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WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF CEILING LIFT SYSTEMS?


Impact on Staff

  • Decreased physical demand on frontline staff
  • Decreased injury costs related to moving and assisting clients
  • Need for education and training time
  • Acceptance of learning curve and temporarily reduced skill levels
  • Requirement to change practice/alteration of care routines and habits
  • Increased morale and empowerment of frontline staff
  • Improved retention, recruitment and return-to-work stratgies
  • Requirement to follow safe work procedures and policy
  • Reduction of transfer choicesÜfrom preference to safety
  • Increased staff time for patient care

Impact on Patients Residents or Clients

  • Increased safety during transfers or repositioning
  • Decreased anxiety about being transferred
  • Increased comfort during care, fewer bruises or skin tears
  • Increased likelihood of change of position (bed/chair) during the day
  • Consistency of transfers and repositioning with different staff
  • Need to consider adaptive clothing if transferred in a sling
  • Reduction of choice to keep standing when assessed as unsafe
  • Increased safety for those without good insight into their abilities
  • Less energy expended on poor quality transfers and repositioning
  • Feel less of a burden to the staff
 

All of these impacts must be planned for as some of the negative impacts must be minimized, and the positive impacts need to be celebrated. Those impacts that can be seen as positive by some, but negative by others need to be brought out for open dialogue or they will slow the progress of change.