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Choice and Supported Informed Decision Making

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Location: National (online)
Date: 31/12/2099

Available now - secure your booking for 2024.

This workshop is in partnership with and facilitated by Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI).

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 what to document, reducing the risk of complaints and non-compliance with Quality Standards.

Instructor Led Training (ILT) via Zoom or Face-to-face at your organisation (travel charged at cost)

Duration: Three hours
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

This workshop is in partnership with Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI) and facilitated by Donny Raets.

Donny holds a Diploma of Teaching, Cert IV Training and Assessment, Cert IV Aged and Community Care and has 30 plus years’ experience in education, ranging from Primary through to Tertiary (Vocational Education and Training), remote Indigenous Communities and the Corporate sector. Her CALD background and training in the Arts support her creation and delivery of meaningful learning experiences.

Who should attend?

NDS recommends that Managers, Team Leaders, Nurses and Coordinators within disability service organisations are most suited to attend

Cost

  • Member Price: $2300 plus GST
  • Non-member Price: $3070 plus GST
Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Learn and Develop, Learn and Develop Team, submit enquiry/feedback, show phone number