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Medical - Medical: Health Care | | Dutch term or phrase: slaapdienst | In the healthcare sector, workers are sometimes required to stay near a patient during night-time hours to provide help if needed. This is known as a 'slaapdienst'. What is the English term for this type of shift?
All input appreciated! |
| | | sleepover care (service) | Explanation:
a bit of digging unearthed this website
http://www.arcadiacare.com/hc-sleepover.html
and this Australian one www.hands.com.au/html/sleepover.html
SLEEPOVER CARE. In-home on-call service as required during the night.
Minimal assistance into/out of bed.
and
this NZ one ww.acc.org.nz/for-providers/contracts/assessment-services/ home-based-rehabilitation/index-4.html
Sleepover (night personal) care. •, Sleepover care refers to attendant care ... The need for sleepover care must be identified by an assessment.
and this UK one
www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/news/ releases/archive/july03/14c.htm
Heathlands sleepover service scoops health award
mother and father are cared for by staff of the sleepover service, added: “The
sleepover service at Heathlands not only provides first class care for my ..
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Note added at 9 mins (2004-02-04 21:02:09 GMT)
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You could call this sleepover duty along the lines of this website
www.clarechampion.ie/99/apr_strike.h
have been informed by the Board that because they are in breach of their employment
and this one
www.ana-nursing.co.uk/May2001.htm
Reminder for all night staff!!! All night duties are waking duties, unless you
are booked for a sleepover duty. Sleepover duties are NOT paid by the hour.
contract by withdrawing themselves from \"sleepover\" duty they will not be
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| Selected response from:
  Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Local time: 05:21
| Grading comment Thanks, Kate. This is exactly what I was looking for. Excellent stuff!
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