Decrease Staff Back Pain by Utilizing Expandable Low Beds
Long-term care (LTC) facilities face many challenges to providing ongoing high-quality care while maintaining an economically efficient operation. A major contributor to these challenges is workplace injuries to staff.1
Back pain is one of the most common injuries to LTC staff, but incidence of back pain can be greatly reduced by utilizing the right beds throughout your facility as part of a safe lifting program.
Whether your staff is performing rehabilitation exercises, performing a transfer or pushing a resident bed down the hallway, if the bed cannot be positioned at the proper height to suit the caregiver and the activity, issues can arise.
Utilizing a bed with a significant travel range can greatly increase your facility’s capabilities and reduce the risk of back injuries. Promoting to your nursing team that your facility has full-electric expandable low beds throughout the facility may reduce nursing staff turnovers. In addition, it will promote and exemplify your no lift policy throughout the community. Additionally, residents will also find solace in knowing that they are being safely and comfortable transferred into and out of bed.
Let us show you how to decrease staff back pain by utilizing expandable low beds from Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare.
1 http://www.managedhealthcareconnect.com/article/creating-safer-environments-long-term-care-staff-and-residents
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