How to Assist a Client with Personal Hygiene

Course overview

While oral and body hygiene and skin care is not generally a complicated task, it is nonetheless considered very important to a client’s sense of wellbeing and overall health. Certified nurse assistants must follow facility policy related to standard prevention when supporting clients with their personal hygiene, which contributes to a client’s sense of safety and security. Respecting client dignity and independence, and aiming at continuously improving their level of comfort is essential to good health outcomes when clients are unable to attend to their own basic care needs. It also helps clients to feel assured that their physical needs are being observed and that caregivers will appropriately respond to them.