Non‑Discrimination Policy
Changing Our Care Plans
Posted October 04, 2013
The RAC and Activities teams have been working with carepartners and residents to make a change to Resident Care Plans. This change is intended to be a step on our Eden Alternative journey towards resident-centered care.
Starting soon, carepartners will see a new page in the Care Plan Binder. The binder is most often used by CNAs but will be available to everyone who works with a particular resident. Each resident will have a page that introduces them to the carepartners, including a photo, short biography, and a few preferences. The preferences may include favorite activities, favorite topics to talk about and preferences for care.
The sheets are intended to help carepartners, including both clinical and nonclinical staff, see the residents they work with as individuals and provide care for them according to the resident’s preferences.
In the future, the RAC Department hopes to add the new information to Care Tracker so that it will be the first thing carepartners see in a resident’s record. For now, the pages will be available in the Care Plan Binder on each neighborhood.
This change illustrates Eden Principle 7: “Medical treatment should be the servant of genuine human caring, never its master.” The new information sheets encourage carepartners to get to know the residents as human beings instead of just as patients to be treated.