ANMF Aged Care Training Room

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Managed Learning Solutions for Aged Care Providers

It is essential for your workforce to have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet the requirements of the eight Aged Care Quality Standards.

Standard 7 - Human resources - requires your workforce to be knowledgeable, capable and caring and our approach to the learning resources development supports this requirement.

All ANMF ACTR learning resources are mapped to the Aged Care Quality Standards and evidence based.

Our approach is to work collaboratively to create learning experiences for your workforce to build competence and a commitment to upholding people’s rights and to be truly responsive to what each person wants for their best life.

Flexible and Responsive SupportThe ANMF ACTR online solution supports your organisation across a number of areas:

• Ongoing education to meet the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards

• Mandatory education

• New worker induction and probation

• Performance management

• Dissemination of proprietary information

• Audit outcomes, complaints or Commission related concerns

• Accreditation

Learning Management System The ANMF ACTR learning management system easily and effectively manages your workforce learning and development. A learning management system is simply a central place to administer, deliver and report on learning and development.

Your secure training department will be created and ‘fully loaded’ with 50+ online learning resources mapped to the eight Aged Care Quality Standards.

Your training department in the LMS will become the “go to” place for new learning, updates or refreshment of knowledge, to meet continuing professional development requirements of your registered nurses and provide access to proprietary information.

Our Learning Resources1. 41 learning activities mapped to the Aged Care Quality Standards

2. ‘About Me’ Series of 9 short videos introducing the Aged Care Quality Standards

3. Support for individual study to allow learners to explore topics of interest in more detail

4. Engage the learner with interactions, case scenarios, reflection exercises, audio, videos, text

and images

5. Content relevant for residential aged care and home care across work roles

6. Our learning activities are outcome based with online assessments; auto marked with feedback

7. Include an extensive list of references for recommended and additional reading

Our Learning Resources8. “PIIP’s” (Put It into Practice) workplace activities are included in each learning activity to support the application of learning to practice in line with the Aged Care Quality Standards

9. Look and Act’ toolkits – The high impact/high prevalence risks will be addressed along with some additional topics from Standard 3 and Open Disclosure.

These 10 to 15 minute learning resources will be optimised for all devices including mobile phones and provide ‘Just in Time’ learning to further develop your workforce’s observational and reporting skills. (Currently in production)

10. Provide your registered nurses with CPD and online tools to meet their annual professional practice requirements

Customisation Each organisation has its unique challenges when it comes to disseminating information, providing workforce education and managing workplace competency.

Our learning activities can be customised with your organisation’s policies and procedures, other specific content and related assessment questions.

Our “News” function provides a customisable communication area. Documents and other information can also be uploaded to the LMS to facilitate easy access.

The ANMF ACTR consultants will work with you to customise a response for the needs of your organisation. We have a solution for every aged care organisation.

Manager Functionality and Full Access to all Learning Resources Reviewing policies and procedures, checking for knowledge or competency gaps and providing relevant education or training should be part of your action plan when responding to an audit result, complaint or ACQSC issue.

Manager functionality allows you to enrol individuals, groups or all staff in any learning resource at any time. This is in addition to the automatic enrolment in the annual education program customised for your needs.

Completion and exception reports can be generated in real time for any learning resource. Scheduled completion reports are also sent by email each month.

We also provide support for accreditation or quality reporting in relation to training and education.

Managing Workforce Performance • Aged Care Learning Solutions provides a tangible, objective and equitable response to staff

performance management

• Agreed annual staff education requirements for each staff member can be easily monitored over the year to keep learners on track to meet KPI’s

• Individual learning plans can be developed by your organisation via manager rights access to the LMS

• Individual staff members can be enrolled in any education at any time in response to a performance issue

• For example: unsafe manual handling, breeching privacy and confidentiality, unsafe medication management

Managing Workforce Performance • The ANMF ACTR provides a tangible, objective and equitable response to workforce

performance management

• Agreed annual education requirements for individuals can be easily monitored over the year to keep learners on track to meet KPI’s

• Individual learning plans can be developed by your via manager access in the LMS

• Individuals can be enrolled in any education at any time in response to a performance issue

• For example: unsafe manual handling, breeching privacy and confidentiality, unsafe medication management

Customised Online Induction How do you achieve effective and consistent induction every time with a planned program that continues during the probationary period?

Our consultants will work with you to develop an induction and probation program which incorporates:

• Your content (policies, procedures, staff handbook and other proprietary information)

• Relevant workplace competencies for different work groups and

• Your choice of our learning activities customised with your policies and procedures.

• Completion milestones will be determined by your needs. Learners and managers will receive scheduled automated email reminders

• Progress can be monitored and learner activity and completion can be checked at any time

The ANMF ACTR online induction and probation program is the right choice for individual or group inductions across all work groups for your organisation.

ANMF ACTR CPD Solution for Registered Nurses The ANMF ACTR CPD Solution will mitigate the risk of your registered and enrolled nurses not meeting their CPD requirements for national registration.

The provision of continuing professional development is highly valued by nurses and has been recognised as an effective recruitment and retention strategy.

The ANMF ACTR CPD Solution will support your nurses to meet their national registration continuing professional development requirements.

CPD Requirements for AHPRA Registration ANMF ACTR resources to meet CPD standard requirements

Minimum 20 aged care specific hours of CPD per year

The ANMF ACTR CPD Solution provides 20 hours of aged care specific CPD per year via an annual learning plan. Nurses can also self-enrol in over 50 online learning activities.

Learning outcomes for all CPD activity Record of learning outcomes for all learning activities and other CPD activities

Reflection on value and effectiveness of CPD activity

Completion of each learning activity triggers a learning reflection for the learner to complete

Annual learning needs analysis Online CPD Learning Needs and Plan to complete in preparation for the coming registration period

Annual learning plan The learner’s CPD hours will be collated and recorded with the name of the activity, date and hours

Evidence of CPD activities Other CPD activities e.g. conferences, workplace competencies, seminars, mentoring can also be recorded in the CPD Management functionality.

Contact ANMF Aged Care Training RoomPlease call or email for more information.

Phone: (02) 6232 6533

Email: education@anmf.org.au