Delivering pro-active care management - and better Inspection Reports
These four design principles combine to deliver a care recording system that allows managers and carers to focus on delivering person-centred care - with the knowledge that nothing is overlooked and prompts appear to warn of upcoming events and actions and actively forewarn of related actions and possible signs of deterioration of any service user.
Care home and care record management - care-Log+
Definable care records for flexibility, simple access to care records 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.
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 addition to the care management facilities described above, the system provides a fully functional tool for recording potential resident enquiries, 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 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
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Similarly a note that a Care Plan review is needed 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.
1. Care documents are linked and not viewed in isolation - for example a daily/shift note will automatically prompt, if relevant, a review of a related care plan or health or risk assessment.
2. Care documents are unique to each care home so, although the system is shipped with many examples and recognised care assessment models and tools, all can be changed or removed and alternatives added.
3. Care is never provided in front of a computer screen so care-Log+ has the option for carers to use palmtop computers to enter and view information where ever they are.
4. To enable and deliver the recording of Person-Centred Care with accuracy, efficiency and ease of use
care-Log+ can be used with 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.