Course
Name: Patient Positioning and Ambulation at Home

Course Code: HC20HHA009V0

Course
Duration: 20 Hrs

Course Description:

Course Overview:

Understand
the mobility and its benefits

• Assist
  patients with ambulation activity

• Identify
  various types of positioning of a patient in a bed

• Assist
  patients with re-positioning them in a bed

• Understand
  the patient transfer processes

• Describe
  the various means of patient transfer

• Assist
  patients with various transfer procedures, including to and from ambulance, bed,
  stretcher and wheelchair

• Maintain
  safety and comfort of the patients as well as own safety during a transfer
  procedure

Course
Structure:

Unit1: Mobility and Positioning of the Patients

• Lesson 1: Understanding Mobility for Patient Wellbeing

• Lesson 2: Assisting a Patient with Ambulation Procedure

• Lesson
  3: Assisting a Patient with Positioning in a Bed

• Lesson
  4: Prevention of Bed Sores

Unit2: Transferring the Patients

• Lesson 1: Safety Measures While Transferring a Patient

• Lesson 2: Transferring a Patient from an Ambulance to Home

• Lesson
  3: Transferring a Patient from a Stretcher to a Bed or Vice Versa

• Lesson
  4: Transferring a Patient from a Wheelchair to a Bed or Vice Versa

Pre-requisite: Class 10^th Pass

Training Method: Instruction
based.

Course Validity: 90 days from
the date of enrolment.

Downloadable Exercises: NA

Recommended Practice Hours: NA