Risk Assessment
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30 mins

Risk Assessment

This module aims to provide you with standard principles and best practice guidelines in relation to clinical and dynamic risk assessments in mental health care settings.
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Risk Assessment
13 Chapters
30 mins
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About The Course

This module aims to provide you with standard principles and best practice guidelines in relation to clinical and dynamic risk assessments in mental health care settings. Risk assessment is an important part of working safely with service users. It helps healthcare staff work in a way which safeguards both service user and personal safety.

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Learning Outcomes
  • Define clinical risk assessment, and appreciate the difference between static and dynamic risk factors
  • Explain the process of a clinical risk assessment using the 5 stage model and standardised risk assessment instruments
  • Appreciate the importance of managing patient risk
  • Define dynamic risk assessment
  • Recall the 3As model of dynamic risk assessment
  • Explain ways of managing patient risk
  • Be aware of the care programme approach, and appreciate its relevance to risk assessment and management
  • Know how to record a risk assessment
  • Appreciate the risk assessment review process
  • Apply the principles of risk assessment to a simulated scenario
  • Appreciate the importance of local processes, and know where to find more information regarding local risk assessment procedures
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Course Modules
Chapter 1 What are Clinical Risk Assessments?
Chapter 2 The 5 Stage Model of Clinical Risk Assessment
Chapter 3 The Use of Standardised Rating Tools
Chapter 4 Dynamic Risk Assessment
Chapter 5 Managing Patient Risk
Chapter 6 The Care Programme Approach
Chapter 7 The Violent Patient Scheme and Violent Patient Indicators
Chapter 8 Recording Risk Assessments
Chapter 9 Risk Assessment Review
Chapter 10 The Importance of Local Processes
Chapter 11 Simulated Scenario: Assessing Heidi's risk
Chapter 12 Summary
Chapter 13 References
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