This is a free webinar offered through the Client/Patient Handling Community of Practice (CoP), in partnership with CRE-MSD, PSHSA, and VHA Home HealthCare.
In this webinar
This webinar provides an overview of the updated decision aid tool, Transfer Equipment Resource: Considerations for Promoting Restorative Care and Optimal Client Function. A draft version of this resource was presented at the November 14, 2023 CoP webinar.
In current practice, two-person transfers are often high-risk, resource-intensive activities that can limit opportunities for client mobility and independence. This resource supports regulated practitioners/assessors in considering a diverse range of available equipment when selecting transfer approaches. Information about each option is presented with a restorative lens to help providers identify options which “achieve the required tasks as comfortably and safely as possible for the client and care provider while promoting client independence/rehabilitation.”
About the presenters
Sherri Bastos is the Director, Health, Safety and Wellbeing - Health and Community Care with the Public Service Health and Safety Association. She is a passionate and motivating health and safety professional, dedicating her 25 years of OH&S leadership experience to enhancing worker and public health, safety, injury prevention and wellbeing. Sherri’s career has focused on directing provincial and national OH&S teams on best in-class OH&S prevention and claims management programs in hospital, long-term care, retirement and home care; within both the private and non-profit sectors. She is proud of successfully achieving leading health and safety strategic goals by focusing and valuing team collaboration, actively listening, fostering strong networking and partnerships, and contributing to innovative prevention ideas and programs. Sherri enjoys an active lifestyle with her husband and two children, enjoying their various sporting events and outdoor activities.
Dr. Catherine Brookman is the Associate Director of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for CRE-MSD and the lead of their Client/Patient Handling Community of Practice. Catherine is a gerontologist specializing in the health and safety of older adults. She is a dynamic authority on Ontario’s Personal Support Worker (PSW) occupation. She has extensive expertise in gerontology, health and safety and accreditation, specializing in research and the development and evaluation of programs and services for older adults. Catherine holds Doctorate, Masters, and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Emily King is the Director of Research at VHA Home HealthCare, where she leads a research team focused on creating evidence to inform better care for home care clients, create safer teams of care providers, and build toward a more connected health system. An experienced home care researcher with backgrounds in mechanical and biomedical engineering, her current research foci include pursuing opportunities to improve safety and quality of work-life for home and community care providers, promoting mobility and independence for seniors living at home, and increasing the accessibility of the built environment. She holds multiple patents and has contributed to the development of assistive technologies for toileting, mobility and safe patient lifting. Emily’s academic preparation includes a Master’s and PhD from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She currently holds Assistant Professor status in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, a visiting scientist appointment at KITE-UHN, and adjunct assistant professor status in the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences.
Resources
For assistance, please contact Betina Butler at bbutler@uwaterloo.ca.
Disclaimer: CRE-MSD receives funding through a grant provided by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development. The views expressed are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre nor of the Province of Ontario.