Palliative Care
Clinical Sections
Behaviours of Concern in RAC
• 🚨 Recognition and Immediate Risk Management • 🧩 Structured Assessment — the PIECES Framework • 🌿 Non-Drug Strategies and the Individualised Behaviour Support Plan • 💊 Psychotropic Medication as a Restrictive Practice • 📞 Support Resources and When to Escalate
Constipation in Residential Aged Care
• 🚽 Recognising Constipation • 🩺 Assessment of the Resident with Constipation • 🚩 Red Flags and Escalation Criteria • 🥝 Non-Pharmacological Management • 💊 Pharmacological Management • ⚠️ Management of Faecal Impaction
End of Life Management
• 🕊️ Identifying the Terminal Phase of Life • 🗣️ Communication, Consent and Advance Care Planning • 📋 Commencing the End-of-Life Care Pathway and Accessing Specialist Support • 💊 Symptom Management in the Dying Phase • 🤲 After-Death Care
Fever or Suspected Infection in RAC
• 🌡️ Recognising Infection in Aged Care Residents • 🚨 Recognising Sepsis in Older Persons • 🛡️ Immediate Actions: Isolation, Infection Control and PPE • 🩺 Assessment Pathway: Vital Signs, Source Identification and Investigations • 🤝 Supportive Care and Managing Destabilised Comorbidities • 💉 Antibiotic Selection Principles
New or Worsened Confusion (Delirium) in RAC
• 🧠 Recognising Delirium • 🚨 Initial Response to Acute Confusion in the RACF • 🔍 Assessing the Resident with Suspected or Confirmed Delirium • 🧩 Delirium versus Dementia • ⚠️ Red Flags for Deterioration in Delirium • 📞 Escalation Criteria
Pain Assessment and Management in RAC
• 🩹 Recognising and Triaging the Resident with Pain • 📏 Cognition-Appropriate Pain Assessment Tools • 🔍 Structured Clinical Assessment • 🧠 Classifying the Type and Duration of Pain • 💊 Multidisciplinary Pain Management Plan • ⚠️ Escalation Criteria and Ongoing Review
Recognition of the Deteriorating Resident
• 🚨 Recognition of the Deteriorating Resident
Urinary Catheter Insertion or Change in RAC
• 🩺 Overview and Initial Assessment Pathway • 💧 Indications for Urinary Catheter Insertion • 🔁 Indications and Frequency for Catheter Change • 📐 Catheter Selection: Material, Lumen and Size • ⚠️ Insertion, Confirming Placement and Escalation Criteria • 🚨 Catheter-Associated Complications: Blockage, Bypassing, Infection and Trauma
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) in RAC
• 🔎 Recognising a Urinary Tract Infection in Aged Care Residents • 🩺 Assessment of the Resident with Suspected UTI • 🧪 Urine Collection for Microscopy, Culture and Sensitivities • 🛌 Supportive Care, Monitoring and Escalation • 💊 Antibiotic Management of UTI in Aged Care • 🛡️ Prevention of UTI in Residential Aged Care