Level 3: Complex Care

Clinical Descriptors

• The patient’s condition may be stable but has the propensity to change quickly
• Multiple co-morbidities requiring frequent interventions or close observation
• Complex needs, requiring varying degrees of support with majority of activities of daily living
• Patients who are in a stable condition but are dependent on nursing care to meet most,  or all, of their activities of daily living
• Facilitating a complex discharge where it is the responsibility of the ward nurse