Personal Care

  • Author: L Kelly
  • Level: 3
  • Study time: 2 hours, 30 mins
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Lesson series
Providing personal care is about maintaining dignity, comfort, and wellbeing. This course covers essential skills like showering, dressing, oral hygiene, and supporting mobility. Learn how to observe, record, and communicate effectively while ensuring safety and respect for personal preferences. Ideal for caregivers and support workers looking to develop confidence in delivering quality care with professionalism and empathy.
  • Video time: 2 hours, 30 mins
  • Quiz: 1
  • Assessment: 1
Lesson series

Why this course is important?


Personal care goes beyond physical tasks—it’s about preserving dignity and promoting independence. This course covers key areas, including bathing, oral hygiene, toileting, and assisting with mobility aids. You’ll learn safe and respectful care techniques, how to observe and report changes, and best practices for maintaining hygiene. Whether working in aged care, disability support, or home care, these skills are essential for quality, person-centred support.
Meet the instructor

Leigh Kelly

Leigh Kelly is a New Zealand Registered Nurse who has been working with the elderly and disabled since 1974. Her ADN focused on young physically disabled.

She has been a Charge Nurse at Kenepuru and Greenlane Hospitals Continuing Care Wards, owned her own dementia specific rest home and worked and managed rest homes.

She also has vast experience as a RN in continuing care facilities.
Patrick Jones - Course author