Live Webinar – Hey, what’s in that suitcase? Innovative Frontline Simulation for Bariatric Floor Rescue and Lessons Learned.

Presented live June 15th, 2022 2 pm – 3 pm Eastern Overview This webinar will be packed full of ideas on how to bring forth meaningful activities to promote empathy while caring for patients of size. We will share how we utilized a bariatric simulation suit to look at space considerations with Medivac, staff education […]

Live Webinar – Fabulous Friction: Creative Ways to Use Friction Reducing Sheets to Promote Neuroplastic Principles

Presented live June 8th, 2022 2 pm – 3 pm Eastern Overview This fun, dynamic presentations will provide some creative ways to use Friction Reducing Sheets to help improve mobility across the spectrum of recovery. Jamie provides a quick overview of Friction and it’s role in movement, both as a friend and a foe. She […]

National Event Exhibit & Sponsor Opportunities

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Teresa Boynton-NBCOT Award

Feb 2021 National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) Announces Recipients for the First-Ever Innovation Award Congratulations to Teresa Boynton, recipient of the NBCOT Innovation Award! NBCOT launched the Innovation and Impact Awards in 2020 to publicly recognize the exceptional work Registered Occupational Therapist (OTR) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) certificants do in […]

2023 ASPHP National SPHM Education Event

ASPHP SPHM Advocacy Award

ASPHP  SPHM Advocacy Award The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who has demonstrated efforts and/or results to promote universal safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM). Someone who has  made a meaningful impact in a short time through dedicated service and results, or one who has striven diligently for years to make […]

ASPHP, Who do you mask for?

The ASPHP Board of Directors are partnering to help flatten the curve. Here are a few our our reasons as to why and who we masks for. Share your picture and reason on any one of our Social Media sites…FB, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Visit ASPHP.ORG for excellent COVID-19 resources and information.

Archived Webinar: SPHM in the COVID – 19 Pandemic -2

Recorded May 28th, 2020 Overview This webinar addresses organizational and clinical SPHM implications in the current COVID – 19 global pandemic. A panel of experts will discuss specific ways to perform patient handling tasks such as pronation and other handling activities, mobility and infectious patient, and communication strategies necessary to keep workers and patients/residents safe […]

ASPHP Well Represented on ANA SPH Working Group!

The American Nurses Association (ANA) has started a Safe Patient Handling (SPH) Working Group for the purpose of developing multidisciplinary national SPH standards.  On June 29th they brought together representatives from 8 professional associations, 2 from large healthcare systems, 2 from insurance companies, the Veterans Health Administration (VA), consultants, equipment/services providers and others for a […]

ASPHP Featured in Joint Commission Environment of Care July Publication

The July issue of the Environment of Care® News contains “Lifted Up,” an article on Safe Patient Handling which included excerpts from interviews with a few of our Certificants.  The  article is reprinted from Environment of Care® News, July 2012, Volume 15, Issue 7. Copyright 2012 Joint Commission on Accreditation of  Healthcare Organizations. Used with permission. No part of […]