Courses offered:

• Moving and Handling Traning
  • Patient Handling Training Course (1 Day)
  • Moving and Handling 5 Day Train the Trainer
  • Moving and Handling 2 Day Train the Trainer Update
  • Moving and Handling of Children
  • Hoist Training for Healthcare Workers
  • Object Handling Key Persons
• Care Skills Training
  • Infection Control
  • Essential Drug Administration
  • Nutritional Awareness
  • Diabetes Awareness
  • Urinary Catheter Care
• Promoting Clients Independence and Safety
  • Mobility Awareness
  • Falls Awareness Training
• Risk Management
  • Risk Assessment and General Health and Safety for Carers
  • Display Screen Assessments and Training

Falls Awareness Training

Aims

• Ensure attendees receive appropriate information relating to local Falls Management Programmes, Protocols and Referral Systems/Forms
• Provision of practical solutions to Falls Management
• Gain an understanding of factors that increase the risks of falls, including environmental, physiological, psychological and lifestyle factors

Session Content

• How Falls Affect the Individual
  • Physical
  • Psychological
  • Financial
  • Social
• The demands upon services during the acute, treatment, rehabilitation and chronic phase of falls and injuries from falls
• Where falls commonly occur within the home, place of care or out doors
• Risk Factors associated with Falls
  • Environmental
  • Physical
  • Behavioural
• Managing Falls
  • The individual
  • Support network
  • Family
  • Emergency Services
  • Telecare Services
  • Practical steps to helping individuals who are uninjured from the floor
  • Equipment available to assist individuals from the floor
• The Role of Falls Management Groups
  • Reporting and referral systems