Location
Gravesham, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Description:
- Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.
- Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Support of patients in managing incontinence and promotion of continence.
- The recording of a patients fluid intake and output using fluid balance charts.
- Preparation and serving of patients meals, drinks and snacks. Assisting / feeding patients as necessary.
- The recording of patients dietary intake when indicated in the patients plan of care.
- Enable patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances.
- Assist in the prevention of pressure sore development as directed by the Registered nurse in conjunction with the patients plan of care
- Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patients manual handling plan.
- Obtaining specimens from patients forward or laboratory testing. Removal of cannula and catheters.
- Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care). It is paramount that patient safety in maintained at all times.
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