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Long term care

for nurses
Rashed Alotaibi
Medical registrar
Objective
- Definitions and types
- why us ?
- Nursing responsibilities
- Minimum data set
- Beyond MDS
- Management of common symptoms
- prevention of complications
- It is a team work , not nursing only
- dry slides
- we are not a nursing home
- we are not LTC nurses
- no training enough
- the misconception of LTC .
introduction
- A major component of the health care delivery system
- LTC is closely associated with disabilities emanating from chronic conditions that are
mostly related to human aging.
- A rise in chronic conditions and functional limitations will create a growing demand
for LTC services
- Thanks to better sanitation, nutrition, and medical care, longevity is increasing in
developing countries.
- The social environment in these countries is also changing. Both men and women are
increasingly being drawn into the work- force to improve their standards of living.
- Their lifestyles are becoming hectic but sedentary.
- A broad understanding of long-term care as a distinct segment of the health care
delivery for managing any LTC organization.
Definition
- Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-
medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term
care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist
people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing,
bathing, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at
home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes.
OR
- When a person requires someone else to help him with his physical or
emotional needs over an extended period of time, this is long-term care
EG:WALKING,BATHING,DRESSING etc
Types
- Nursing home
- Rehabilitation center
- End of life care
Types cont
Temporary long term care (need for care for
only weeks or months)
•Rehabilitation from a hospital stay
•Recovery from illness
•Recovery from injury
•Recovery from surgery
•Terminal medical condition
Ongoing long term care (need for care for
many months or years)
•Chronic medical conditions
•Chronic severe pain
•Permanent disabilities
•Dementia
•Ongoing need for help with activities of daily living
•Need for supervision
HOSPICE
For people who are terminally ill and in need of
care. This care can be provided in the home or in a
day hospital setting. Care of dying is common
experience in long term care. Caring behaviours of
staff at the time of death, allowing family to be
involved with the resident and providing spiritual
support are important and valued nursing functions
Why us
Since almost 10 yrs , the trends towards the long stay patients to be
referred to peripheral hospital , to utilise the peripheral hospitals and ??
as temporary solution for a bigger issue
NURSE RESPONSIBILITIES
NURSE’S RESPONSIBILITIES IN LTC FACILITIES

- Assessment
- Care planning
- Care –giving
- Communication
- Management
MINIMAL DATA SET = ASSESSMENT tool
BEYOND MDS
Objective
- Definitions and types
- why us ?
- Nursing responsibilities
- Minimum data set
- Beyond MDS
- Management of common symptoms
- prevention of complications
Change in status
caring for families
Documentation
medications
Falls
Infections
Dehydration signs in elderly
- dry mouth
- rdeuced saliva
- dec urine output
- sunken eyes
- weakness
- tachycardia
- fever
- delerium , confusion
Causes must be identified and corrected
Weight loss
Urinary incontinence
Delirium
PAI
N
IDENTIFYIN
G MEDICAL
EMERGENCI
ES
END OF LIFE CARE

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