What does 5.24-5.26 require?

Services caring for people at risk of falling must have guideline-based systems for preventing falls, limiting harm when they happen and managing patients afterwards, must make equipment and aids available to keep people mobile safely, and clinicians must tell patients and families how to cut the risk.

Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition 5.24-5.26: Falls systems consistent with best-practice guidelines cover prevention, minimising harm and post-fall management, equipment and tools promote safe mobility, and patients, carers and families receive information on reducing falls risk

Other controls in Standard 5: Comprehensive Care – Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition

5.01-5.06 Governance, quality improvement and consumer partnership systems are applied to comprehensive care; systems support clinicians to develop, document and communicate care plans, provide care in the right setting, refer specialist needs promptly and identify the accountable clinician; teamwork and roles are defined; and clinicians collaborate to plan and deliver care
5.07-5.13 Integrated, timely screening and assessment identify risks of harm and social circumstances, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status is routinely asked and recorded, advance care plans are supported, findings and alerts are documented, and shared decision making produces a comprehensive individualised plan with goals, support people, discharge planning from the start, referral and evidence-based care
5.14-5.20 Care is delivered, monitored and updated against the comprehensive care plan in partnership with patients, carers and families, and end-of-life care follows the National Consensus Statement: patients at the end of life are identified, specialist palliative care advice is accessible, advance care plans are received and recorded, the workforce is supervised and supported, end-of-life care is reviewed against goals, and shared decisions are supported
5.21-5.23 Pressure injury prevention and wound management systems follow best-practice guidelines, clinicians inspect skin of at-risk patients in best-practice time frames, patients and families receive prevention information, and equipment and products are used in line with the guidelines
5.27-5.28 Overnight services have food and fluid preparation and distribution systems with evidence-based nutrition care plans, and the workforce uses them to meet nutritional needs, monitor at-risk patients, provide nutritional support and assist patients to eat and drink
5.29-5.30 A system for caring for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium incorporates best-practice recognition, prevention, treatment and management including the Delirium Clinical Care Standard, manages antipsychotic and psychoactive medicines per best practice and legislation, and clinicians use it with patients, carers and families to individualise care and minimise distress
5.31-5.32 Systems support collaboration with patients, carers and families to identify risk of self-harm and suicide and respond safely and effectively to distressed patients, and follow-up arrangements are developed, communicated and implemented for people who have self-harmed or reported suicidal thoughts
5.33-5.36 Situations that may precipitate aggression are identified and mitigated, patients at risk of aggression or violence are identified with de-escalation and safe management in collaboration with patients, carers and families, and restraint and seclusion where clinically necessary and lawful are minimised and where possible eliminated, governed under legislation and reported to the governing body

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MCP endpoint All Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition controls