Day 4

What is the term used when talking about looking after the person and their needs as a whole?

• Practical care?

• Person centered care?

• Whole care?

• Total care?

Before carrying out a personal care task what must you first do?

• Wash your hands?

• Gain consent?

• Get everything you need ready?

• Tell them you are going to wash them?

What should you be doing for a person?

• Any task they tell you to do?

• What they cannot do for themselves?

• tasks that take them a long time to do?

• whatever you think is necessary?

What should you be looking for when showering a patient?

• Areas that need shaving?

• Areas that are particularly dirty?

• Mobility?

• Broken skin/ red areas

Bleeding or swollen gums is an indication of what?

• The person needs dentures?

• Sinus infection?

• The person is not getting enough fluids?

• Gum disease?

When brushing a patients dentures over the sink what is it important to do?

• Fill it with warm water?

• Fill it with cold water?

• Fill it with hot water?

• Put something soft at the bottom?

Nerve damage caused by high blood sugars is called...?

• Retinopathy?

• Nephropathy?

• Diabetic neuropathy?

• Pathology?

As a HCSW can we cut a patients toenails?

• Yes, of course we can?

• No! If they need cutting it must be done by a podiatrist?

• yes, we can cut them but it must be reported to a registered nurse first?

• Yes, but only with consent from the patient?

In relation to foot care what is said to be one of the main causes of falls?

• Nail polish that has been left on too long?

• Ill fitting footwear?

• Blisters?

• Athletes foot?

The gold standard framework aims to improve palliative care by...?

• providing high quality continuing care?

• Ensuring people work as a team to support the patients needs?

• A & B

• Work alone to make the care more person cnetred?