Nursing Care

Nursing care department

24 hour specialised care is provided by professional nurses, staff nurses and trained care-givers.

Nursing and care-worker staff provides basic care such as bathing, feeding, oral hygiene and tending to minor illnesses such as influenza and common colds. Our residents are not able to dress, feed, bathe or toilet themselves – all these daily tasks have to be done for them by the Woodside care-givers, all of whom have received training in first aid and home based care.    

Our residents are taken to several other health practitioners for services we cannot provide ourselves, as follows

• Dental care – residents are taken to the Tygerberg Dental Faculty for dental assessments and treatments
• Re-boarding of medication – residents are taken to the nearest community health Centre’s for re-boarding of medication
• Doctor’s visits – residents are taken to private doctors (if on medical aid) and to community health centre’s (if not on medical aid

Woodside runs a feeding programme which was designed by a dietician – staff training was given to Woodside staff by a specialist from the Red Cross Children’s hospital.  Woodside residents have benefited greatly from the programme as Woodside staff exercised the required skills to feed them properly.  Because the quality of feeding has improved there has been an increase in the children’s immunity systems which in turn results in healthier children.  Training will continue and progress will be ongoing.