CareMoves™

While the principles of implementing a safe patient handling (SPH) program are
constant, the environment in which the clinical care is delivered can present with significantly different needs. With this in mind, Visioning HealthCare has developed the CareMoves™ Safe Patient Handling program.

Designed by a Registered Nurse who has seventeen years experience in caring for seniors in a variety of settings, the CareMoves™ SPH program focuses on the particular needs of:

• Long Term Care
• Assisted Living
• Home Health Care
• Hospice

CareMoves™ takes into account the particular challenges of these four clinical areas, which include:

• A higher ratio of unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Residents that have a reduced activity level as the day progresses or who may experience the sundowner effect.
• The need to maintain the ‘at home’ feel of the environment.
• Home health care workers who mainly work on their own.
• The difficulties in obtaining funding for lifting equipment for clients being cared for at home.
• The specific lifting and moving tasks common to each clinical area.

With it now recognized that there is no safe way to lift a resident/client, implementing the CareMoves™ SPH program can minimize the risk of back and musculoskeletal injury to your caregivers, improve resident/client safety and ensure financial savings for the organization.

The CareMoves™ program includes:

• All the tools necessary for the implementation of a safe patient handling program.
• Guidance on how to maximize your return on investment.
• Setting up your SPH committee, its roles, responsibilities and lines of accountability.
• Strategies to maximize the success of the program and make it sustainable.
• Facility and unit risk analysis using our unique Caregivers Risk Assessment Tool.
• Guidance on selecting the type of equipment that best suits your client group, reflects your available budget, and that takes into account factors such as the required portability of the equipment.
• Barriers to change and how to overcome them.
• Variety of training options for implementation, competency assessment, orientation and annual updates.
• Recognition and solutions to the cultural challenges in non-acute care.
• Easy to use resident/client SPH assessment tool.
• Evaluation tools based upon key quality indicators that will help you to meet your accreditation standards.
• SPH and bariatric patients/clients.

Why choose Visioning HealthCare?

• Our safe patient handling consultants and educators have experience in all the areas we implement our program.
• We offer unbiased advice regarding the type of equipment that will best suit your needs and budget.
• CareMoves™ has been developed to be relevant and have immediate benefits to the clinical staff it impacts.
• Our program can work within your existing structures and utilize your existing SPH equipment.
• We can work with your facility to customize the CareMoves™ program.
• With practicing clinicians on our team we understand the real world of healthcare and the challenges that this change presents.
• We offer ongoing support to your facility SPH lead by phone, email or in person.