January 8th, 2025 – ASPHP Webinar: The Gait Belt Debate

[FREE to Members] Presented and recorded live January 8th, 2025 from 2 PM – 3 PM Eastern

Overview

In this live, interactive webinar, we will discuss the case for- and limitations of – using gait belts as tools in your Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Toolbox. We will discuss background and current issues that continue to drive the debate, and will provide strategies and best practice recommendations for safe and appropriate use of this tool in the realm of safe patient handling and mobility across disciplines.

Objectives – After this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe two reasons why using gait belts is controversial.
• Identify the legal implications of not using gait belts.
• List 2 appropriate and 2 inappropriate uses of gait belts.
• List 2 alternative SPHM technologies for when gait belts are not appropriate

Meet the Speaker

Jeanne Margaret Arnold-Menjoulet, PT, CSPHP, CEO EarlyMobility.com
Margaret has over 30 years’ experience as a physical therapist and has been an international leader in integrating the fields of safe patient handling and early mobility for the past 15 years. She is a well-known expert both nationally and internationally and has published extensively on both topics. Margaret is a member of the ASPHP education committee and launched the curriculum task force, whose aim is to get SPHM content into all graduate schools of PT, OT, Nursing, Radiology and Medicine.

She is past board of director for ASPHP and editorial advisor on early mobility for the International Journal of Safe Patient
Handling and Mobility. Margaret is CEO of earlymobility.com, a consulting and education company and president and founder of Inspire Outcomes, under which she developed, patented and now sells and educates on a multi-use mobility harness. Driven by her faith and mission, Margaret’s greatest passion is taking the scientific evidence, and helping all those with solutions to bring to the table, to make a difference for those who are suffering and in pain, whether that be the patient or the nurse or therapist caring for them. Whether the solution is a best-practice clinical intervention, a new product or a new process to improve the care for the patient, Margaret believes by collaborating and working together, we can make the biggest difference.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15826, for 1 contact hour.

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