Course Overview

This course has been developed to give home care workers an understanding of the need for a falls prevention program, as well as how to effectively establish and maintain a program.

Kineo is committed to improving the lives of people living in aged care. We focus on providing high-quality training to one of Australia’s busiest and fastest-growing sectors. We understand that the aged care sector is heavily compliance-driven and that staff require ongoing training to stay up to date with best practice.

Our aim is to provide training that is current, engaging, and practical—without overwhelming learners. We work with subject matter experts who are as passionate about delivering high-quality care to consumers as we are about delivering high-quality training.

This course can be used as standalone training or paired with existing aged care courses to provide a more holistic learning approach.

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

These courses focus on ensuring that the learner:

• is able to identify the steps and actions involved in implementing a falls prevention program
• understands the role of a multidisciplinary team in running a falls prevention program
• knows where to access falls prevention resources
• understands how to apply PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) cycles in falls prevention programs, and
• can evaluated 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