Library Guides: Professional Practice Skills: Patient Positioning & Transfer

Positioning & Transfers

Positioning Techniques (Video Duration: 12 minutes)
This video demonstrates the skills to position those who are bedridden using assistive devices and following the principles of good body mechanic, side-lying and prone.
Transferring From a Bed to a Stretcher (Video Duration 3 minutes)
This program teaches how to transfer a patient from a bed to a stretcher.
Transferring From a Bed to a Wheelchair Using a Transfer Belt (Video Duration 5 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to transfer a patient from a bed to a wheelchair using a transfer belt.
Assisting With Positioning a Patient in Bed (Video Duration 8 minutes)
This video shows how to help position a patient in bed.
Mosby's Nursing Skills: Transferring and Positioning Patients (Five video series, total duration 33 minutes)
This is a Playlist of five short videos. Demonstrating the following; how to move a patient in a bed, how to position patients in bed, how to use a transfer belt to transfer a patient from a bed to a wheelchair, how to transfer a patient from a bed to a stretcher, how to use a hydraulic lift
Transfer and Ambulation Skills (Video Duration 16 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to pivot transfer from bed to wheelchair and back, pivot transfer from wheelchair to toilet and back, two-person lift from bed to wheelchair, transfer using a mechanical lift, assisting with ambulation, preventing injury during a fall.

Patient Safety

Change of Shift: Hand-off: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration: 8 minutes)
This videos covers how to hand-off patients to incoming staff at a shift change.
Ensuring Oxygen Safety: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 2 minutes)
This video clip covers how to ensure safety during use of oxygen.
National Patient Safety Goals 2020 (Video Duration: 29 minutes)
This video provides an overview of the Joint Commission's seven National Patient Safety Goals 2020. It covers improving patient identification and communication, safe use of medicine and alarms, prevention of infection, identification of patient safety risks, and prevention of mistakes in surgery.
The applied phlebotomy video series. Part I, Basic venipuncture (Video Duration: 43 minutes)
Detailed demonstrations include performing venipunctures using tube holders, syringes and winged blood collection sets. Emphasis is placed on needlestick safety, proper patient identification, preventing patient injury, and obtaining specimens free from errors that can alter results.