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Safe Patient Transfer: Bed to Wheelchair Using a Gait Belt | Nursing Skills

The Nurse Educator

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[0:07]I don't expect bodily fluids, so I don't have to wear gloves but I'm going to wear one.
[0:07]I'm just putting this gate belt around you just for your protection to keep you from falling and help you in the event we need this.
[0:07]Okay, you can either to push up against the bed if you're comfortable or if you want to, you can use my shoulders, okay?
[0:07]And on the count of three we're going to rock three times and we're going to pivot you to this chair.
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[0:00]Okay, I've done my intro, my assessment and everything like that and hygiene.

[0:07]I don't expect bodily fluids, so I don't have to wear gloves but I'm going to wear one. Put this over the patient. I am letting the patient know what I'm doing. I'm just putting this gate belt around you just for your protection to keep you from falling and help you in the event we need this. Okay, make sure it's not too tight and then I simply slide this into the hole. Is that comfortable? Okay, you can either to push up against the bed if you're comfortable or if you want to, you can use my shoulders, okay? But she's going to leave her hands on the, on the bed for support. And on the count of three we're going to rock three times and we're going to pivot you to this chair. It's very important that you have the chair at an angle, most likely at a 45 degree angle like so. And that the chair is locked.

[1:11]Okay, it's locked, okay? Now that the chair is locked, it is at a 45 degree angle. All right, so I'm going to do so. All right, are you ready? Any dizziness, any discomfort? You good? You Gucci or fairagamo, let me stop. All right, let's go. We're going to rock, come to the edge of the bed. Now, you see how her knees is, sometimes you it's necessary to actually um lift the bed up. How much time we have left? So she's comfortable getting up. All right. And even with the taller patient, you might have to lift the bed up a little higher just so that they're comfortable to have their feet flat on the floor. That makes sense. Are you comfortable? Okay, we're going to rock one and remember I'm not using my back. One, two, three, get up and pivot. All right, pull the, the rails, good. And she's in her chair. Okay, I do not leave her. Don't show off yet. And she's good, are you comfortable? And I do another assessment, any dizziness, discomfort. All right, Tech, wheel her away.

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