App for Healthcare Workers to Easily Idelify Health Risks in the Elderly
With the risk scan app, care workers in elderly care can easily and quickly identify health risks in the elderly. The app provides suggestions for follow -up actions and practical advice to improve healthcare.
This app for risk signaling, developed by Kennisplein Zorg for Beter, is for care staff in nursing and care homes, and for home care staff.
Is there an increased risk?
With the app you answer five questions for the health risks: malnutrition, medication errors, mouth problems, skin injury, incontinence, depression and falling. The app then indicates whether there is an increased risk, and whether there may also be other health risks, which you can then check immediately. For example: a risk of malnutrition can also lead to skin injury or falling faster.
Print the result
The results of the risk scan can email, print and add to the client's file or care plan of the client from the app as PDF.
The five benefits of the Riskoscan app
• With this app you can easily signal risks, with your smartphone or tablet, close to the client.
• Risk signaling goes faster due to the shortened list.
• The app signals connections between different risks
• You can email the results and follow-up actions in PDF form to yourself. You can easily add this PDF to the care plan. In this way the app stimulates methodically.
• You can use the time that you save with this to reduce risks in practice. This app gives you practical advice for this.
Risk signaling for elderly care
On the Kennisplein care for better, an explanation of the risk scan with frequently asked questions. You will also find extensive information about risk signaling here.
www.zorgvoorbeter.nl/risicosignaling
Kennisplein Care for Beter
The app is based on the short checklist of safe care of care for Beter. The app was developed by Kennisplein Zorg for Beter, a joint initiative of Actiz, Vilans, V&VN and ZonMw.
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