Sleep Tight – Selecting the Most Suitable Bed
Workshop Duration: 2 hours
Cost: $120.00
Are you unsure how to navigate bed features, risks and clinical considerations when recommending a sleeping system?
Do you worry about selecting equipment that supports mobility, reduces risk and meets individual needs?
This workshop builds your confidence to assess hazards, match features to function and justify safe, tailored bed prescriptions grounded in clear clinical reasoning.
Purchase this workshopWhat will you learn?
- How to assess person factors including medical history cognition behaviours mobility and sleep patterns
- Analyse activity needs such as transfers positioning and shared sleeping
- Evaluate environmental factors including space access culture and social context
- Compare bed sizes features and adjustability to match functional need
- Identify risks including falls entrapment impalement asphyxiation and restrictive practices
- Explore alternatives to rails and sticks and when to prescribe specialised beds
- Select mattresses that support movement comfort and clinical goals
- Apply structured reasoning to justify bed choice and guide implementation
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for Occupational Therapists who:
- Prescribe beds and mattresses for mobility, positioning, safety or pressure care
- Support participants with complex medical, cognitive or behavioural needs
- Complete AT assessments where sleep safety or bed modifications are required
- Work in home, community, hospital or residential settings requiring detailed risk assessment
- Want to strengthen their reasoning in aligning functional need with bed features and risk mitigation
Why attend?
In this workshop, you will:
- Build confidence in identifying risks and choosing the most suitable bed for diverse needs
- Strengthen your assessment skills using practical tools, frameworks and real examples
- Learn how to justify decisions, communicate risks and guide safe implementation
- Gain clarity on restrictive practices, safety requirements and documentation expectations
- Access templates, clinical considerations and resources to streamline practice
What's included?
- Gain online access to the workshop – live workshops are delivered via Zoom, while self-paced options include access to recorded sessions
- Download workshop slides and any resources provided by the presenter
- Enjoy six months of access to the recording and resources via your Verve OT Learning Library
- Receive a certificate of completion for your CPD records, available via email upon completion of the workshop
Risk Rating and Priority Scoring Form
Strengthen your clinical reasoning using a structured risk matrix that guides you to assess consequence and probability of harm. Gain a clear method to prioritise identified risks and support transparent, defensible equipment recommendations.
Safe Use of Bed Rails
Gain clarity on when bed rails are considered restraint and when they are not through a structured decision matrix and risk minimisation framework. Strengthen your ability to justify rail prescription, document alternatives and implement appropriate monitoring aligned with least restrictive practice principles.
Guide to Assessing Entrapment Risk
Develop confidence in identifying low, medium, high and extreme entrapment risk using a tiered framework based on person attributes. Strengthen your justification when determining whether rails or bed sticks are appropriate and when entrapment zone measurement is required.
Bed Sticks Clinical Considerations for Prescribers
Gain practical prescribing guidance specific to bed sticks, including contraindications, installation considerations and review triggers. Strengthen your ability to reduce impalement and entrapment risk while clearly documenting your clinical reasoning.
Bed Mattress and Bed Equipment Assessment Form
Streamline your bed and mattress assessment using a comprehensive template that prompts review of medical history, pressure risk, cognition, behaviours, environment and transfers. Strengthen consistency in your documentation and ensure your recommendations are grounded in structured clinical reasoning.
Included with your workshop in your Verve OT Learning Library
About the Presenter
Peta Hardy is an experienced presenter with 30 years’ experience working as an OT in the disability sector. She is founding director of Coast Rehab and combines clinical knowledge and experience with best practice guidelines to provide an informative and practical session including plenty of useful resources.
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Quick add to cartWhat Are Others Saying?
"Great overall, thank you! Well-structured, lots of examples / practical applications / case studies. Key takeaway was probably much more thorough risk assessments."
Charisse A, Occupational Therapist
"I really appreciated the details outlining the clinical assessment of the 'person' in relation to beds and how they relate to valued 'bed' occupations."
Melissa Y, Occupational Therapist
