Turning with multiple carers
Turning with multiple carers
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Two carers may be required because of the client’s size and condition. Bed linen or a repositioning sheet may be used if the client is too large to reach their hips and shoulder. Keep your movements slow and smooth to reassure the client. Where three carers are required, the second carer stands beside the first, placing their hands farther past the shoulder and hip with their left arm crossing over or under the first carer’s right arm
Turning with two carers
1. Client flexes outside knee
2. Carer in lunge position and gives oral prompts – ‘ready, steady, roll‘
3. Carer rolls client
4. Client rolled awaiting pillows
5. Second carer places pillows
6. Pillows applied and maximising comfort and pressure relief
Turning with three carers
1. Client flexes outside knee
2. Carers use sheet to roll client
3. Carers roll client
4. Roll completed
5. Third carer places pillows
6. Client stabilised with pillows, bed railings raised
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