Palliative care bereavement counsellor, continence advice, community care nursing
Palliative care bereavement counsellor
The counsellor works very closely with the palliative care nurse and offers support in a number of ways:
- Information
- Education
- Helpful listening and counselling
- Assistance to access other services
- Help with children who are grieving
- Issues of meaning and spirituality
- Bereavement follow-up and counselling for family members and friends of the deceased
Continence advice
A continence nurse adviser can help by assessing the problem, finding the cause and by helping to improve, manage, or solve continence-related problems.
The continence nurse adviser can also provide information and advice about aids while providing support to both clients and carers. Generally, a clinic and home-based service is available.
Community care nursing
Community care nurses provide planned home nursing and clinic services to people. They provide a wide range of nursing services aimed at assisting people to maintain health, wellbeing and independence. This might be short-term, following an episode in hospital, or long-term in the management of chronic illness.
The service includes the following:
- Wound care - surgical/chronic/burns/skin grafts/leg ulcer assessment involving digital photography and dopier assessment.
- Medication management - injections/Webster pack education.
- Stomatal care - support and education to promote self-care.
- Health promotion/education - providing information on health and self-care for clients and carers in conjunction with other teams involved in domiciliary care.
- Assessment for carer's allowance - a payment for carers looking after a person in their home.
- Home oxygen program - education and support for eligible clients.