Falls prevention cascade training resource
Suitable for
Exerienced Falls Prevention Practitioners in NHS, Social Care and Health and Extended Care settings.
Description
This resource will enable Falls Prevention Team members and advisors to cascade their knowledge and skills and to support staff working with older people who are at risk of falling across Health and Social Care settings.
The Training Resource explores the theory and practice of Falls Prevention strategies in line with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines and Recommendations.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of a training event using this resource, students will have:
- Identified why falls are a problem and explained some of the implications for care givers
- Distinguished between the different types of falls, understood risk factors and how these might affect individual service users
- Described an area of work and illustrated how they would ensure a safe environment
- Justified why it is important to use risk assessments
- Proposed an intervention for an individual service user
- Described the changes needed to help reduce risk in the current working environment
The learning outcomes for students attending a learning event using this
resource are linked to National Occupational Standards for the core
units of NVQ Levels 2 and 3 in Health and Social Care:
HSC42 – Contribute to the development and maintenance of healthy
and safe practices in the working environment
HSC45 – Develop
practices which promote choice, well-being and protection of all
individuals
HSC43 – Take responsibility for the continuing
professional development of self and others
HSC413 – Manage
requests for health and care services
HSC414 – Assess
individual needs and preferences
Summary of Content
- Falls: the Problem
- Causes of Falls
- Fall Prevention: maintaining a safe environment and safe care practices
- Assessment of the risk of falling
- Planning interventions to reduce falls
- Patient education
- Use of equipment and learning from a previous fall
Cost
£795 each with one hard copy of Trainer’s resource and CD for unlimited reproduction of participants materials in one care setting. All prices are subject to a charge of VAT at 17.5%.
** See our Train the Trainer workshop
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