Hi everyone – our Christchurch group discussed this topic tonight and the outcome was we were going to put it on the forum…looks like it is already there! We reviewed two guides (Australia and UK) and a detailed email from the Aussie forum on this topic. From our conversation some of our key thoughts were
– we like the idea of preparing for this i.e if person is likely to faint or medically unstable they should only be sat in a chair that goes flat and/or sides come away
– that we SHOULD be discussing this more and planning for it as staff likely to hurt themselves in emergency situation that they don’t plan for
– in Aged care (where a few of us work) it is likely (but shouldn’t be presumed) that person may be NFR so inappropriate to be doing heroic and dangerous manual handling anyway
We also reflected that we are surprised as a group that we aren’t asked about this more when we do training.
Would love to know of any NZ guidelines or follow up from the earlier discussions. Also agree it ties in really nicely with CPR> When I have done first aid courses in the past they never cover this.