Managing risk, minimising restraint e-learning course
Challenges, dilemmas and positive approaches for working with older people in care homes
Published: 2009 | Free to use | Learning Management System compatible
This e-learning course has not been updated since 2009. It remains available under SCIE’s commitment to share knowledge and information but please be alert to changes in policy or practice since publication.
Course modules
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Module 1: Exploring restraint Open
An interactive exploration of definitions, thoughts and ideas about the use of restraint and how to minimise it.
Sections
- An introduction to restraint
- Your ideas about restraint
- Restraint and the care home community
- Making a start on minimising restraint
- Conclusion
- Resources
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- Restraint can be a difficult issue in care homes, and the word means different things to different people.
- There are many different types of restraint, ranging from active physical interventions to failing to assist a person.
- Minimising the use of restraint is important, but sometimes it will be the right thing to do.
- Knowing the individual, valuing the views of relatives and working as a team will help reduce the need for restraint.
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Module 2: Decision making processes Open
Exploring approaches to communication, learning and development, and the care home environment to help minimise the use of restraint.
Sections
- Introduction
- Getting started on making difficult decisions
- The legal position on restraint
- A framework for decisions on restraint
- Conclusion
- Resources
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- How staff, residents and relatives view risk and risk-taking will influence decisions about restraint.
- Being positive, working as a team and keeping good records will help to make good decisions about the use of restraint.
- Knowing about the alternatives to the use of restraint and having some basic knowledge of the law on restraint is important.
- A careful five-step process can help when making difficult decisions about restraint.
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Module 3: Creating a positive culture Open
Exploring approaches to communication, learning and development, and the care home environment to help minimise the use of restraint.
Sections:
- Introduction
- Communication
- Learning and development
- Creating a postive environment
- Conclusion
- Resources
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- Create a positive culture of care to lessen the likelihood of care staff needing to use restraint.
- Use good communication to help negotiate the many different and often emotive views of everyone involved in a decision to use restraint.
- Provide learning and development opportunities that help promote a learning culture and support better decision-making about restraint.
- Develop a positive physical care environment to help reduce the need for restraint.
Course details
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Who they are suitable for Open
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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Terms of useOpen
All material in these 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 any of SCIE’s learning resources is not authorised unless permission is first obtained in writing.
Please note these courses are provided free of charge on an ‘as seen’ basis. Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform.
Any known issue with an individual course is noted on the opening page of that course.
This course was developed using a technology called Adobe Flash, which is not compatible with any Apple/Android platform, and may not work on any mobile device.
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Learning Management System compatibleOpen
This course is fully SCORM compliant. That means they can be loaded into a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle, and accessed locally.
Please note that this course was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this course can be freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.
To obtain the SCORM-compliant version of this course, please contact us.