Choice and Supported Informed Decision Making

Date: Tuesday 23 January

Time: 1pm to 4pm SA | 1.30pm to 4.30pm VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS |12.30pm to 3.30pm QLD |12pm to 3pm NT | 10.30am to 1.30pm WA

Audience: Managers, Team Leaders, Nurses and Coordinators in Aged and Disability services

Presenter: Donny Raets from Preventing Harm Initiative

Do you know how to support informed decision making and what to document?

This course will show you how to support informed decision-making, the most effective risk management strategy for improving the person’s quality of life, and reducing the risk of complaints and non-compliance with Quality Standards

Course outcomes:

• Discover what supported decision making is and the benefits to the person, staff and organisations
• Gain awareness of legal and quality standard requirements
• Learn about a person’s rights to make decision
• Understand staff’s responsibilities Duty of Care when supporting choice
• Know what to consider if restricting a person’s choices when safeguarding
• Learn when the documentation of supported informed decision making is required and how it is used to defend Duty of Care and Quality Standard compliance
• Opportunity to discuss real cases of when to document informed decision making
• Practice case studies of documenting legally defensible supported informed decision making

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Notification of cancellation or transfer of registration must be by email to enquiry@acia.asn.au. No refund is available for any cancellations received five working days or less prior to the start date, however a substitute delegate is welcome. Please notify ACIA of any substitution as soon as possible. No refund or transfer will be given for non-attendance.