Certified Ergonomic Awareness for Nursing Homes & Healthcare Specialist (CEANHS)

Course Description

This course covers the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ergonomic guidelines for safe patient handling and methods to protect workers in healthcare settings. Using OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes as a foundation for any healthcare facility, the course emphasizes analyzing and identifying ergonomic hazards and implementing practical solutions to address these issues.

Learning Outcomes

• Developing an ergonomic process.
• Risk factors in patient care handling and transfers.
• Identifying work processes with the potential for musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses.
• Protocol for resident and patient assessment.
• Implementing solutions, including work practices and engineering controls.
• Apply OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes in their healthcare facility.
• Understand the benefits of implementing an ergonomics process.
• Identify ergonomic problem jobs in healthcare.
• Analyze and develop solutions for ergonomic problem jobs in healthcare.

Requirements

• none