Person-centred means focusing on what makes every resident unique, discovering what's important to them, and putting their needs first. But to do this, you have to understand those needs.
TENA SmartCare Identifi™ is a digital solution designed to help carry out an accurate continence assessment. This assessment provides professional caregivers with the information they need to truly understand the individual challenges each resident is facing.
With TENA SmartCare Identifi as part of your continence assessment, your residents will benefit from a higher standard of person-centred care. Your nursing home will also benefit as TENA SmartCare Identifi is proven to help create greater value - from resident wellbeing and staff satisfaction to a more efficient use of time and resources and greater environmental sustainability.
TENA SmartCare Identifi discreetly monitors a resident's voiding habits over a continuous 72-hour period. As it does this, it generates a detailed voiding report unique to the resident. The information in the report is then used to create a person-centred care plan that includes:
With new TENA Solutions, we have developed a comprehensive assortment that includes our ProSkin absorbent and skin care products, TENA tools, training and support plus our latest groundbreaking TENA SmartCare digital solutions - TENA SmartCare Identifi and TENA SmartCare Change Indicator.
This unique assortment is specifically designed to optimize the continence care pathway and further enhance person-centred care. Combining our assortment with a person-centred care approach will deliver the greatest value for your residents, staff, nursing home and the environment.
At TENA, we want to help nursing homes work in a more sustainable way. Combining a person-centred care approach with TENA products, TENA tools and TENA SmartCare digital solutions can make a real difference when it comes to the environment. TENA SmartCare Identifi is a key part of this approach.
Using TENA SmartCare Identifi as part of your assessment will help reduce leakages. This means fewer products used, less waste and fewer deliveries - as well as less CO2 in use. Fewer leakages also means less laundry - both washing and drying - and lower energy consumption.
With solutions like TENA SmartCare Identifi, and our sustainability programs, we can help care for our planet as well as care for your residents.
* ARCTICC study on TENA SmartCare Identifi by University of Alberta, Canada, 2018 - data on file, submitted for peer reviewed publication.
** ARCTICC study on TENA SmartCare Identifi by University of Alberta, Canada, 2018 - data on file, submitted for peer reviewed publication.
*** "Carbon footprint in use" includes the carbon footprint of both the absorbent products and laundry due to leakages, in delivering Toileting & Containment Care. Result is based on a clinical trial (data on file/publication link) and a Life Cycle Assessment performed by Essity and third-party reviewed. Assumptions on day- and nighttime leakage, giving different laundry volumes, were based on internal Essity data on file. Absorbent product environmental impact was based on raw material acquisition, production, transport and waste handling.
**** "Carbon footprint in use" includes the carbon footprint of both the absorbent products and laundry due to leakages, in delivering Toileting & Containment Care. Result is based on a clinical trial (data on file/publication link) and a Life Cycle Assessment performed by Essity and third-party reviewed, showing a 15% reduction. Assumptions on day- and nighttime leakage, resulting in different laundry volumes, were based on internal Essity data on file. Absorbent product environmental impact was based on raw material acquisition, production, transport and waste handling.
