Do your staff know how to prevent falls and pressure ulcers?

COURSE DETAILS

Falls & Pressure, Ulcer Prevention Training

Care home residents are 3 times more likely to fall than those living at home and they are 10 times more likely to sustain a significant injury as a result.

Pressure ulcers affect around 20% of people in nursing and care homes.

Do your staff know how to prevent falls and pressure ulcers?

This highly interactive course will give your staff more confidence in identifying and dealing with the risks associated with falls and pressure ulcers. We will help them develop a proactive approach to preventing falls and pressure ulcers

Led by highly experienced, senior specialist nurses.

Falls Prevention
Key Learning Objectives

  • Improve awareness of the importance of falls prevention
  • Gain an understanding of the modifiable risk factors contributing to falls
  • How to develop a proactive approach to preventing falls
  • The multifactorial falls assessment
  • How to develop more robust falls risk assessments and care plans
  • Analysis of falls and the importance of re- assessment

Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Key Learning Objectives

  • Risk assessment
  • Skin assessment & Care
  • Factors influencing pressure ulcer development/healing
  • Information reporting and safeguarding

To find out more about this course, CCG funding opportunities or to reserve a place please contact us:

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07012 399097

“Learned lots on the course itself and now looking forward to putting this into practice”

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