Morning care is a name for what nurses do for patients in the morning. This includes activities such as brushing the patients' teeth, giving them a bath, taking their temperature, checking equipment, and replenishing IV bags. The arrival of a nurse for morning care can be both a source of hope and dread, depending on what a patient is sick from. It helps refresh the patient and provides general comfort.
It can also be commonly named and utilized in nursing homes or facilities that care for the elderly. Most morning care duties are also known as activities of daily living (ADL's) and are mostly performed by PSW's (personal support workers) and are performed before breakfast. These duties include:
- Mouth care (brushing teeth/denture care)
- toiletting
- washing face
- getting dressed
- brushing hair
Famous quotes containing the words morning and/or care:
“All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner and supper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)