Topics Covered in the Course
As you explore the course, you will meet and learn with other nurses who want to excel in their aged care roles and clinical risk management, discussing and exploring topics such as:
What is Clinical Risk Management in Aged Care?
- Defining risk management in Australia
- Relating clinical risk management to clinical governance
- Exploring best practice frameworks
- Practical risk assessment processes
- Learn to analyse and evaluate risks in a repeatable way
- Case scenarios and managing risks
- Risk assessment in context
How Do Your Legislative Requirements & Duty of Care Relate to Clinical Risk Management?
- Revise your professional imperatives and standards as a nurse and how it relates to effective clinical risk management
- Highlighted relevant legislation and relation to the Aged Care Quality Standards
- Open disclosure
- Balancing Duty of Care and a resident's Dignity of Risk
- Dignity of Risk scenarios
How Can You Effectively Undertake Risk Identification?
- Introduction to responding to risks in an aged care workplace
- ICO and the 5 Ws
- Proactive risk management
- Reactive risk management
How Should You Analyse and Evaluate Risk?
- Calculating potential risks against a best practice framework
- Evaluating risks and the options of action that can be taken
What Mitigation Strategies (Responding to Risks) Should You Use and When?
- Introduction to different risk management strategies
- Swiss cheese theory
- Risk register
- Reactive risk management scenarios
- Proactive risk management scenarios
Why is Monitoring & Reporting a Problem?
- Best approaches for a reporting and monitoring cycle
How Can You Make Your Workplace Take on Risk or Improve their Current Risk Management Strategies?
- Cotters Principles and change management strategies
Aboutour Subject Matter Experts
Amanda Ginger
Co-founder of Quality Manager Network Australasia, National Accreditation Manager
Amanda has over 15 years' experience in quality and management roles in healthcare. She has enjoyed roles in aged care, medical and surgical, mental health, drug and alcohol, and justice health across 2 states. She is currently the National Accreditation Manager for one of Australia's leading private hospital groups and is passionate about engaging with clinicians at the coalface to improve patient outcomes. She also works with 2 accreditation agencies as an assessor.
Clare Cameron
Quality and Compliance Manager, Residential Aged Care
Clare is currently the Quality and Compliance Manager for a not for profit aged care provider. Clare has worked in aged care quality and compliance space for over 14 years. She holds a Masters in Health Management, Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies and a Bachelor of Nursing degree from Queensland University of Technology. She is a passionate aged care advocate and committed to advancing the quality of aged care to ensure residents are enabled to live their best lives.
Linda Starr
Associate Professor at Flinders University, PhD in Elder Abuse, Ausmed Board Member
Dr Linda Starr has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in general, mental health nursing, law, education and a PhD in legal issues in elder abuse. Linda has extensive experience as an RN in metropolitan and rural locations, in general nursing, mental health, forensic health, aged care and management. She is chair of the SA Board of Nursing and Midwifery, fellow of the College of Nursing Australia, foundation president of the Australian Forensic Nurses Association, member on the School of Health Academic Advisory Board for Open Colleges and the international member on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Forensic Nursing.
AboutEduvidd
Eduvidd is an online CPD platform for all healthcare professionals, with a focus on our front-line. Our mission is to make learning in healthcare more engaging and effective, to bring about better staff and patient outcomes across the world. We ensure that our content is relevant, evidence-based and up to date with our Education Steering Committee and by quantitatively measuring whether our education has effective and positive clinical outcomes.
All clinical risk management content contained within this course is in line with the following standards and frameworks:
- Aged Care Quality Standards (Quality Standards) (2019)
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
- The National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards, Action 1.10, Risk Management
- Clinical Risk ManagementGuidelines for theWestern AustralianHealth System
- Australian Standards - Risk Management Guidelines -AS ISO 31000:2018
