The resources are designed to assist clinicians in consistently identifying patient risks, implementing evidence-based prevention strategies, and promoting person-centred care across healthcare settings.
What matters to me
- Achieving great person-centred care (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Health Care (ACSQHC))
- Shared decision-making (Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI))
Dementia and delirium
- Delirium brochure (ACI)
- Sunflower tool (ACI)
- A better way to care (ACSQHC)
- 24 hour behaviour monitoring record (PDF 179.4 KB)
- Assessment and management of behaviours and psychological symptoms associated with dementia NSW handbook (NSW Health)
Nutrition and hydration
Post-fall management
- Post falls management guide (PDF 94.6 KB)
- Post fall assessment and management guide (PDF 551.5 KB)
- Post fall assessment for injury guide (PDF 76.3 KB)
- Guide to conducting a post-fall huddle (PDF 181.8 KB)
- How to measure a postural blood pressure as part of a falls assessment poster (PDF 65.3 KB)
- Post fall for community care (PDF 1020.6 KB)
Pressure injury prevention during patient transport
- Help prevent pressure injuries – for patients on stretchers (PDF 108.4 KB)
- How to use the knee-bend stretcher mattress function and lateral wedge (PDF 424.2 KB)
- Transport stretcher mattress review (PDF 384.2 KB)
- How to review a transport stretcher mattress video
- Patient transport pressure injury prevention video
- Collaborative approach to preventing pressure injury video
Additional pressure injury prevention resources
- Pressure injury prevention equipment video
- Pressure Injury classification system presentation (PPT 8.9 MB)
- Pressure Injury classification – lanyard (PDF 59.5 KB)
Repositioning
Safe and early mobilisation
- Standardised mobility terminology guide (PDF 1.3 MB)
- Pointers for safe mobilisation (PDF 181.9 KB)
- Give it a Go! guide (PDF 409.1 KB)
- Give it a Go! education presentation (PDF 613.8 KB)
- Mobility guide (PDF 1.5 MB)
Toileting
- Skin assessment information for clinicians (PDF 385.9 KB)
- Skin assessment video
- Identification of risk factors, skin assessment and care plan review requirements by setting (PDF 73.0 KB)
- Pressure injury prevention strategies – information for clinicians (PDF 86.3 KB)
- Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis: Moving prevention forward (Wounds International)