Course Overview

Showering and bathing is an activity of daily living essential to your client’s health and wellbeing. This Ausmed Training Module gives instructions on providing support with showering, bed-bathing and perineal hygiene for those in your care.

Topics

• The importance of activities of daily living
• Assisting clients with showering
• Bed-bathing
• Skin care after washing
• Perineal hygiene
• Promoting client choice and independence

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the importance of basic activities of daily living.
• Support a client with showering and bathing.

Target Audience

All healthcare staff providing support for activities of daily living in care and in the home.

Disclosure

No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.

Educators

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Peer reviewed by

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