eLearning: Managing risk, minimising restraint: Challenges, dilemmas and positive approaches for working with older people in care homes
Published: 2009
These elearning resources are freely available to all. They provide audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of managing risk and minimising restraint when working with older people in care homes.
The resources also support learning and teaching for the Health and Social Care Diploma, levels 3 and 4. You can see how the modules map across to the Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) by downloading the Managing risk, minimising restraint: QCF mapping level 3 and Managing risk, minimising restraint: QCF mapping level 4 documents.
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Exploring restraintAn interactive exploration of definitions, thoughts and ideas about the use of restraint and how to minimise it. |
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Decision making processesExploring approaches to communication, learning and development, and the care home environment to help minimise the use of restraint. |
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Creating a positive cultureExploring approaches to communication, learning and development, and the care home environment to help minimise the use of restraint. |
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Who they are suitable forOpen
These resources are suitable for staff working in care homes for older people. ‘Exploring restraint’ and ‘Decision making process’ are suitable for all; ‘Creating a positive culture’ is particularly suitable for managers and senior staff.
They may also be of interest to anyone involved in the support of older people in care homes, including health professionals, inspectors, and relatives.
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About the authorsOpen
Joanna Lenham
Joanna joined SCIE as a Practice Development Manager in 2006, and has worked on a variety of projects supporting workforce development and adult social care. She is currently involved in developing resources to support the care home sector. She is a qualified Social Worker, with a particular interest in the care and support of older people. Her work experience includes 10 years in Local Authority social work as both a Care Manager and Team Manager. She has also worked with adults with mental health problems and learning disabilities in supportive housing.
Catherine Ross
Catherine Ross is the deputy editor of the Journal of Dementia Care, and also works with a range of social care organisations as a freelance writer and editor. From 1995 to 2003, Catherine worked as a community-based social worker with adults and older people in a number of London boroughs, including a year in a specialist post working with people with young onset dementia. Prior to this she worked as a sessional music worker in a nursing home for six years.
Nadira Sharif
Nadira joined SCIE in 2004 as a Research Analyst with a special interest in older people’s issues. She has 15 years experience working in the voluntary sector with older people, in particular black and minority ethnic elders, and their carers. Her work ranged from providing welfare advice to supporting people to access health and social care provision as well as setting up services within the community. She was also responsible for managing and conducting research involving older people. At SCIE Nadira has co-authored both the systematic map report on BME elders and depression and the hospital discharge booklet for older people and commissioned work on BME older people.
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AcknowledgementsOpen
SCIE would like to thank the following people:
- Our peer reviewers: Sharon Blackburn, Roger Clough, Jo Moriarty and Tracy Paine
- Branch Hill House care home for allowing members of its staff to take part in our user testing trials
- Glendale Residential Home and Arbrook House Nursing Home for allowing us to visit and discuss this work with them, and Sylvie Silver for arranging these visits.
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Technical developmentOpen
Programming and graphic design by Cimex Ltd.
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SCORM Compliant versionOpen
If you are a member of staff from a Higher Education institution who would like to download the activity for use in a virtual learning environment (VLE),such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle you should use the SCORM compliant version above.
Please note that this resource was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this resource can be imported into a virtual learning environment and freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.
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AccessibilityOpen
This elearning resource has been designed to be accessible to the widest audience possible and reviewed for compliance to accessibility standards by the Digital Media Access Group at the University of Dundee. This page lists some of the features used to make the resources easier to use. If you are experiencing problems using the resources, or have any questions and comments about their accessibility, please let us know.
Using the resources without a mouse
All materials have been designed to be accessible using the keyboard. Use the Tab key to access navigational elements such as buttons and interactive diagrams. Pop-up windows with scroll bars can be accessed with the tab key, with the scroll-bar being operable via the up and down arrow keys.
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Accessing the resources with a screen reader
All resources have a narration of the main text. However if you use a screen reader, we recommend using the Text Only version for each resource. These provide broadly the same information and experience as the Flash version, but currently the nature of some features of the Flash resources mean that these features do not work as required in a screen reader
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CopyrightOpen
All material in these elearning resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. Use of these resources, and import of the resources into learning management systems, for educational purposes is freely permitted, but commercial use of this learning resource is not authorised unless permission is first obtained from SCIE.
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Images and audioOpen
The majority of the images and voices used in this resource are those of actors. This approach has been adopted to protect the identities of the service users and carers whose accounts have been drawn upon or the accounts have been based on situations indicative of the events or issues being covered.
