Professional Education
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Guardianship and administration matters can be complicated. You may be asked to provide support for a person to make a decision, or to work with their decision maker. This often requires a solid understanding of Supported Decision making, Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA) documents, Advance Health Directives (AHD), Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) orders and working with decision makers.
Understanding decision making staff training
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Understanding Decision Making training provides workers with a crucial understanding of legal and ethical considerations to best support clients whose decision-making capacity is diminished, or being questioned. It equips workers with the skills to ensure the rights of their clients are upheld and their choices protected.
The course explains the legal responsibilities and limitations of Enduring Powers of Attorneys, Guardians and Administrators. The workshop is delivered in an interactive way, facilitating applied knowledge to common work practices and real life scenarios. Course content is relevant to workers in the aged care, disability, mental health, nursing, allied health, residential care and community sectors. Training typically is best suited to workers who support people with questioned or impaired decision making capacity.
Topics include:
- Exploring capacity and consent
- Supported decision making and Substitute decision making, for health, finance and personal matters
- How to access support when a person’s decision making capacity is impaired or questioned, and when decision makers are not acting in a client’s best interest
- Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA) and Advanced Health Directive (AHD) documents, their powers, limits and how they relate to everyday decisions
- Understanding Advance Health Directives
- The roles of the statutory agencies: Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT), Office of the Public Guardian and the Public Trustee.
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Supported decision making training
Health decision making training
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The health care decision making workshop aims to educate participants on health care decision making law in Queensland, particularly when caring for clients who have limited decision making capacity, including capacity assessment and supported decision making and the hierarchy of substitute decision-makers.
These short workshops (2 hours) offer important insight into the legal and ethical aspects of substituted decision making for health care matters. It offers essential background information for those in roles that undertake health decision making processes on behalf of others.
Topics include:
- Relevant legislation and where it applies
- Informed consent and the right to refuse care
- Human rights and the importance of supported decision making
- Substituted decision making pathways: Advance Health Directives, Attorneys under Enduring Power of Attorney documents, Guardians and Statutory Health Attorneys.
- When to defer to substituted decision makers and their hierarchy
- Decision making principles for health practitioners
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Supported decision making training
Elder abuse information sessions
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ADA Law offers free Elder Abuse Prevention & Responses information sessions to groups of older people and service providers in the Greater Brisbane area. These talks aim to increase awareness of elder abuse in the community and residential care.
Topics include:
- What is elder abuse?
- Risk factors for elder abuse
- Types of elder abuse
- Safeguards to prevent elder abuse
- Who can help?
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