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2-DAY HOIST WORKSHOP:
Full lifting hoists, standing hoists and weight-bearing transfers
Course Outline
This 2-day workshop provides therapists with a system for prescribing a full lifting mobile hoist system including hoists, spreader bars and slings in the home environment. Using the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model as a framework, the workshop facilitates therapists to examine manual handling problems from a social perspective as well as from a physical standpoint.
The workshop presents a fresh look at risk assessment, equipping therapist with skills in creative problem solving, ensuring efficient as well as safe transfer processes. Therapists are facilitated in determining when a hoist is justified as well as what hoist to use in a specific environment. It also explores the negotiation skills in hoist prescription supporting an amicable and efficient intervention process between caregiver and receiver. Contemporary manual handling skills and latest evidence related to hoisting are presented to equip therapists with the skills to complete a comprehensive manual handling assessment and document their justification.
Learning Objectives
By the end of his workshop participants will be able to:
-Utilise risk assessment to justify when and why a full lifting hoist is needed
-Identify how to trial full lifting, standing hoists and specific alternative transfers
-Identify the dimensions of hoists and their clinical significance
-Prescribe a hoist, spreader bar and sling in a systematic manner
-Demonstrate manual handling skills for hoists and weight bearing transfers
-Demonstrate the creative use of equipment used in the manual handling
Presenter Background
Aideen Gallagher is an occupational therapist with specialist knowledge in the areas of health and safety and ergonomics for over ten years. She worked as a manual-handling advisor for over three years while undertaking a Masters in Occupational Health and Safety. Stemming from this, she developed training workshops in manual handling and systematic hoist prescription for health professionals in 2007, which have since been delivered in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Aideen is considered an expert in her field and has been recognized for her skills in teaching, has presented her work at international conferences and has published her research in peer reviewed academic journals. Aideen runs a company Risk Managed specializing in assessment, education and training in risk management and manual handling.