Not a current situation but was reflecting on what happened in the past and just want to know if this is normal protocol. Basically we got told to move our family member in bed to prevent pressure sores just before they died. They couldn't really move themselves at all by that point. We agreed but not even thinking how hard it'd actually be when we came to do it. We never got any training in how best to do this (assuming there is a proper way to do it though I don't know) or anything at all just "move them every 4 hours" and it just kind of sounded easy and we didn't question it.
It was really hard and our family member was in a lot of pain whilst we tried to turn them over. We did manage it but I'm kind of traumatised over causing them pain every time. Just wondering if this was a situation we should've been put in? For reference it was just me and my mum (I have brothers but they weren't around the whole time to help) is this just something you get stuck in and do or are family not really supposed to be put in this situation? We have no nursing experience at all. Thank you.