Movementor Overview
Movementor is a cloud-based service that provides functionality and features for the creation of a Handling Plan Record that supports the development of a handling plan for a patient. It is specifically focused on those moving and handling situations that present complexity and therefore require more novel solutions than usually expected.
Complexity refers to how complicated or intricate something is, often involving many interconnected parts or factors. In everyday life, complex things might be difficult to understand, predict, or manage because of the number of elements involved or the way they interact. For example, a car engine or an ecosystem can be considered complex because of the numerous components working together in specific ways to achieve a result.
The process of moving and handling a patient from their bed to a wheelchair may be complex because it involves multiple steps, careful coordination, and attention to various factors. For instance, the healthcare worker must assess the patient's physical condition, consider their weight, mobility, environment and choose the safest technique for moving or supporting them. Equipment such as a hoist or stand aid might be needed, and proper positioning is essential to avoid injury to both the patient and caregiver. Each of these elements must work together smoothly, and any mistake or misjudgment can lead to complications, making the process intricate and challenging to manage.
Movementor provides a structured approach to addressing these kinds of complexities to help an assessment team provide the best handling plan they can given the circumstances. The structure that Movementor follows is Discover, Explore, Implement, Reflect. It provides a space where the assessment team can discuss the situation they are addressing, the level of risk the handling task represents, and even the possible solutions to specific problems. At the heart of Movementor is collaboration between a team of people invested in a successful handling plan.
Movementor treats this as a design problem and takes a ‘design thinking’ approach to its structure. Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that focuses on understanding users' needs, brainstorming creative solutions, and iterating based on feedback. It emphasizes empathy, collaboration, and experimentation to develop innovative ideas. The process typically involves stages like empathising with users, defining the problem, ideating solutions, prototyping, and implementing. By encouraging a user-centered perspective, design thinking aims to create practical and effective solutions that address real-world challenges.
Discover
In the discover phase, the assessment team seeks to draw together key data and capture it in a meaningful manner for the handling task being assessed. This covers components such as a Situation Statement that is a summary of a number of features of the current circumstances.
It also covers creating a set of Goals for the handling task (both assessor goals and patient goals), and performing a Risk Judgement of various factors against the handling task.
Explore
In the Explore phase, the assessment team turns to consider what may constitute a good handling plan. They begin by examining the possibilities offered by a variety of potential approaches far 4 categories of challenges. These categories comprise of the Physical aspects of the problem, the Psychological, the Social/Cultural and the Legal/Regulatory/Procedural.
Having considered all of these solutions they can then move on to modelling aspects of the handling plan based on these categories to get a feel of what a good handling plan would look like. Here the team move from the abstract possibilities revealed to how they would work in a concrete manner.
Implements
In the Implement phase, the assessment team now takes the modelling they have produced and turn it into a handling plan detailing each step in the process. Whilst generating the handling plan they can create implementation tasks that will help the team see what must be done to turn the plan into reality.
Once the handling plan has been created there are a number of reports that can be exported from the plan itself, the implementation tasks, to a larger report detailing the line of clinical reasoning at each stage of the assessment process.
Reflect
Once a handling plan has been created and is in use it must be reviewed periodically. Movementor provides a space in which a review can take place so they can reflect on how well the handling plan is working. The team can access all of the previous clinical discussions and reasoning to better assess how things may have changed and then give a recommendation. Either continue with the current handling plan or reassess.