SIRS Obligations for In-Home Care Workers

Learn what types of incidents to report and how to identify them to improve the quality of aged care services through awareness and prompt reporting.

Category
Aged Care (in-home care)
Author
Forget Me Not
Endorser
Obvious Choice

Description

In-home care providers have a responsibility to report serious incidents to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission under the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS). This question set will help them, as a carer, learn what types of incidents they need to report and how to identify them. They'll improve the quality of aged care services by being aware of the serious incidents and reporting them promptly.

Learning Objective

By completion of this question set, learners will be able to:

  • Practise serious incident identification and reporting.
  • Classify different types of serious incidents.
  • Implement prevention strategies for serious incidents.

Questions

  1. Unreasonable use of force
  2. Preventing psychological abuse
  3. Inappropriate sexual contact
  4. Unexpected death
  5. Missing older Australian
  6. Neglect
  7. Restrictive practices
  8. Stealing or financial coercion
  9. What type of incident?
  10. What to report?
SIRS Obligations for In-Home Care Workers

SIRS Obligations for In-Home Care Workers

Learn what types of incidents to report and how to identify them to improve the quality of aged care services through awareness and prompt reporting.

Category
Aged Care (in-home care)
Audiance
Personal Care Worker (Community)
Endorser
Obvious Choice
Author
Forget Me Not
Audio Support
Yes
No
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20-minute session
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