Care for a day care user

A day care user is cared for like any resident — a care plan, its tasks, the medication — but only on the days and hours they are at the centre. Everything that plans work reads the same answer: is the user expected that day, and at that hour?

On the care board

The care board carries a Today’s attendance tile, among the things the shift does today: it opens the screen at the door, and its badge counts the users expected and not ticked in yet. It is shown to whoever keeps the register. See Recording attendance.

The care plan

On the file of a user without a plan, Create the care plan opens it. From the plan, Apply a template adds the objectives and cares a plan of that kind usually carries.

The Written for field of a template says who it is meant for: Any stay, Stays the night or Comes by day. A day care user is offered only the templates written for people who come by day or for any stay, that match their CSJ category. WideCare ships three:

  • CSJ F — day care, physically dependent;

  • CSJ Fd — day care, disoriented;

  • CSJ D — day care, diagnosed dementia, which builds on the Fd one.

Each describes a day that starts on arrival and ends when the user goes home. See Care plans.

Apply a template from the plan of a Fd day care user: the list offers the CSJ Fd template only

The care plan templates: six Katz templates written for people who stay the night, three CSJ templates written for people who come by day

The plan of a day care user is reviewed once a year. When a user moves from the day care centre to a bed, or the other way round, the next review follows the cadence of the new sector.

Tasks on the days the user comes

Care tasks are planned only on the days the user is expected:

  • the days ticked under Expected on, on the stay;

  • with none ticked, every day the centre opens;

  • and any day actually recorded in the register, even outside those days.

A day the centre is closed, or a day of a declared absence, plans nothing.

The week of a user who comes on Tuesday and Thursday, in the care calendar: the morning, noon and afternoon cares on those two days, nothing on the five others

Medication and meals within the day

The medication follows the same days, and the same hours: a dose is placed only while the user is at the centre — between their arrival and their departure in the register, or, before the register knows, within their Usual hours (the centre’s hours when blank). A dose outside that window is taken at home, and filed as « away », never as « in hospital ».

The meals follow the same rule: a meal is served at the centre only while the user is there.

When the user does not come

  • Before 13:00, the register is open: the care of the day stays planned, since the user may still arrive.

  • From 13:00, a user expected and not marked present did not come: the care of the day is cancelled, not counted as missed.

  • A hospitalisation pauses the care as for any resident. Recorded from the register as a day cut short, it suspends the prescriptions and cancels the care of the day in the same way. See Absences and hospitalisation.

  • A user who comes back from an absence is ticked in as usual: the absence closes, and the care and treatments resume.

The cares of a user expected on Tuesday and not marked present by 13:00: all nine cancelled, none missed

On the phone

The WideCare app shows the same tasks: the cares of the day, for the users who are expected. Its Attendance card opens today’s attendance, to tick the users in and out. See Tasks and Recording attendance.

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