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This document provides a sensory impairment care plan for patients with vision or hearing loss. It includes an assessment section to document the type and level of a patient's visual or hearing impairment. Details are collected on whether the patient requires glasses, hearing aids, or other aids. The level of independence is also assessed, such as ability to read, identify people, navigate, and feed themselves. The care plan specifies how the patient's needs will be checked daily, including reminders to ask about any additional sight or hearing needs and ensure communication aids are in place.

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Sensory Impairment Care Plan Docx 1

This document provides a sensory impairment care plan for patients with vision or hearing loss. It includes an assessment section to document the type and level of a patient's visual or hearing impairment. Details are collected on whether the patient requires glasses, hearing aids, or other aids. The level of independence is also assessed, such as ability to read, identify people, navigate, and feed themselves. The care plan specifies how the patient's needs will be checked daily, including reminders to ask about any additional sight or hearing needs and ensure communication aids are in place.

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Sensory Impairment Care Plan

To be kept with Nursing Core Notes at the foot of patient’s Patient label here
bed if vision or hearing problems identified.

Assessment
To be completed by nurse in discussed with patient / carer
Note that patients commonly have BOTH sight and hearing loss, especially if they are older.

Visual impairment Hearing impairment or deafness


Blindness or partial sight? Hearing abilities
 Has no useful vision  Moderate hearing impairment - requires clear
 Has limited vision speech

Type of visual impairment  Significant hearing impairment


Requires hearing aid and clear speech
 Central vision impairment
Poor facial recognition  Major hearing impairment
 Peripheral (side) vision impairment Unable to hear speech
Increased risk of falls  Deaf and blind
 Generalised visual impairment No useful vision and unable to hear speech.
This will require specialist advice about
Glasses communication and assessing needs:
 Does not use glasses Contact Sense 0300 330 9256.
Some impairments not helped by glasses
Hearing aids / communication methods
 Requires glasses for reading
 Does not use hearing aids
 Requires glasses for distance vision
 Uses hearing aid in left ear
Visual abilities
 Uses hearing aid in right ear
 Cannot read regular print (Consent forms etc)
 Cannot identify presence & role of staff at 3 m  Uses hearing aids in both ears
 Cannot facially identify staff members at 3 m  Uses BSL (British Sign Language)
 Cannot facially identify staff members at 1 m  Uses other sign language
 Is troubled by too much light  Uses Deaf/ Blind Manual Alphabet
Consider alternative bed location, e.g. away i.e. communication spelt out on patient’s palm
from windows
For emergency deafness or deafblindness
Eating and drinking interpreters contact National Registers of
 Cannot eat independently Communication Professionals www.nrcpd.org.uk
 Cannot take own medication
 Cannot pour own water / locate beaker
Level of independence
 Cannot locate and switch on / off own light
 Cannot locate and use assistance call button
 Cannot find way to toilet independently

Does patient consent to Vision Impairment or Hearing Impairment symbol placed above bed? Yes No
Now complete the first section overleaf “THIS PATIENT IS ASSESSED AS . . .” based on this assessment.

Sensory Impairment - Care Plan docx.docx © Richard Cox / Seeing Sense 2016 Revised 08 January 2018
Sensory Impairment Daily check
This patient is assessed as  Partially Sighted  Blind  Hearing Impaired  Deaf (see details overleaf)

Date Time Can the patient . . . Patient Visual Comments Sign


asked impairment
Locate Insert Locate Understand Locate Locate Feed
about any or hearing
glasses? hearing call clear drinks? food? self?
other sight impairment
aids? button? speech?
or hearing symbol visible
needs? above bed?

Sensory Impairment - Care Plan docx.docx Page 2 of 2 Revised 08 January 2018

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