All Hands on Deck: A Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Pilot Program Between Therapy and Nursing Staff

Presenter(s): Morgan Stasell, OTD, OTR/L; Maria Jaramillo, MS, OTR/L, CLT-LANA; Chris Ochoa, PT, DPT; Maria Seymour, MS, OTR/L; Stephanie Wilson, OTR/L, CSPHP

Content Areas: Specialties; Physical Disabilities

Target Audience: Intermediate-level

Course Description: Safe patient handling and mobility programs (SPHM) decrease staff injury, reduce hospital acquired conditions, and increase early mobilization.  A sustainable SPHM program is multi-faceted, but needs to include unit based experts to answer the questions of staff in real time.  Therapy practitioner SPHM experts implemented the 2nd set of hands program to educate unit-based hospital staff how to effectively use SPHM equipment.