care-Log+ uses palmtop computers (or PDAs) and touch screen terminals to assist the carer in viewing and recording information while performing their role. This means that Care staff have no need to return to a computer screen to enter or retrieve resident data; they therefore operate more efficiently by spending far greater time during their shifts providing care rather than seeking information from other staff or completing paperwork. Additionally many carers are still unfamiliar with a computer and may struggle to use a keyboard. Providing touch screen data entry makes information retrieval entry intuitive and simple to use.
...combined with proactive care management
Each possible answer can be pre-defined as to whether it will automatically cause an 'alarm' to be created when the collected notes are downloaded into the PC and stored against each resident or service user's record. For example, an appetite recorded as 'Ate Little' or 'Refused Meal' could be defined as raising alarms while 'Ate Well' and 'Ate Moderately' would not.
Care home and care record management - care-Log+
Definable care records for flexibility, simple access to care for carers
easyLog’s care-Log+ software is a comprehensive response to the care recording, administrative and financial management needs of today’s residential, extra care and supported living care sectors. The product’s flexibility means that is suitable for implementation across the entire range of residential, extra care and supported living environments; elderly residential, nursing and dementia, learning disabilities, mental health, child care and substance abuse.
As a web-based software application, care-Log+ can be implemented on a single or multi-home basis with a centralised or separate databases.
Flexible
record keeping means person-centred care
For example, care-Log+ offers the facilities to define the overall ‘notes groups’ (for example appetite, socialisation, 8-2 Shift notes, activities, etc.) that a carer can record together with the possible answers they can select from dropdown lists that are presented to them. Therefore fluid intake could be recorded from a list that gave options such as 'Acceptable', Drank Moderately, Drank Little or 'Refused or equally intake could be defined in terms of '250ml', '500ml', etc. - the choice is yours.
In addition, the carer can record text notes using the touch screen keypad functionality provided if the dropdown options given are not appropriate on any occasion.
care-Log+ can be integrated with our range of staff scheduling and time and attendance systems to provide a complete care home management system for record, employee and financial management.
In this way care-Log+ pro-actively prompts the care home manager or senior carer for further information or warns of situations that require attention. For example if a particular resident has been recorded as having poor appetite for any three days out of seven consecutive days, then the system will display a warning and prompt for further notes to be entered on the actions to be taken.
In addition to the care management facilities described above, the system provides a fully functional tool for recording resident, care plan and staff records, risk assessments, complaints, health and safety, policies and procedures and financial and invoice details. Follow-up or completion dates can be set for any event (for example, a care plan review) and warnings automatically generated if these targets are not met.
care-Log+ includes a personnel module that enables records to be kept of previous
employment, training, supervision/personnel reviews, sickness, maternity leave, qualifications and inoculations, etc. Induction and
training requirements can be defined per carer with date ranges for completion defined for any element. Actions then not completed
within the timescale are automatically highlighted. So when a new staff member joins, an induction list covering all of the associated
actions required –
Similarly a note that a Care Plan review is required will be automatically generated on the appropriate day and, by clicking on it, will take the user directly to the relevant screen for the detail to be entered. Prompts to perform care activities - such as provide a particular medication at a certain time - can also be defined and highlighted on the PDA and touch screen terminal.
Care Plans can be pre-defined with ‘standard’ wording for the Aim and Action (although even these ‘titles’ can be changed) against any Problem within the generic type of Care Plan. This text can be used on creation of a care plan, edited and partially used or ignored completely and the carers enter their own specific wording. A key worker can be selected from a dropdown list together with the period until the next review which is automatically brought to the attention of the carer.
Care Plans can be linked to definable evaluations. These enable a formalised review to be constructed and ensure that the care plan’s effectiveness is being monitored from a consistent platform. Similarly ‘alarms’ can be defined for any answer provided in the evaluation to warn of deterioration in the service user’s condition against the care plan.
