Electric Scooters Education and Training

Learn about electric scooters to ensure their safe usage in your health care facility

Electric scooters are a relatively new home health care implement that helps individuals retain their mobility. Health care providers working in nursing homes and hospitals need to learn how to use and prescribe medical electric scooters properly. A thorough education about these power scooters will benefit nurses, occupational therapists and home care aides.

Electric scooter distributors and nursing aides with clients or customers that utilize electric scooters should be educated about proper use, maintenance, and safety. Electric scooters education and training should include the following:

1. Training concerning the correct and safe way to use an electrical scooter.

2. Learning how to assemble and troubleshoot electric scooters.

3. An education in when and how to prescribe/recommend an electric scooter.

 

Learn how to use an electric scooter properly in a medical environment

Nurses and health care professionals should be trained in the safe use of the scooter. Nurses should be able to educate patients and make sure they use the equipment safely, and home care aides and occupational therapists should be educated to teach people buying electric scooters for sale to use them properly at home.
Try: Pride Mobility offers downloadable versions of electric scooter manuals made by the top names in the health care equipment industry. Health care providers should educate themselves about the basic use and operation of electric scooters. Drive Medical also provides online user's manuals that are great educational tools for learning how to operate power chairs. Go to TheMedSupplyGuide  for a crash course in electric scooter identification and selection.

Get training in how to assemble and troubleshoot electric motorized scooters

Most electric motor scooters can be at least partially disassembled for travel and storage; nurses and home care aides should learn how to assemble and disassemble electric scooters. Health care professionals should also be educated in methods of troubleshooting problems with electric mobility scooters.
Try: Nurses can learn lifting techniques, assembly and disassembly processes, and troubleshooting techniques for electric handicap scooters with this group of instructional videos from Scootaround. Pride Mobility also provides downloadable instructional videos for learning, troubleshooting and maintenance for an electric scooter. Download instruction manuals for all Rascal scooter models from the company's website.

Identify the process for prescribing electric scooters

Doctors and certified nurses often prescribe medical electric scooters for mobility or disability conditions in patients. It's important that nurses and therapists learn when and how to prescribe an electric scooter for their patients.
Try: The Scooter Store provides an instructional video to teach doctors and therapists what diagnoses are appropriate to prescribe an electric scooter. The site also provides downloadable forms to teach you the prescribing process. The Physicians Resource Center from Pride Mobility will teach doctors the examination criteria, coverage requirements and documentation process for prescribing electrical scooters.  Visit the Physician Resources section of Hoveround's website to learn all aspects of prescribing a Hoveround mobility product.

 

• Remind patients and clients about safety accessories like extra lights and reflective flags that can make their scooter safer to drive.

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