Course Overview

Welcome to the Implementing Falls Prevention Programs in Home Care course. This course has been designed to give you an understanding of why falls prevention programs are necessary, as well as what you can do to implement a falls prevention program in your workplace.

These courses feature:

• Rich and engaging animated content
• Self-reflection activities focused on generating printable takeaway documentation that can act as the basis of a falls prevention program in the learner’s workplace
• Key case studies detailing examples of organisational best practice
• Assessments targeting specific learning outcomes
• Numerous supplementary resources for continued program development

This course has been developed to ensure key staff in care organisations are ready to implement falls prevention programs and meet the requirements of:

Aged Care Quality Standard 3: Personal care and clinical care Aged Care Quality Standard 8: Organisational governance

Learning Outcomes

This course will prepare you to:

• be able to identify the steps and actions involved in implementing a falls prevention program
• understand the role of the multidisciplinary team
• know where to access falls prevention resources
• understand how to apply Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles in falls prevention programs, and
• outline how to evaluate falls prevention programs by measuring processes and outcomes.

Target Audience

This course is suitable for staff working in Australian aged home care.

This training is targeted at nominated falls prevention ‘program leads’ – staff with key responsibilities for managing and implementing control programs for a wider team. This may include: 

• Registered Nurses
• Enrolled Nurses
• facility managers
• community care managers
• quality and risk coordinators, and
• educators