Understanding the client’s personal support requirements
Providing support to increase maximum participation
Addressing personal support requirements
Recognising and reporting changes in health and or support requirements
2. CONTENT
Understanding the client’s personal support requirements
Providing support to increase maximum participation
Addressing personal support requirements
Recognising and reporting changes in health and or support
requirements
4. PERSONAL CARE SUPPORT PLAN
A personal care support plan is developed individually
Each plan is tailored to the needs and the support required by the particular
client
The plan is developed through consultation with the client
The plan can be modified to accommodate the support need of the client
What should be included in a Care Plan
5. DAILY LIVING ACTIVITIES
Daily living activities are activities we do to keep ourselves and where
we live, clean safe and organised
Personal support requirements are tasks your client may need
assistance to complete
7. Elimination
Hydration, Nutrition and Feeding
Respiration
Skin Maintenance
MORE PERSONAL SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS
8. POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF PERSONAL CARE
Embarrassment
Fear
Disempowerment
Humiliation
Discomfort
9. RISKS WHEN PROVIDING PERSONAL CARE
What risks are associated with providing personal support to meet
personal care needs?
Risk is the chance that of something may go wrong and cause injury or
damage
Risks may be present to both the client and the provider of support
Precautions can be taken to avert, modify or prevent risks
10. AIDS AND EQUIPMENT
Using equipment, processes and aids
Technical and operational skills need to be practiced before using with
clients
Seeking appropriate support and guidance before using any
equipment, processes and aids
Types of aids and equipment
12. CLIENT INVOLVEMENT
Confirm personal preferences that the client may have
Encourage the client to participate in his/her own support plan
Provide information that may help them to meet their own needs
14. Equipment, Processes and Aids
There is a range of equipment processes and aids available to ensure
clients are cared for safely and properly
An assessment usually takes place to decide what is required
15. Equipment, Processes and Aids
Different types of equipment such as wheelchairs, mobility aids, bed
Services within South Australia:
Technical Aid for the Disabled
Independent Living Centre
Useful website: Sa.gov.au
16. DEALING WITH RISK
Categories of risk include:
Evidence of self neglect
Behaviours of concern
Impaired judgment and problem solving ability
Impaired cognitive functioning
Changes in health status
Home environment hazards
Social right infringements
17. PROVIDING ASSISTANCE
Assistance you provide varies depending on the client’s needs, examples of
providing personal care include
Showering
Bed Bathing
Shaving
Toileting
Eating and Drinking
Oral Health Care
Mobility and Transfer
18. PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL CARE
Assistance can include technical care
Checking or changing a dressing
Catheter care
Prostheses
Ant thrombotic stockings
Breathing devices
Simple eye care
19. Maintaining Client’s Confidentiality, Privacy
and Dignity
The following are mandatory in the workplace
These form part of the roles and responsibilities of an employee working
in the area of providing support to meet personal care needs
1. Privacy refers to a person’s ability to control access of others to themselves
and information about themselves
2. Confidentiality is about data or information , and refers to managing access
to private information
3. Dignity refers to a persons pride and self respect
21. A client’s condition and/or health may from day to day
Note any changes
Report as is necessary
Seek advice on variations to the work plan that may be required
Modify processes aids and equipment as required
Reporting changes in a client’s health or needs
22. RECAP
Provide Support to Meet Personal Care Needs
• Evaluate the information you have received in this session
Hinweis der Redaktion
Facilitator to refer to page 3 of workbook.
Brainstorm what participants believe personal care to be, and where do they think the services will be provided (page 4 and 5)
Facilitator to ask participants to brainstorm activities of daily living. (refer to page 13)
Facilitator to then discuss personal support requirement dot points on page 15. Discuss with group what type of personal care they provide.
Facilitator to discuss each dot point pages 15-23
Personal hygiene- PARTNER ACTIVITY: Practice task 3.
Facilitator to use hyperlink http://jobaccess.gov.au/Advice/ProductOrSolutionOne/Pages/TransferAidsSpecificTypes.aspx for mobility and transfer if further explanation/equipment information required.
Mobility and Transfer- GROUP ACTIVITY: Practice task 5 but relate it to how many times you have moved around this morning.
Facilitator to read out dot points (refer to page 7)
Facilitator to click on hyperlink to
http://www.haccohs.adhc.nsw.gov.au/service_planning_and_delivery/care_and_service_planning. Discuss what should be in a personal care support plan
Facilitator to discuss monitoring of the plan and methods used to review/monitor plans pages 8 to 11.
Facilitator to refer to dot points on page 25.
GROUP ACTIVITY: Facilitator to ask participants to imagine they are receiving personal care (e.g. to shower) Ask participants to share their feelings regarding this and how they might feel in this situation.
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to refer to Page 31 and describe simple risks and major risks.
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to click on hyperlink http://ilcaustralia.org.au/search_category_paths/307 and navigate through website with participants.
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Complete Part B with your partner questions 1-6 Page 38.
1) Facilitator to ask the participants “Am I doing this task to the client or with the client?” .. Response should be ‘WITH you’. both have an active role, client should not be passive in care.
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to discuss types of information you can provide and refer to page 48.
GROUP ACTIVITY: Facilitator to say ‘Wherever possible the client should be encouraged to participate in his/her own personal care. Develop a daily task list, highlighting the aspects that the person you care for can attend to unaided’. Discuss as a group, does the person you care for do these things independently?
Facilitator to introduce the topic refer to page 53.
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to ask who might do the assessment (Response OT, Physio etc.)
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to hand out fact sheet on equipment published by NSW Government and go through different types of equipment.
Facilitator to discuss participants knowledge on aids and what is available.
Facilitator to click on hyperlinks: TADSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PAWdxJFT0 -TADSA aims to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, the frail aged and those who care for them, through the application of technology using the skills of volunteers. (3 min 16 sec)
Facilitator to click on hyperlink: sa.gov.au http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Community+support/Disability/Adults+with+disability/Equipment+and+home+modifications navigate through EQUIPMENT.
Facilitator to read through each dot point and refer to pages 63-65
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Practice task 19 page 65.
Facilitator to refer to pages 69-71.
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Facilitator to ask each group to have one to two topics from the list in the slide. Each group to use work book as a reference and to come up with a presentation using butchers paper to give ‘tips’ on providing assistance on their topic to a new Carer.
Facilitator to refer to pages 74-76.
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Facilitator to ask each group to have one topic from the list in the slide. Each group to use work book (PAGES 74-76) as a reference and to come up with a presentation using butchers paper to give ‘tips’ on providing assistance on their topic to a new Carer.
Facilitator to read through slide.
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Complete questions 1 and 2 page 88.
1) Facilitator to introduce the topic refer to page 89.
Facilitator to read through slide.
Facilitator to read example on page 90 then discuss changes in physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual and sexual needs.
Facilitator to discuss the need to report the changes and refer to page 93.
Trainer to review table on page 97 regarding possible changes to aids and discuss.
GROUP ACTIVITY: practice task 28 page 98.
PARTNER ACTIVITY: Part B.
1. Facilitator to lead a discussion on the topics covered and gain formal evaluation.