UnSubRocky wrote on May 23
rd, 2023 at 5:09pm:
Jasin wrote on May 23
rd, 2023 at 4:50pm:
I can see a lot of Nursing and Orderly Staff stuffing their backs trying to move that guy around in a hospital bed.
If they are stuffing their backs trying to move someone morbidly obese, they need to be retrained on how to move someone without putting a strain on their bodies.
Just a simple 'bed roll' with all manual handing techniques implemented still requires an element of back work.
Now WH&S/OH&S virtual signalling in the workplace to cover their legal arses will say as the last cop-out: Use adequate number of staff to implement - but its well known in many industries and businesses (using manual handling), that 'adequate number of staff' is not the case to be guaranteed.
So it will be a case of
"Sorry Mr Obesity - but we don't have the staff to roll you for your bedpan in bed" of which a catheter kinda helps the cause unless its a turd time.
You try just 'rolling' a big guy like that, where the 'flab' is like dead weight as it doesn't follow the body in more ways than one. Can you guarantee that there will be always four big guys around in the ward, in every ward containing such obese people - to be available at every time?
I understand the problems that contribute to obesity. I can forgive that. But for people who have worked in the Health Industry or are in the Health Industry and are morbidly obese - I have no time for, they should know better!