Instructions

• Before this huddle, print some point of care assessment cards and posters to give to staff and make available in staff areas.
• Start the huddle by passing out the point of care assessment cards to your staff and review the steps of a point of care assessment. If possible, show the group the It Could Happen to You video, which covers the point of care
  assessment in detail. Next, read the scenario out loud and, with the point of care assessment in mind, use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion.

Notes to the huddle leader

• A point of care assessment should be done by all staff­ prior to and while interacting with a person in care.
• Consider asking sta­ff to share a real-life scenario where they changed what they were going to do in response to completing a point of care assessment.

Scenario

• Mr. H has dementia and a history of aggression. Yesterday evening, he was in his bed and became agitated with the care worker who was helping to settle him in for the night. He began yelling and threw his cup of water at the care worker.
• Today, a di­fferent care worker is about to enter his room to get him ready for breakfast.