Falls professional resources - Stay On Your Feet
The following resources provide guidelines, clinical tools and consumer resources for falls prevention and management and healthy active ageing for those who work with older.
To order the consumer resources including the BE SAFE inpatient brochure, Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Short Checklist, How to Stay On Your Feet® Long Checklist and the Ageing with vitality Guide and Workbook, see below:
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Clinical Forms
- In-patient Falls Assessment and Management Plan (PDF, 401KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31686)
- In-patient Post Fall Clinical Pathway (PDF, 940KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31460)
- Post Fall Clinical Flowchart (PDF, 203KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31926 - DOWNLOAD ONLY)
- Residential Care and Multipurpose Health Facility Falls Assessment and Management Plan (PDF, 905KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31414)
- Residential Care Facility/Multipurpose Health Service Post Fall Clinical Pathway (PDF, 291KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31880)
- Day Oncology Pressure Injury and Falls Assessment (PDF, 404KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31437)
- Renal Dialysis Pressure Injury and Falls Assessment (PDF, 364KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31439)
- Community Falls Assessment and Management Plan (PDF, 199KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31427)
- Falls Tools Project
- FAQs
- Post Fall Clinical Pathway Review 2018 (PDF, 425KB)
- Falls management and prevention referral checklist
Queensland Health has developed a best practice referral checklist to facilitate better management of older people who have had falls while living in the community. The checklist assists health professionals to refer older people to suitable health care providers from different disciplines and agencies. The checklist is consistent with Queensland Health's Falls Prevention Best Practice Guidelines for Public Hospitals and State Government Residential Aged Care Facilities (2003), and was developed by the Brisbane South Centre for Health Service Integration as part of the Falls Management and Prevention Project.
How to use the Referral Checklist
Referral Checklist
Other Clinical Resources
- Falls magnets (JPG, 69KB) (WINC Code: 1NY31923 (LARGE) and WINC Code: 1NYU31923 (SMALL))
- Post Falls Clinical pathway falls lanyard (SW983/WINC Code: 1NY36381 are available to order from WINC, a pack of 50 for $26.22 plus postage)
Model Implementation Standard/Policy
- Falls Injury Prevention Model Implementation Standard (DOC, 491KB)
- Falls Injury Prevention Model Policy (DOC, 436KB)
- Queensland Health - The provision of Comprehensive Assessment and Care planning in the hospital setting
Model guide for emergency department
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- Call, don't fall multilingual poster (Languages include: Chinese, Croatian, Japanese, Korean) (PDF, 308KB)
- Call don't fall multilingual poster (Languages include: Persian, Italian, Arabic, Karen, Chinese) (PDF, 500KB)
- BE SAFE brochure (WINC Code: 1NY31867) and BE SAFE Brochure-Consumer Involvement Summary
(PDF, 482KB) - Queensland Stay On Your Feet Short Checklist (PDF, 300KB) (Winc Code: 1NY31387)
- How to Stay On Your Feet® Checklist (PDF, 1.2MB) (Winc Code: 1NY31176)
- Ageing with vitality: Your everyday guide to healthy active living (Winc Code: 1NY33706 - Comes as set with workbook)
- Ageing with vitality: workbook (Winc Code: 1NY33706 - Comes as set with guide)
Queensland Stay On Your Feet Community Good Practice Guidelines
Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Community Good Practice Guidelines (PDF, 308KB)
These guidelines have been developed for professionals based on the latest evidence, program experience and evaluation of falls prevention strategies. They cover demographics, incidence, risk factors, awareness raising activities and falls prevention interventions.
Download in sections:
Section A - Cover page and contents
Section B - Part 1 Purpose and Part 2 Population Ageing
Section C - Part 3 Falls in Older Community-Dwelling People and Part 4 Guiding Principles for Preventing Falls
Section D - Part 5 Falls Risk Factors
Section E - Part 6 Awareness Raising, Screening and Assessment of Falls Risk
Section F - Part 7 Interventions for Prevention of Falls and Falls Injury
Section G - Part 8 Glossary, Part 9 References and Part 10 Appendix A
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National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (second edition)
Falls best practice guidelines
The Preventing Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice guidelines by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare are recommended by our Patient Safety and Quality for falls prevention.
Community falls prevention resources
The following resources provide guidelines for falls prevention and healthy active ageing for those who work with older people in the community. Additional resources, including Queensland Stay On Your Feet® checklists are available.
Finding Your Feet Facilitators Manual (PDF, 1.38MB)
Finding Your Feet is a group-based mobility, balance and falls prevention program combining structured physical activity and education sessions, and is designed for people who have had a fall, are afraid of falling, or report loss of confidence in their daily activities.Download in sections:
Section A - Cover page and contents
Section B - Sessions 1 and 2
Section C - Sessions 3 and 4
Section D - Sessions 5 and 6
Section E - Session 7, Certificate of Achievement and Resources
Stay On Your Feet® Image Library
Queensland Health has a 'healthy active ageing' image library that contains images that can be used in publications and other media free of charge, providing appropriate acknowledgement is given (for example: © Queensland Health).Falls prevention strategies, policies and plans
Key falls prevention strategy documents prepared by federal, state and local governments and other major organisations can be found on the Toolkit webpage.
Queensland seniors strategies
