2. Introduction
This Personal Care course enables candidates to explore an
understanding of how to deliver quality personal care and
principles of care planning. The course is relevant to people
who provide personal care to clients in all care settings.
Candidates will learn about how to provide baths, showers,
adequate mouth and denture care, hair care, foot and nail
care according to the service user’s needs. Candidates will
also gain an understanding about adhering to basic safety
rules and standard precaution principles when providing care
3. Aims andobjectives
What is personal care?
Bath, Showers according to individuals needs
Mouth care, Denture care according to the needs
Basic safety and standard precautions principles when
providing personal care
Importance of recording and reporting
4. Meaning
Personal Care includes: assistance with dressing, feeding,
washing and toileting, as well as advice, encouragement and
emotional and psychological support. The Department of
Work and Pensions (DWP) defines this as attention required
in connection with bodily functions. Bodily functions can
include dressing, washing, bathing or shaving, toileting,
getting in or out of bed, eating, drinking, taking medication,
and communicating. Seeing and hearing are also considered
to be bodily functions.
5. Definition
The occupation of attending to the physical needs of people
who are
disabled or otherwise unable to take care of themselves, incl
uding tasks
such as bathing, management of bodily functions, and cookin
g.
7. Staff offer assistance with
Shaving
Oral
Hygiene
Personal care
Medication
Toileting and continence
Visits to GPs
Social activities
Hospital to home
