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fails BMAT level one, the caregiver will likely need a mechanical lift to help position the patient in bed, turn them every two hours, raise the patient in bed, perform catheter care, and complete dressing changes, to name just a few. To safely perform these activities, the nursing care team will need to select the lift resource designed or specified to support these activities.
Knowing how to assess for mobility deficits, and when to use mechanical lifts to advance patient mobility can now become a part of routine care, as caregivers protect patients while mobilizing earlier and often. BMAT was created by the team at Banner Health, who enhanced previously-developed tools from Hill-Rom. The BMAT was validated by the clinical team at Banner Health in the United States, and is currently being used by a growing number of healthcare providers and networks across U.S. and around the world.4
The use of mechanical lifts reduces potential for caregiver injury and can reduce the physical strain of lifting and moving a patient manually.3
References: 1 The Joint Commission (2012), Improving Patient and Worker Safety, p 72.
https://www.jointcommission.org/improving_patient_worker _safety/
2 Titsworth (2012) The effect of increased mobility on morbidity in the neuro intensive care unit. J Neurosurg 116:1379–1388, 2012.
3 American Nurse Association, 2013. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility, Interprofessional National Standards, p2.
www.Nursebooks.org/
4 Boynton (2014). Implementing a mobility assessment tool for nurses. Current Topics in Safe Patient Handling and Mobility, American Nurse Today Sept 2014 p13.
https://www.americannursetoday.com/special-reports/current- topics-in-sphm/
About Hill-Rom and the authors
Hill-Rom is a leading global medical technology company with more than 10,000 employees worldwide. We partner with health care providers in more than 100 countries, across all care settings, by focusing on patient care solutions that improve clinical and economic outcomes in five core areas: Advancing Mobility, Wound Care and Prevention, Patient Monitoring and Diagnostics, Surgical Safety and Efficiency and Respiratory Health. Hill-Rom’s people, products and programs work towards one mission: Every day, around the world, we enhance outcomes for patients and their caregivers. Visit
www.hill-rom.com for more information. Teresa Boynton is an Occupational Therapist and Certified
Safe Patient Handling Professional. Teresa is the original author of the BMAT and works as a SPHM consultant for Hill- Rom.
Dee Kumpar is a Registered Nurse and Certified Safe
Patient Handling Professional. Dee worked with the American Nurse Association to write the ANA SPHM Standards in 2013 and works as a SPHM consultant for Hill-Rom.
For more information please visit:
www.hill-rom.co.uk or call: +44 (0) 1530 411000 Hill-Rom Ltd, Clinitron House, Excelsior Road, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1JG
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