Kinesthetics
There are many different situations where nurses are busy moving patients. Movements are involved in positioning or mobilising patients and when helping with body care. Almost every nursing activity requires to move the body. In order to give dedicated support to these movements, requires nurses to know about professional methods and concepts helping them to understand and reproduce human movements.
Kinesthetics allows to analyse and support complex movements and the situations they occur in. The aim is to recognise, support and promote movements made by the patients themselves. Humans at the perioperative stage and disabled persons have a particularly strong tendency towards reducing their movements and mobility. Nurses will help these patients move by their own will and strength.
For more than fifteen years, the RKU's Care and Nursing Services have been practicing kinesthetic principles. We conceive of all nursing concepts as an ongoing process which is continuously implemented and developed further. This improves our care and nursing competence, backs up the process of care by acting professionally, and assures nursing quality throughout.
Each nursing team is therefore allocated care professionals as kinesthetic multiplication promoters. They have had professional kinesthetic training and closely cooperate with our kinesthetics trainer to be deeply involved in further developing the concept. Due to their high level of professional and social competence, the kinesthetics promoters are responsible for putting the concept into practice. All nurses, patients and relatives seek their advice in movement and mobility matters.
Kinesthetics looks ahead into the future. It frees nurses from just seeing a person's disease or disability and allows them to understand humans and their resources as a unified whole. Last but not least, it also helps nurses come to terms with their own movements.