Types of Transfers
Transfer where a patient is able to stand with the help of one or two nursing assistants
What is a standing transfer?
Full weight bearing
What is FWB?
A transfer belt that is an assistive and safety device used to help ambulate and transfer a patient.
What is a gait belt?
Once patient is transferred to wheelchair, what should you check? (Rule)
Inability to move of any extremity
What is paralysis?
A transfer where the patient sits throughout the transfer
What is a sitting (lateral) transfer?
Non weight Bearing
What is NWB?
Device designed to help patients who lack the specific strength or muscle control to rise to a standing position and quickly transferring a resident between two seated surfaces, eliminating two or three manual transfers when toileting or showering a resident, while also greatly minimizing caregiver back and shoulder injuries.
What is a sit to stand?
What is backing into door and elevators?
A small fabric or plastic sling with handles used to support patients during transfers and positionings.
What is a manual handling sling?
A plastic or wooden board about two feet long that has a slippery surface. (Used in sitting transfers)
What is a sliding board?
Partial Weight Bearing
What is PWB?
Abdominal, back, or rib injuries
Pregnancy
Abdominal pacemaker
Advanced heart or lung disease
What are contraindications of using a gait belt?
Should check to make sure it is in front and not under?
What is men's scrotums?
Weakness of an extremity
What is paresis?
A device used for vertical movement. Used to transfer heavy or dependent patients.
What is a mechanical lift?
What is WBAT?
What is a hoyer lift?
Helps prevent pressure ulcers when in wheelchair
What are wheelchair push-ups?
What is gait?
Nurse or physical therapist
Who decides the transfer status of a patient?
The ability to stand on one or both legs
What is weight bearing?
Have roughly three fingers of space
Always apply over clothing
Buckle must be in front
What is the proper application of a gait belt?
In a parallel position
On patient's strongest side
How is the wheelchair put next to patients' bed?
Round disks that turn allowing you to pivot a patient (for seated or standing transfers)
What is a swivel disk?