Training Manuals & Other Products

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Folio

This folio provides you with a means of keeping your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities together and includes:

• A printed tear off pad so you may detail each learning activity attended which is the documentation required by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
• Each page prompts you to complete your learning goals, the full details of the activity and your evaluation and reflection
• Full directions for use
• Sample of goal setting
• Samples of reflection/evaluation of activities
• An area to store all your Certificates of Attendance
• Suggestions and samples for developing a yearly learning plan using the National Competency Standards for the Registered or Enrolled Nurse, as per the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

Standardized Mini Mental Status Examination (Molloy et al, 1991)

Age Concern Pty Ltd has been given the exclusive licence to distribute authorised copies of the Standardized Mini Mental Status Examination (Molloy et al, 1991) in Australia. Organisations that use the authorised copies of the SMMSE are not in breach of any copyright laws.

One of the Directors of Nursing who continues to use the Standardized Mini Mental Status Examination (Molloy et al, 1991) as well as the ACFI tools states:

“I can unequivocally guarantee the clinical and fiscal integrity of our care plans when developed from the base data of the complete and correctly administered SMMSE. My professional and financial decision is that we will continue to use the SMMSE for care”. Mary Anne Edwards - Director of Care & Administrator.

Why continue to use the SMMSE with ACFI?

• It is concise and provides the foundation for our care planning
• Data is easily extrapolated for most ADL and social activity care planning
• Time is money and it is easily converted to the PAS questions

Purchase authorised copies of the Standardized Mini Mental Status Examination to optimise care and funding.

• *There is a minimum order requirement of 5 copies per funded bed per 12 months
• ^The purchase of the Care Planning and Funding from the SMMSE (Mellor, revised 2008) is an additional requirement. Question by question, this paper identifies care strategies when the resident is not able to correctly respond.
• The authorised copies will bear the name of the facility.
• Each order will include one copy of the correct delivery and scoring directions, and each order includes on-going free telephone support.

Recognising and Managing Alzheimer's Type Dementia

This manual is a fully self-contained lecture on Alzheimer's type dementia, and includes information on:

• Symptom presentation
• Stages
• Behaviours
• Appropriate activities

...plus everything you need to conduct a successful training session:

• Presentation tips
• What to say with each of the overheads
• Hardcopies of the overheads
• Exercises to include
• Hand-outs for the participants

Authors: Marianne Smith R.N., MS., Kathleen Buckwalter R.N., Ph.D., Susan Mitchell, MA., Published by Abbe Inc.

Assessment and Management of Aggressive Behaviours

This manual is a fully self-contained lecture on assessment and management of aggressive and acting out behaviours, which includes information on:

• The many variations of aggressive behaviours
• Assessment details
• Identifying triggers
• Setting goals

...plus everything you need to conduct a successful training session:

• Presentation tips
• What to say with each of the overheads
• Hardcopies of the overheads
• Exercises to include
• Hand-outs for the participants

Authors: Marianne Smith R.N., MS., Kathleen Buckwalter R.N., Ph.D., Susan Mitchell, MA., Published by Abbe Inc.

Rationalising & Professionalising Documentation - Part I

This session focuses on a number of recommendations from the nursing profession, the Department of Health and Ageing and legal writers.

On request this program is now being offered as one of two (2) training programs for self-delivery, facilitated by Prue Mellor RN GD (Geront) MN (Geront), Age Concern Pty Ltd

The facts may be confronting. If you want to achieve best (safe) practice in documentation, the recommendations may require significant changes in thinking and practice, leaderships skills are a must.

Legal and Professional Recommendations will be useful if you/your organisation:

• Writes a single piece of information on more than one document
• Uses words such as inappropriate, intrusive, aggressive, appears
• Still write reports at the end of the shift
• Have not recently reviewed the National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse and/or the National Competency Standards for the Enrolled Nurse.

At the completion of the session each participant will be able to:

• Document as per legal and professional recommendations
• List 15 words to be avoided when documenting
• Minimise documentation by reducing the episodes of duplication

The package includes:

• Powerpoint presentation (or hard copies of slides for overheads),
• Facilitator’s notes
• Participant handouts
• Guidelines for delivery
• References
• Licence to use the training program (with some limitations)

The session content can be adapted to specific audiences e.g. registered nurses, allied health staff, care workers or a mixed audience.

This program lays the foundation for the remainder of the Rationalising Documentation series.

Rationalising & Professionalising Documentation - Part II

Part two (2) focuses on nursing assessment requirements as indicated by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, the Department of Health and Ageing and the Agency.

Facilitated by Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipApplSci(Geront), (Geront), MRCNA, it builds on the first in the series Legal and Professional Recommendations, and is a must if any of the following occur at your facility:

• PCA’s and/or AIN’s assess high care residents
• You do not assess cognition within an hour of admission, but wait some days!
• Behaviour charts include words such as inappropriate, intrusive, aggressive
• Comprehension,understanding and cognition assessment is on more than one tool
• Assessment of residents takes place over set days

Includes some specifics on behaviour, pain, cognition assessment tools and processes to support funding claims and promote accreditation compliance.

The session content was developed for registered nurses. This program lays the foundation for the care planning session of the Rationalising Documentation series. This program lays the foundation for the remainder of the Rationalising Documentation series.

At the completion of the session each participant will be able to:

• Assess as per legal and professional recommendations
• Differentiate between subjective and objective data collection
• Minimise documentation by reducing duplication
• Analyse effectiveness of all assessment tools and processes especially pain, behaviours, falls risk and cognition
• Assess in a timely and professional manner to ensure effective care planning

The package includes:

• PowerPoint presentation (or hard copies for overheads),
• Facilitator’s script
• Participant handouts
• Licence to use the program (with some limitation)
• Guidelines for delivery
• References

Please contact us on 03 9576 7844 if you require further information on any of our manuals or other products.