Risk Management
Close Encounters of the Aggressive Kind
 
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Occupational Stress in Palliative Care
This chapter explores the search for meaning in palliative caregivers, the ‘wounded healer’, sources of suffering in clinical work and coping strategies...
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Legal Aspects of Errors and Open Disclosure in Health Care
This lecture addresses the ethical and legal issues associated with errors in health care.
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Falls (aged care)
Falls among people over 65 are common. However, recent developments in research and practice indicate that a range of actions can be effective in reducing falls‐related injuries among older people...
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Aggression
Aggressive behaviour often occurs in association with dementia. This chapter addresses aggression and allows readers to understand people who are supposed to be ‘aggressive’, assess their behaviour and attempt to avoid and manage it...
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Adolescent Mental Health - Television Risks, Cyberspace Mischief and Addictions - Part 2
Speaker: John Schwartz
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication at Swinburne University where his teaching commitments include 'Popular Culture'. Over the years, John has been interviewed on radio of TV about various aspects of pop culture.
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Professional Communication
This chapter aims to instruct nurses on how to effectively communicate verbally and through documentation including the codes of professional practice...
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Dealing with Unhelpful Behaviour
It is difficult to manage workers in health-care settings. Stress caused by unsociable working hours together with the emotionally, physically and intellectually draining nature of clinical-care delivery contribute to ‘unhelpful’ behaviour...
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An Overview of Medications Used in Psychiatry
Overview of psychotropic medications, the indications for their use and how they work. The side effects and complications for anti-psychotic medications.
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Substances Used by Nurses and the Consequences of this Behaviour
This lecture discusses what you should do when a colleague has a problem with alcohol or other drugs in your workplace.
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Environment
This chapter examines the preparation and maintenance of resident care equipment, the type of supplies and equipment that staff members use in resident care, the effectiveness of environmental services and the way in which waste disposal is managed...
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Conducting Successful Staff Support Sessions
Caring for cancer patients can often be a confronting experience for nurses and other health care professionals. To ensure that the health care staff have sufficient support, this fast fact sheet provides a number of guidelines in establishing staff suppo
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Alcohol and Other Drug Issues in Contemporary Australia
The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with an overview of alcohol and other drug use in Australia, and to present the relationship alcohol and other drug use has to men's health...
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Occupational Health and Safety
Elderly people are highly vulnerable to hazards and risks because they are often unable to protect themselves. Aged‐care nurses therefore must be responsible for safety issues within their own workplaces to protect themselves and those within their care..
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Restraint (in regard to dementia)
The use of restraint is a contentious and emotive issue. The premise of this chapter is that the effects of restraint should largely be seen as adverse. It also addresses what is meant by restraint, why it is used, and the people who are restrained...
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Incident Reports
The reporting of incidents is a vitally important aspect of nursing documentation. This chapter guides nurses on how to accurately report an incidence and to ensure a higher level of safety for both staff and residents in an aged care facility...
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Occupational Health and Safety
Nursing is a profession that focuses on providing the best possible care to patients within the restrictions of the resources provided. To deliver this care, nurses are sometimes pushed beyond their physical and mental limits..
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Adolescent Mental Health - Let's Party Till We Drop
Let's Party Till We Drop. Adolescent boys tend to take excessive risks when they are actively involved in the persuasive party culture.
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Residents
This chapter begins by presenting general preventative strategies and concludes with information about specific infectious agents commonly encountered in aged care facilities...
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An Overview of Substance Abuse
An overview of the impact of substance abuse including the common drugs used. It includes an exploration of the physical impact of these drugs along with the social implications of drug abuse.
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