Carol Hucknall

Global Senior Medical Affairs Manager – Patient Handling and Hygiene, ARJO

Wellness in bathing for body and mind

Taking a bath is one of life’s simplest pleasures – a welcome timeout to unwind, relax and indulge. And it has long been known to have a positive impact not just on hygiene, but on many aspects of physical health, mental health and overall quality of life. For a resident living in long term care, maintaining personal hygiene habits established at home, such as having a bath, is an integral part of a person-centred care approach. Maintaining personal hygiene can contribute to over-all wellbeing - comfort, dignity and safety. This in turn can provide many benefits for caregivers and the facility.

This session will explore the daily challenges healthcare facilities face today. It will outline the many physical and cognitive benefits of warm water bathing for residents and identify effective bathing solutions which can also positively impact caregivers and facilities in terms of efficiency, safety and wellness.

Speaker Bio

Carol is a qualified nurse and Patient Handling Consultant by background, with extensive professional experience at strategic organisational, national and global levels, in both influencing and implementing evidence based safe patient handling and hygiene practices and promoting functional mobility.
She has held strategic Patient Handling advisor roles in the NHS and private practice for over 27 years including roles on the Executive board of National Back Exchange (professional membership association) between 2011 - 2017, including Chair, influencing practice and policy at a National strategic level through key stakeholders.

Her current role as Global Senior Medical Affairs Manager – Patient Handling and Hygiene, for Arjo, involves providing clinical expertise in strategy and product development processes, to support clinical usability and justification of customer value within patient handling and hygiene portfolios. She has responsibility for defining and creating relevant clinical assets and tools to support products and solutions with global and local stakeholders.

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