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NHS Training for Physiotherapy Support Workers Workbook 15 | Transfers Evidence When you are ready, your supervising therapist will supervise you teaching a patient to transfer. Depending on where you work this may be a neurological patient or an amputee. Describe the transfers practiced on your unit. What difficulties do the patients have? What precautions must you take? Remember You must inform your supervising therapist if there is a change in the condition of the patient that requires reassessment. Workbook 15 Page 10
NHS Training for Physiotherapy Support Workers Workbook 15 | Transfers 15.7 Teaching a patient to manoeuvre a wheelchair Patients need to practise using and manoeuvring with the wheelchair. You may be given the task of supervising their practice. Activity Find a wheelchair to practise with. Have a go at: ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ moving the chair backwards and forwards going through doorways getting close to a bed as if you were about to transfer onto it going through an obstacle course Once you feel confident doing this, your supervising therapist will supervise you helping to teach a patient to perform these manoeuvres. Acknowledgements NHS Tayside Workbook 15 Page 11
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