From: The work pattern of personal care workers in two Australian nursing homes: a time-motion study
Category | Activities |
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Direct care | Physical Assessment. |
Routine hygiene (e.g. daily shower or wash). | |
Continence related hygiene (e.g. shower or wash following pad change). | |
Oral Care. | |
Shave or grooming. | |
Toileting - prompted by a resident. | |
Toileting - prompted by a personal care worker. | |
Pad check. | |
Pad change. | |
Scheduled toileting. | |
Dressing a resident. | |
Resident mobility; passive & active exercises; turning a resident in bed. | |
Medication administration. | |
Specimen collection; urine collection. | |
Assisting a resident with eating and drinking (include feeding systems). | |
Assisting a resident with food (e.g. cutting up food, uncovering food or delivery of food). | |
Care of the deceased; laying out. | |
Assisting a resident with hand washing following the use of toilet. | |
Assisting a resident with transfer to and from a bed, a chair, etc. | |
Transferring a resident to or from dining room or board room. | |
Weighing a resident. | |
Assisting a resident to receive a phone call. | |
Attending to a resident call for assistance. | |
Indirect care | Equipment set up (e.g. sling set up, shower chair set up). |
Resident shower set up (e.g. preparing shampoo, towel or body lotion). | |
Bed making routine. | |
Changing a bed following an incontinent episode. | |
Cleaning up spills following an incontinent episode. | |
Re-stocking supplies to a trolley. | |
Re-stocking supplies to a resident's cupboard. | |
Transporting linen to and from laundry. | |
Transporting clinical waste for disposal. | |
Using or cleaning up bed pans. | |
Emptying a resident's meal plate. | |
Collecting pads from a storage cupboard. | |
Collecting a resident's clothes from his or her cupboard; putting clothes back to the cupboard. | |
Sorting and putting a resident's clothes to his or her room. | |
Infection control | Putting on personal protective equipment. |
Taking off personal protective equipment. | |
Alcohol hand washing (related to toileting or pad change). | |
Alcohol hand washing (unrelated to toileting or pad change). | |
Water hand washing (related to toileting or pad change). | |
Water hand washing (unrelated to toileting or pad change). | |
Documentation | Locating or collecting a resident's records. |
Taking a photo of a resident. | |
Reviewing or writing resident's clinical information; reading notes; viewing results. | |
Putting records back to filing area. | |
Transit | Standing or walking in the corridor between activities. |
Staff break | Personal errands (off unit chores; meal break; making personal telephone call). |
Oral communication | Asking for assistance from another personal care worker. |
Assisting another personal care worker to do his or her work. | |
Participating in-service training. | |
Communication of information about a resident (external). | |
Communication of information about a resident (internal). | |
Communicating with a resident. | |
Communicating with a resident's family. | |
Receiving a phone call; making a phone call. | |
Others | Other tasks not included. |