The Importance Of Easy Caregiver Access
This provides a suggestion on how to organize your binder for easy caregiver access: Remember this is your binder and it is important to have what you believe to be the pertinent information a caregiver may need in order to provide the services that you are requesting.
A. Purchased Annual Calendar monthly divider
1. Use this to collect the daily log sheets and all information by month.
2. Caregiver should keep each log or notes used for daily charting in chorological order with the current date on top.
3. This will allow the primary caregiver easy access to the daily information.
4. Take the pertinent forms when seeing a medical professional or if an emergency rises to share what has occurred over several days or weeks, and return them
to the binder after the visit.
5. At the end of the year remove the monthly information and place it in a file for future reference. B. First section: Contains the pertinent daily information
1. Caregiver Sign-In/Out Log
2. Emergency Contact Information
3. Meal Suggestions
4. Allergy List
5. Medication Daily Schedule
6. Alerts and Concerns Log
7. Medical Concerns Checklist
8. Medical Occurrence Log
9. Equipment Maintenance
10. Community Transportation
11. Personal Supplies List
12. Personal Bag Organization
13. Address A to Z
C. Annual monthly calendar dividers
1. This is for you’re the forms that you want to monitor daily
2. It provides easy access and organization in the event you need to take a form that has the history to a medical appointment.
D. Section to hold all your forms: Have several blank copies available for a minimum of 1-2 weeks You can put each form set in a 3-hole ring plastic holder or with pockets for easy access.
1. Caregivers Daily Checklist
2. Daily Vital Record Keeping
3. Monitoring Log. Blood Pressure, Glucose, Other
4. Intake Log
5. Medical Occurrence Log
6. Personal Supplies fax/ call reorder form. Create a list of the product numbers, information and amount to recorder. The caregiver can simply check off which supplies are needed.
7. Chart Notes
8. Any other forms you have designed to best assist you.
9. Blank Note Paper for notes and daily instructions as needed
A. Purchased Annual Calendar monthly divider
1. Use this to collect the daily log sheets and all information by month.
2. Caregiver should keep each log or notes used for daily charting in chorological order with the current date on top.
3. This will allow the primary caregiver easy access to the daily information.
4. Take the pertinent forms when seeing a medical professional or if an emergency rises to share what has occurred over several days or weeks, and return them
to the binder after the visit.
5. At the end of the year remove the monthly information and place it in a file for future reference. B. First section: Contains the pertinent daily information
1. Caregiver Sign-In/Out Log
2. Emergency Contact Information
3. Meal Suggestions
4. Allergy List
5. Medication Daily Schedule
6. Alerts and Concerns Log
7. Medical Concerns Checklist
8. Medical Occurrence Log
9. Equipment Maintenance
10. Community Transportation
11. Personal Supplies List
12. Personal Bag Organization
13. Address A to Z
C. Annual monthly calendar dividers
1. This is for you’re the forms that you want to monitor daily
2. It provides easy access and organization in the event you need to take a form that has the history to a medical appointment.
D. Section to hold all your forms: Have several blank copies available for a minimum of 1-2 weeks You can put each form set in a 3-hole ring plastic holder or with pockets for easy access.
1. Caregivers Daily Checklist
2. Daily Vital Record Keeping
3. Monitoring Log. Blood Pressure, Glucose, Other
4. Intake Log
5. Medical Occurrence Log
6. Personal Supplies fax/ call reorder form. Create a list of the product numbers, information and amount to recorder. The caregiver can simply check off which supplies are needed.
7. Chart Notes
8. Any other forms you have designed to best assist you.
9. Blank Note Paper for notes and daily instructions as needed