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

Guide on Falls and management

Includes aspects of falls prevention, risk factors and therapy management. Last updated June 2025.

Guidelines, National Standards and Resources



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Australian Guidelines on Falls

Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals, 2025
Guideline

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Residential Aged Care Services (Falls Guidelines for RACS), 2025
Guideline

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/

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

Videos

Resources

Australian resources

International Resources

Video and Slides

Frailty Taskforce Webinars
Australian Agency for Clinical Innovation, ACI (NSW)

  • Frailty in clinical practice
  • Update on frailty research (University of Sydney, ACI - Australia)

 

 

 

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Multilevel factors influencing falls of older patients in hospital: The risk of hospital-induced delirium and the impact of nurse staffing, 2025
Jinhyun Kim, Eunhee Lee, Sunmi Lee. Geriatric Nursing. Volume 61, January–February 2025, Pages 13-19.

Exploring the concept of a 'long lie' after a fall to inform clinical pathways in pre-hospital services: a systematic literature review, 2025 
Joanne J Holland. Nursing older people 2025-5-29, ISSN 2047-8941 https://10.7748/nop.2025.e1505.

A Scoping Review of Fall-Risk Screening Tools in the Emergency Department for Future Falls in Older Adults, 2024 
Daniel D Wickins, Gerontology 70(12):1227-1240 2024 ISSN 1423-0003

Identifying the relationship between delirium and falls, 2023
Leah V, Ngwu L (2023) Nursing Older People. doi: 10.7748/nop.2023.e1418.