Recognising and Responding to Clinical Deterioration in an Aged Care Setting
WA DoH Framework Domain Level: Foundation
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Education DETAILS
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Fee: Free
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Level: Foundation
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Delivery Mode: Webinar
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Duration: 1 hour
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Certificate: Yes
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CPD: 1 hour
EDUCATION overview
Aged care staff play a vital role in supporting residents in their later years. Recognising and responding to deterioration in a resident’s condition is an essential clinical skill that enables clear communication with families, carers, and staff.
Accurately identifying deterioration ensures that residents receive high-quality, person-centred care while enabling staff to provide support aligned with a resident’s values, preferences, and goals.
Timely recognition and response minimise unnecessary escalation and transitions from the preferred place of care, ensure that medications are appropriately prescribed and deprescribed, inform families about care and symptoms, and prevent avoidable hospitalisations or medical interventions.
Accurately identifying deterioration ensures that residents receive high-quality, person-centred care while enabling staff to provide support aligned with a resident’s values, preferences, and goals.
Timely recognition and response minimise unnecessary escalation and transitions from the preferred place of care, ensure that medications are appropriately prescribed and deprescribed, inform families about care and symptoms, and prevent avoidable hospitalisations or medical interventions.
learning outcomes
- Identify and recognise stages of resident deterioration.
- Identify appropriate palliative and end of life care tools.
- Identify actions required to prepare the home, staff, resident, and family for stages of deterioration, advancing disease, increasing decline, last days of life and terminal phase.
target audience
Health
Students, Nurse Assistants, Enrolled Nurses,
Registered Nurses, Clinical Nurses, Nurse Managers, Nurse Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, Social Work, Facility Managers.
