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.
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