Lisa Lockhart

My responsibilities include but are not limited to:

ADL Assistance- Showering, toileting, dressing, hoisting and/or transfers, grooming, feeding, skin integrity management, infection control, pressure injury prevention, assisting residents with ambulation, falls prevention and falls risk management.

• Adhering strictly to New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 at all times ensuring my own health and safety and that of staff and residents in my care.
• Adhering strictly to and exercising the Health and Disability Commissioners Code of Rights at all times.
• Adhering to and upholding at all times the New Zealand Medical Associations Code of Ethics.
• I attend call bells in a timely manner.
• The two hourly turning of bedbound residents preventing pressure injures and to maintain residents comfort.
• Food, fluid and bowel charting.
• Restraint monitoring and charting.
• Progress note documentation.
• I engage residents in meaningful conversation, encourage socialization and am a strong advocate for self care and independence.
• I report and respond to accidents, incidents and emergencies in a timely and composed manner.

Key requirements of my role include:

• Activities of Daily Living assistance
• Personal Cares - bathing, toileting, feeding, dressing, grooming and assistance with ambulation.
• Pressure Injury care, prevention and skin integrity management
• Continence care
• Infection control
• Fall prevention
• Risk management
• Patient room and laundry maintenance
• Food/fluid and bowel charting
• Progress note documentation

• I delivered weekly a dynamic stretching program prescribed by the Ministry of Health to my client who has Muscular Dystrophy in order to neutralize adaptive muscle shortening, reduce stiffness and to maintain a functional range of motion
• I ensured the safety of my client by acknowledging their physical limitations, feedback, their comfort and providing recovery between stretches. I did this by also providing an appropriate warm up and cooldown of the shoulder, wrist and ankle joints
• I provided assistance to my client in activities of daily living including toileting, transfering, bathing, dressing and grooming.
• I am competent in the use of people handling equipment including sliding sheets, transfer belts, wheelchairs, full, standing and ceiling hoists, shower and bath chairs and emergency equipment.