Clinical Management and Governance Essentials for Homecare Masterclass

At the conclusion of this topic, participants will be able to:

• Understand the current context of in home care
• Understand fundamentals of clinical governance frameworks 
• Understand and articulate high impact risks, in particular risks identified through the Aged Care Quality Standards – Standard 3b. 
• Understand their role in ensuring that harm to the consumer is minimised and a culture of quality and safety drives consumer experience. 
• Understand  the Standards for Nursing Practice, The ICN Code of Ethical Conduct, The role, responsibilities and scope of practice of key clinical staff including Registered Nurses 
• Understand the Aged Care Code of Conduct and the Aged Care Charter of Rights
• Oversee clinical performance and support clinical improvement opportunities using evidence based practice
• Develop and implement care plans in line with the Aged Care Quality Standards – using dignity of risk to underpin care planning
• Facilitate consumer case conferences
• Ensure that consumer goals, needs and preferences drive care and consumer experience

At the conclusion of this topic, participants will be able to:

• Dignity of Risk
• Deteriorating consumer
• Restrictive practice & Deprescribing of psychotropic medications
• Clinical Governance in the home care context
• Care and Service Planning,including high impact risk
• Identify potential gaps in policy and procedures relating to high impact risks in the home environment
• Five key areas of risk for Home Care
• Understand key elements of policies and processes

At the conclusion of this topic, participants will be able to: 

• Complete incident investigations and risk assessments
• Build on high impact risk / high prevalence risk to consider adverse events, importance of investigation and open disclosure
• Understand key elements of incident investigation including RCA’s and strategies to minimise recurrence of incidence
• Understand compulsory reporting pathways 
• Identify trends and refine evidence based clinical practice to improve consumer outcomes
• Understand what  a good plan for continuous improvement (PCI)  looks like
• Identify the key items that need to be included in a PCI
• Understand how to use data and audit results to drive continuous improvement and improve consumer experience
• Review and evaluate quality activity outcomes
• How to connect with the PCI to self assessments for accreditation

At the conclusion of this topic, participants will be able to: 

• Develop an agenda and terms of reference for meetings
• Conduct clinical meetings effectively
• Effectively document minutes and actions arising from the meeting
• Demonstrate improvement and actions as meeting outcomes
• Build the PCI – structure connected to governance framework
• Hold  teams and individuals to account
• Understand their impact as a leader – what does their leadership style and behaviour say?
• Apply rostering principles for safe and quality care
• Understanding the changing regulatory environment – speed and depth of regulatory change
• Facilitate legislative and regulative change in a contemporaneous manner
• Preparing for changes to the Aged Care Standards