Nursing homes and hospitals are both known to use patient lifts to transfer certain patients around. Not only does help to save time, but it will prevent injuries from occurring to the patient or the medical professional staff.
First, you will need to make sure that the patient is secured. If you will be transporting a patient that is in a wheelchair, you will need to ensure that the wheelchair is locked. Then if you're working with a patient that is in a bed, you will have to put up the rails to keep them from falling off. Make sure that the rails are locked.
Next, you will need to place the patient lift underneath the individual, with the help of assisting staff. If they are in a wheelchair, you will have to first have the patient sit on the lift strap. Then you will pull the flaps on either side of the individual. Then pull the straps between their legs. The lift strap should be sitting up to enable you to connect it to the lift.
Now, you will need to move the lift closer to the patient. For patients that are wheelchair bound, you will have the spread the legs on the lift, so that it can encompass the wheelchair. Then put the patient lift machine right in front of the patient, so that you can put in the wheelchair and lock the lift, so that it won't move.
