Category 1 – Acceptable Tasks

17.      Category 1 – Acceptable Tasks

17.1    These are the tasks falling within the normal range of activities undertaken by GCC care staff and their contracted providers as long as they have received the appropriate training. This training can be delivered to a group of people and the procedures issued on a generic basis. Staff must sign to say that they have received and understood their training. The trainer must also sign and date this.

17.2    GCC care staff or independent care provider staff are not permitted to pass on any training they have received for these tasks to other staff. Competence to complete these tasks must be re-assessed on an annual basis by the line manager or trainer, whoever is the most appropriate, and this should be recorded on the staff record. A review of the training needs of staff must take place whenever there is a change in circumstances or where there is concern expressed about the ability of the member of staff to perform a specific task.

17.3    Acceptable Care Tasks List

• Replacing a bag to an existing urethral or supra-public catheter. Emptying and measuring urine, if required
• Putting on penile sheaths and connecting them to urine bags
• Application of topical creams and ointments
• Administration of ear drops and eye drops
• Mouth care
• Fitting supports, artificial limbs, or braces
• Awareness of pressure care in relation to prevention and good practice
• Assisting with the cleaning of a supra-pubic catheter site
• Emptying, changing/replacing urostomy bags
• Emptying, changing/replacing colostomy bags
• Emptying, changing/replacing ileostomy bags