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Falls education for practitioners
— auditing a three-tier learning approach | | Author(s) | Eileen Mitchell, Helen Lawes |
| Journal title | Nursing Older People, vol 20, no 1, February 2008 |
| Pages | pp 27-30 |
| Source | http://www.nursingolderpeople.co.uk |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Training [welfare work] ; Medical workers ; Projects ; West Dorset. |
| Annotation | In line with National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines (2004), practitioners in West Dorset are developing and maintaining their basic professional competence in falls assessment and prevention. Local 'falls champions' have been appointed to assist in the education of all staff who work in older people's services, in order to raise awareness and promote best practice. A three-tier style of education has been developed, to allow staff to learn skills of assessment and intervention in relation to falls prevention. Evaluation over a two-year period clearly demonstrates how primary care trust staff are beginning to meet the requirements of the NICE recommendation on 'education and information-giving', while choosing their own style of learning. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080204203 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: QW: QT: 3E: 8DOA |
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