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How you ensure that communication works in a crisis
Many municipalities and regions systematically work to detect deterioration in a citizen early, through what is called TOBS — Early Detection of Emerging Disease. As a social and health assistant, you are a central part of that effort.
TOBS is a tool for systematic and objective observation of vital values: pulse consciousness level temperature respiration and systolic blood pressure. Municipalities were via health agreements required to implement early detection of beginning illness and systematic registration of observations of resident's everyday. Method is performed by nurses and health assistants
It is often the social and health helper or assistant who first notices small changes in the citizen's everyday life — that someone eats less, or seems more lethargic than normal. Some municipalities work with the connection between TOBS and change forms, which support the frontline staff's clinical assessment. Then a nurse or assistant makes an actual TOBS scoring.
The Patient Safety Authority has pointed out that it is important to respond early to sudden loss of function or impaired general condition in the elderly. Early detection can help prevent deterioration, illness and reduced functional ability, and when successful, it can help the citizen avoid hospitalization, deterioration and premature death.
“It is rarely the big dramatic signs that save lives – it is that someone noticed the small difference from yesterday.”