Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Understand the enormity of falls as a serious risk to health and wellbeing of residents in care settings
- Discuss NICE guidelines relating to falls
- List common causes of falls and their consequences
- Describe the elements of a falls risk assessment
- Identify interventions to lower the risk and prevent falls occurring
- Understand the need to manage health and safety risk
- Discuss management of residents that have fallen
Course content
- Fall facts
- Causes and consequences
- Falls risk assessment
- History of falls
- Markers of frailty
- Gait and balance
- Falls risk assessment
- Interventions
- Strength and balance training
- Home hazard assessment
- Vision assessment
- Medications
- Acute illness
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Standing safely
- Chronic illness
- Continence problems
- Footwear
- Nutrition
- Risk taking behaviour
- Fear of falling
- Exercise
- Safer environment
- Equipment and bedrails
- Technology
- Education and encouragement
- High risk care environment
- Care setting audits
- Interventions not recommended
- Management of a fall
