Resident Care Plans is the plan of care that describes how the facility and staff will use to enhance, or maintain a person's optimal physical, mental and psycho-social well-being. The care plan is formed based on the pre-admission assessment or medical assessment results. The Care Plan area in eResidentCare is a flexible, free flow compilation of the Resident's needs and how the staff will assist those needs. The format of a care plan begins with:
- Care Plan Category - The ability to add a category to your care plans will help facilities organize multiple care plans under appropriate categories such as ADL, medication, socialization, Incontinence, etc.
- Care Plan - Add a name that would describe what areas this care plan is to address. For example a common care plan name is 'ADL'. A high percentage of residents require assistance with bathing, eating, dressing, toileting and transferring, these fall under 'ADL'.
- Problem - Describe here the Resident's problem that the care plan is to address.
- Goal - Once a problem has been defined that the care plan is to address, describe the desired results.
- Intervention - To get to the goal, staff assistance is needed and how staff will assist becomes the Interventions, or the tasks that staff will be responsible for. Interventions can be scheduled, and once scheduled will show on the eTASK charting screen. When the tasks are on the eTASK charting screen, records of the tasks being done and by which staff is now possible.
- Care Plan Date - Date the care plan was created.
- Review Date - Date the care plan is scheduled to be reviewed.
- Resolve Date - When a care plan is no longer current, resolving a care plan will put it to history. This button is found next to the Save button. Any tasks that were scheduled automatically will have an end date the same as the resolve date. Any task that was on the eTASK charting screen will fall off at the end of the day and not shown the next day.