Runwood Homes has launched an on-person care guide to every care delivery staff member across all 72 of its homes.
The Residents Every Day (RED) Care Guide is an innovative resource, full of supportive material for carers to refer to if required and aims to support and promote safe, reliable, evidence-based care to residents every day.
In the form of a laminated multipage flipchart, the guide is now carried on shift by Rmore than 3700 carers in their tunic pockets as part of their everyday uniform.
Gavin O’Hare-Connolly, chief operating officer at Runwood Homes, says: “The guide is an easily accessible support and assists, using traffic light signal cues, with checking residents’ health. For a consistent service, it provides standardised suggested next steps, highlighting when any issues require escalation. Providing our staff with this go-guide will give them heightened confidence in decision making in their important role of caring for residents.”
Runwood Homes care assistant, Nicky Powell, adds: “It’s a fantastic tool and really handy. The industry standard charts, which are tools that we refer to every day, are a great inclusion, such as The Abbey Pain Tool, Bristol Stool Chart and urine colour scale.
"Other prevention information included, for example, about falls, pressure sores and sepsis are also really helpful and keeps everything to look out for, front of mind, whilst still tending to residents everyday needs and wishes.”
Pictured: Care assistants Nicky Powell and Marina Sandu at Elizabeth House care home in Benfleet, Essex
