The content on this site can be used by all health professionals particularly in the Ashburton and Rural Services and Medical Surgical Division of Christchurch Hospital. This site discusses the integration of assessment and care planning documents and provides approved screening tools and documents for use in assessment and care planning of patients/consumers.
Purpose of Integrated Assessment and Care planning documentation
To meet new Health Quality and Safety Commission recommendations
To standardise patient assessments and care planning in our hospitals to ensure we meet regulatory standards, while still accommodating speciality requirements e.g. patient and area specific section additions
To provide a user friendly process of assessment and planning by reducing the requirement to complete other forms that could be missed i.e.
Smoking cessation pink form
Falls Risk Assessment and Management form
Pressure Area Risk assessment (Braden score form)
Family Violence Screening
Different Allied Health/speciality service referral forms (can be numerous speciality forms to complete)
To reduce the requirement for staff to record actions within the patients progress notes i.e. using our care planning documentation to its fullest
To ensure we can evaluate our assessment and care planning documents by using tick boxes for actions/interventions