Home Care Visit Record
Every visit in date order with the arrival and leaving times.
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The daily record of care given — visits, medication signed for, handovers, rotas and the plan everyone works from.
Care runs on paperwork that has to be written at the time and read by whoever comes next, whether that is an agency, a family taking turns, or one person doing it alone. These sheets record what was done and what was said; they contain no dosages, no fluid targets, no care standards and no statement of what anyone is required to provide, because that is set by the care plan, the prescriber and the rules where you are.
20 resources · every one as a printable and fillable PDF in A4 and US Letter, and online · 8 with an Excel workbook.
Every visit in date order with the arrival and leaving times.
Each medicine listed exactly as its label reads, with who prescribed it.
What matters to the person, in their own words.
What the person can do for themselves, activity by activity.
Every fall, near miss or concern with the date, time and place.
Everything offered through the day, with the time.
Who handed over, who took over, the date and the shift.
How the day runs — waking, meals, rest, bed — in the family's words.
Who is coming on each day and in each slot.
Every care cost dated, described and marked with who paid it.
Which ward, which hospital and who to ring back with a question.
What matters most to you, written before anyone has to ask.
Who to ring first in an emergency, and who after that.
What usually happens at each part of the day, in the person's own routine.
Where the person comes from and the life they have led, in their own words.
What equipment is in the house and where each item came from.
Every journey with the date, the two places and the reason.
What is happening each morning, afternoon and evening across the week.
The client's details and the arrangements for getting in, in one place.
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