Level 3: Complex Care
Nursing Theme 3 - Personal Care, Nutrition and Hydration
- Complex wound management requiring more than one nurse, or takes more than
one hour to complete, or chronic wound management at least once a day, or
requires 2 hourly pressure area care
- Mobility or repositioning difficulties requiring the assistance of two people and/or
the use of aids
- Requires assistance with most, or all, activities of daily living, or requires personal
care lasting longer than one hour
- Patients with spinal instability, spinal cord Injury and/or cord compression
- TPN or requires enteral feeding up to 4 hourly
- NGT aspiration