to support patient's knees.
-Together, allow both yourself and patient to pivot/ turn, slightly shifting weight from one side to other and taking tiny steps.
Step 5: As patient bends forward to sit, slowly bend your hips and knees, gently easing patient to the seat and helping him in sliding back into wheelchair.

Step 1:The patient should enter car through right front door, if the steering wheel on left side hampers or inhibits transfer. -In addition, if patient is passenger, rear doors may not open wide enough to allow proper positioning of wheelchair for transfer.
Step 2: The door should be opened as wide as possible.
-If he wishes, patient may use edge of door after window has been rolled down, back of car seat, door frames of car, or seat of wheelchair for support.
Step 3: The patient turns his back to car seat and sits down. -He then swivels on seat to bring both feet inside, lifting up his involved leg with his hands, if necessary.
Step 4:To leave car, patient reverses the process.

Step 1: The valve on front of upright is closed to allow lift to be raised and opened slowly to lower patient. After checking that valve is closed, aide "pumps" handle to raise lift.
Step 2: The sling on which patient rests is then attached to spreader bar on lift by chains, with length of chain adjusted to patient's height. A short segment of chain then attached to upper part of sling, and a longer segment of chain is attached to lower part of sling to suspend patient in a sitting position.
Step 3:The hooks are then attached to sling from inside to outside. By doing this, patient is less likely to be injured by the hook.
Step 4:The sling is then positioned so that seams are away from patient. This is done to avoid pressure areas. Slings are made of a variety of fabrics, may either be one piece or two pieces. When patient is in bed, sling is placed under him/her by rolling him or her to one side, positioning sling, then rolling him/her to other side. Sling may be left under patient when he/she is in wheelchair; therefore, it is extremely important to avoid pressure from the seams.
Step 5:Once patient has been positioned on sling, lift is moved into position so that spreader bar is across patient. Both ends of each chain are then attached to their respective sides of sling. The valve should be closed and patient raised slowly. Care should be taken to ensure that a safe sitting position is achieved as patient is raised.
Step 6: Patient then moved into position over seat of locked wheelchair.
Step 7:The valve is opened slowly to lower patient into wheelchair.
Step 8:To properly seat patient in wheelchair, you will apply slight pressure in horizontal plane at patient's knees and thighs. This pushes patient into seat completely, with his/her back resting firmly against back of wheelchair.
Step 9:Once patient has been seated in wheelchair, valve is closed to avoid striking patient should the lift arm continue to lower. Chains are then removed from sling. Transfer is completed by moving lift away from wheelchair and placing patient's feet properly onto footrests.

-For patients spending either a prolonged time in hospital or whose disability may be chronic, long lasting, certain daily tasks, such as bathing, must be addressed.
-For patient who is confined to a wheelchair, standing transfer from a wheelchair to a bathtub may be a bit more difficult than some of the other standing transfers already discussed.
-This patient will need good balance and sure footing; therefore, the person who may be able to perform a standing transfer from a wheelchair to a bed may not be able to use this type of transfer.
-If the patient is unable to perform this transfer, the use of a sliding board may help to diminish the risk of falling.
-The major difference with this type of transfer, unlike other transfers, it is generally made toward weaker side.
-The reason for this is that it seems to be much easier for patient to get into bathtub than to get out of it.
-Therefore, when the patient returns from bathtub to wheelchair, he or she can move with his/her better side first.

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