Discover our range of professional development individual units designed specifically for those working in the aged care sector, offering you the flexibility to choose the subjects from our range of aged care units that best meet your professional development needs and career goals.
Aged Care Professional Development Individual Units
Facilitate the Empowerment of Older People
Course Overview
In this short course, you will explore relationship building and learn how to provide support for older individuals, covering topics such as trust, approachability, and cultural sensitivity while addressing issues like abuse prevention, health promotion, and quality of life enhancement. Learn to navigate complex situations with empathy and professionalism, equipped with the knowledge and skills to promote well-being and advocate for the rights of older persons in various settings.
Topics:
- Develop relationships
- Gaining trust
- Approachability
- Body language
- Negative behaviours
- Cultural / social differences
- Confidentiality
- Dealing with family
- Identify physical disablers
- Quality of life
- Providing services
- Empower the older person
- Advocacy
- Barriers to listening
- Health and illness
- Work and leisure
- Foreseeable harm
- Negligence
- Policies and procedures
- Supporting rights
- Internal safeguards
- Financial or physical abuse
- Indications of abuse
- Reporting abuse
- Promote health and re-ablement
- Promote health lifestyle
- Utilise aids and modifications
- Mobility
- Preventing falls in home
Recognise and Report Risks of Falls
Course Overview
In this short course, you will explore fall prevention and care for older individuals, covering topics such as assessing fall risk, communication strategies, and recognising signs of potential harm, all while upholding privacy, dignity, and legal requirements. Gain the skills to consult effectively, assess risk factors, and create safe environments, ensuring the well-being and quality of life for older persons while adhering to ethical and legal standards.
Topics:
- Consult with the supervisor and the person
- Ascertain lifestyle, health and mobility factors
- Assess the risk of falls for person
- Good communication
- Factors that can increase fall risk
- Opportunities for the client and family to contribute and ask questions
- Recognising a person’s needs, issues and concerns
- Posture, gait and balance
- Referring to a supervisor when concerns for a person is outside scope of role
- Physical indicators
- Environmental factors
- Risk factors
- Reduced independence
- Social isolation and fear
- Common medical causes of falls
- Recognising the signs
- Effects of medication
- Effects of falls on people (physical, psychological and impact on family)
- Report on risk of falls
- Reporting requirements
- Duty of care
- Upholding the privacy and dignity of older people
- Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
- Disclosure of confidential information/ reporting
- Client consent
- Legal requirements
- Risk of harm
- Document control policy
- The ageing process
- Dignity of risk
- Human rights framework
- Work health and safety
- Policies and procedures
- Legal requirements
Provide Support to People Living With Dementia
Course Overview
In this short course, you will explore dementia types and symptoms, personalised care planning, identification of abuse, effective communication strategies, and maintaining client dignity and independence, all aimed at ensuring safety, comfort, and well-being while minimising the impact of challenging behaviours and providing support for caregivers and family members. Learn practical skills, documentation policies, and self-care strategies to manage stress levels and enhance the quality of care delivery.
Topics:
- Types of dementia
- Symptoms of dementia
- Curability of dementia
- Early indications
- Late stages of dementia
- Person-centred care
- Individualised plan
- Identify care needs
- Physical environment
- Identify physical and emotional abuse
- Communication strategies
- Safety and comfort of client
- Validation strategies
- Maintain dignity skills and health
- Maintain independence
- Personal hygiene
- Organise activities
- Support from family / carers
- Carer and home support services
- Behaviours of concern
- Triggers of behaviour
- Observation charts
- Minimise the impact of behaviours
- Incident reviews
- Record information
- Documentation policy
- Self-care strategies
- Stress levels
Work Effectively in Aged Care
Course Overview
In this short course, you will learn to identify job role requirements, comply with legal and professional conduct standards, communicate effectively, recognise signs of abuse, and maintain privacy and confidentiality. Learn how to employ self-care strategies to manage stress levels while delivering person-centred care in accordance with key philosophies and concepts in aged care. Gain practical skills in risk assessment, reportable incident handling, and navigating accreditation and funding systems within the aged care sector.
Topics:
- Identify own job role requirements
- Read job description
- Discuss, clarify and confirm role and expectations
- Tasks outside the scope of the worker’s role
- Referring work tasks
- Comply with professional conduct requirements
- Legal framework requirements
- Human rights framework
- Duty of care
- Cultural competence
- Restrictive practices
- Roles of interdisciplinary team members
- Communication and cooperating
- Terminology used in aged care
- Using and understanding applicable terminology
- Using digital terminology in aged care
- Identify tasks in individualised plans
- Support plans
- Person-centred communication techniques
- Seeking consent
- Recognising signs of abuse
- Risk areas for abuse and systemic issues
- Reporting abuse and neglect
- Aged care
- Priority 1 and 2 incidents
- Reportable incidents
- Maintaining workplace information
- Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
- Monitoring own stress levels
- Self-care strategies
- Seeking support
- Key philosophies and concepts in aged care
- Accreditation systems
- Funding systems
- Psychological disability
- Risk assessment framework
