Level 3: Complex Care
The patient may have a number of identified problems, some of which
interact, making it more difficult to predict the outcome of any individual treatment.
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