The Queen’s Nursing Institute Transition to Care Home Nursing is an information resource for nurses working in a care home setting. The resource, written by Queen’s Nurse Sharon Aldridge-Bent, is structured into ten chapters on subjects including the fundamentals of nursing care, safe working and regulation, adults at risk, dementia care, building relationships with family,Continue reading “Transition to Care Home Nursing”
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Frontline best practice for supporting residents in care homes with COVID-19
Jenni Burton: Infographic poster and plain text versions freely available to access and download from: gov.scot/coronavirus-care-home-guidance
Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support
Topics – Resources – Housing LIN For more about how localities can develop a better range of housing choices, download brochure. There are an estimated 930,000 adults with a learning disability in England, 129,000 of whom receive local authority social care support. These pages provide resources, references, tools and outline good practice to ensure thatContinue reading “Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support”
New resource to enhance management of Care Home Residents in Acute and Emergency Care Settings
British Geriatrics Society, Dr Jenni Burton is a clinical lecturer and specialist registrar in geriatric medicine in Glasgow. Due to high levels of complex co-morbidity, frailty and dementia, care home residents can be difficult to assess, particularly when they are acutely unwell and in unfamiliar surroundings. The noisy, busy environments in acute receiving units andContinue reading “New resource to enhance management of Care Home Residents in Acute and Emergency Care Settings”
COVID-19: Supportive resources for care staff Dear friends, How are you? We are thinking of you at this incredibly difficult time. We’d like to share some supportive resources with you. We hope you find them helpful.
I-Hydrate: 5 steps to defeat dehydration in older people | University of West London Older people are at an especially high risk of dehydration. As we age, our thirst reflex can start to not work so well. We might become less mobile, worry about incontinence or have difficulty swallowing – all of these contribute toContinue reading
Living well in care homes – RCOT
Keeping active is essential to living a fulfilling life. That applies to everyone, especially older people living in care homes. This resource is for residents, member of staff and care home managers. It offers best practice in supporting older people to enjoy daily activities that support their health and wellbeing. Sometimes it is best practiceContinue reading “Living well in care homes – RCOT”
Care home journey | Royal College of Nursing This resource allows you to follow a resident’s care home journey through from pre-admission to end of life, or to simply access individual sections to meet your learning needs and seek clinical inspiration. Each section demonstrates the role of nursing staff when supporting the resident, their familiesContinue reading
Care Under the Rainbow Online learning materials and films for making #carehomes more inclusive for older LGBT+ people in England and Wales This project produced a research-informed online learning resource for care and nursing home staff and managers in England and Wales that communicates messages for informing practice from recent and current research on Lesbian,Continue reading
Activity provision self-assessment tool
Culture Environment Individual Management Planning Resources Skills Social and community This simple, easy-to-use tool will help you create an action plan for your organisation. You’ll be able to use the tool to: identify and define actions that need to be taken identify who is responsible for each action add timescales for all required actions includeContinue reading “Activity provision self-assessment tool”
