Coroner recommends care workers document changes in residents’ health.
In a story by By on December 6, 2017 in Research & Clinical.
Coroner Wants Better Aged Care Recording - A Queensland coroner has recommended that personal care workers and assistants in nursing be required to enter any variation in a resident’s condition in their progress notes, following the health-related death of an 86-year-old aged care resident.
The case was reported and reviewed in the November edition of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine’s (VIFM) Residential Aged Care Communique by Professor Joseph Ibrahim from Monash University.
It involved a resident residing in the low-level care section of a residential aged care facility, which had a registered nurse available if called upon by personal care workers.
After the resident notified staff he was unwell on a Sunday morning, he was reviewed by a registered nurse, examined by his GP the following day and died the evening after that.
See the full story here:- https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/2017/12/06/coroner-recommends-care-workers-document-changes-residents-health/?platform=hootsuite
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