LibGuides: Topics in Nursing: Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls, Falls and Delirium

National Standard and Resources

Home page

Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice guidelines for Australian hospitals, 2009
Guideline

Updated DRAFT version - Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals, 2024
Guideline Draft

Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People (Residential Aged Care Facilities): Falls facts for nurses - Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities 2009
User Guide

Delirium Clinical Care Standard

“The Delirium Clinical Care Standard aims to ensure that patients at risk of delirium during a hospital admission are identified promptly and receive preventive strategies. The Delirium Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements to improve pathways of care for people at risk of, or experiencing delirium". ACSQHC, 2021. (AU standard)
Standard

Cognitive impairment resources
Health care for people with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium. Impairment resources

https://cognitivecare.gov.au/

Delirium and dementia issues

Evidence for the safety and quality issues associated with the care of patients with cognitive impairment in acute care settings: a rapid review October 2013 (ACSQHC, Sydney ) Includes delirium, dementia care pathways, delirium in acute care settings)
Review

Expert searches on Delirium, Falls

Contains Australasian focused information. Topic searches.
NSQHS Standards (National Safety and Quality Health Standards and Accreditation)
https://hla.alia.org.au/nsqhs-standards/

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK)

Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care
Clinical Guideline

Delirium & Falls - General

Falls Delirium - Screening & Diagnosis

Epidemiology, risk factors

Older people & frailty

Videos

Falls - Delirium, Prevention & Management

Operative period and risk factors

Resources

Australian resources

Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (CHOPS) AU
The overall aim of the Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (CHOPs) program in Australia is to improve the experiences and outcomes of confused older people in hospital.
Cognitive Screening tools –CHOPs Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
NSW government, Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, ACI: Agency for Clinical Innovation.
Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
The research of the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre (CDPC) focuses on developing evidence-based guidelines and tools to implement best practice dementia care in the clinical, care and community environments

International Resources

MSD Manual - Falls in Older Adults - 2025
MERCK Manual. Falls in Older Adults. Falls in Older Adults
Richard G. Stefanacci, DO, MGH, MBA,
Jayne R. Wilkinson, MD, MSCE, Reviewed/Revised Nov 2023 | Modified Apr 2025
MSD Manual - Delirium, Delirium & Dementia, 2025
MERCK Manuals. Delirium. Delirium is an acute, transient, usually reversible, fluctuating disturbance in attention, cognition, and consciousness level. Causes include almost any medical condition (especially when patients are in stressful environments such as hospital settings) or drug exposure. ByJuebin Huang, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center Reviewed/Revised Feb 2025