Care Journal For a Skilled Nursing Home Patient: A Caregiver Workbook for Nursing Home Resident Safety and Quality of Care

A valuable new tool to help friends and family members improve the life of a loved one in a Nursing Home. This Care Journal provides an easy way for family, friends, and caregivers to keep track of vital information. There are five sections for recording information to meaningfully track the care and services needed, provided, and omitted. Each section provides easy-to-understand guidance and suggestions, a place to record significant observations and information, and tips on how to use the information effectively. The sections include: current nursing services provided (including medications, therapy, rehabilitation, and treatments); activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, feeding, turning, help with walking, and toileting or incontinence care); dementia care (including Alzheimer's disease); permanent medical information; and other resources, tips and insights to help navigate a resident's stay at the nursing home. This care journal will provide you what you need most, at the time you most need it. It can help turn your love and concern into critical life enhancing action and provide help when interacting with the interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, therapists, dieticians, social service staff, activities and nursing aides, and others involved with the patient's care.