Safe patient handling: Challenging behaviour

Safe patient handlingChallenging behaviour

Håkan Skenhede

Ethics• All solutions should be with minimum force

and minimum violence!

• All solutions must be able to integrate in your patient handling.

Three different patients• Positive active

• Passive

• Negative active

Why aggresive?• Scared?• Pain?• Disorientated?• Medical reason?

Pain• A good grip has to have contact with the

inside of the hand.

Exercise

Force creates an opposite force• The more force you apply the more force is

likely to come back to you.

Exercise

Balance• If you put the patient in an unbalanced

position they will increase force/muscle activity

Exercise

Natural pattern• Since we were young we have been following

the natural pattern. If you dont follow that when you move the patient they will not help you. Maybe they will even resist or fight back.

Exercises: sitting down, walking,