Preparing for SIRS and effective Incident Management in Home Care

Overview

This webinar will equip your organisation to plan and implement a robust incident management system that will provide a sound foundation for meeting the requirements related to SIRS.   This webinar will give you a comprehensive guide to what you need to have in place and how you can prepare the workforce and your systems for SIRS.    This webinar will also assist you to implement a system that provides useful data for quality improvement purposes.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar course, you will be able to:

• Describe an incident management system
• Plan and prepare for introduction of the SIRS in home care
• Assess your current Incident Management System (IMS) for compliance
• Implement risk assessment, preventing and managing incidents
• Implement a system to assess incidents, conduct analysis, trending of incidents for continuous improvement
• Determine appropriate corrective actions to minimise a reoccurrence
• Identify behavioural indicators and physical signs of abuse or mistreatment
• Integrate consumer/client choice, risk and mitigating or reducing the risk of incidents
• Determine staff roles and responsibilities regarding incident management and reporting
• Report and analyse incidents and ‘near misses’ to drive improvement and an improved culture