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Epilepsy specialist nursing care
Our highly experienced nursing staff are specialists in epilepsy and learning disability care. They provide a proactive service to clients to ensure any potential health risks are minimised.
Our epilepsy specialist nurses:
- Work with relatives to discuss changes to medication
- Run rapid access clinics for clients
- Treat acute problems
- Arrange investigations, such as EEG
- Assess the impact of learning disabilities and epilepsy on behaviour management
- Maintain close relationships with the clients’ epilepsy consultants
- Train care staff
In addition, we have a team of first line nurses, who are also epilepsy specialist nurses, and whose primary role is supporting clients in their own homes to manage health issues. Each care home has a designated first line nurse to:
- Provide intermediate care 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year
- Give emergency intervention for seizure control and status epilepticus
- Attend GP clinics with clients and carers
- Attend dietician clinics with clients and carers
- Organise and attend regular reviews with the client and their epilepsy consultant
- Ensure drug changes are carried through post review
- Work closely with the senior house officers (doctors)
- Treat minor injuries, illness and non-emergencies (eg follow-up dressings and observations)
- Liaise closely with local services to give expert advice in areas such as tissue viability
- Advise care staff on all aspects of clients’ health care
As well as high quality nursing care, clients have emergency access to the renowned Sir William Gowers Assessment Centre which is situated on the Chalfont site. Our epilepsy care homes are the only care homes in the country to provide emergency admission to a national epilepsy assessment and treatment centre.
Care homes with nursing need
In our purpose built care home with nursing need (Queen Elizabeth House), our clients have complex epilepsy as well as general health needs which require monitoring and observing, we have a registered nurse on duty at all times. In these homes we provide a balance between social and medical care.
