A new model of care for basic foot care in residential services
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Background The Podiatry Department at Peninsula Health services clients in acute, subacute and community, in addition to 98 residential care beds. Podiatrists were concerned about the clinical risk of providing basic toenail cutting which impacted on their ability to provide more frequent, essential treatment to residents who were at higher risk of falls, ulcers and amputations. Residents, their relatives and nursing staff had complained that residents were not receiving a frequent podiatry service. Analysis of these complaints identified that the issue was not access to a podiatry service but, in fact, access to regular basic foot care and toenail-cutting.
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دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011