April No Falls
April No Falls, is a national and international campaign to educate and raise awareness of falls prevention and help those at risk of falling to stay on their feet. The overall campaign aim is to reduce falls and harm from falls.
Each year during the month of April, Queensland Health will promote electronic campaign materials such as posters, brochures, screensavers, videos which are available for download for clinicians, community and anyone who would like to get involved and promote the April No Falls campaign.
Posters/Infographics/Factsheets/Crosswords
Posters
April no falls
- Thank you for supporting April No Falls
- Everyday in Queensland poster (PDF, 313KB)
- Health professional checkup poster (PDF, 419KB)
- Tips to prevent falls poster (PDF, 294KB)
- Call don't fall multilingual poster
Stay on your feet
- Stay On Your Feet® by having regular routine poster;(PDF, 338KB)
- Stay On Your Feet® this Easter poster;(PDF, 442KB)
- Stay on your feet - Community poster (PDF 1243 kB)
- Stay on your feet - Hospital staff poster (PDF 603 kB)
- Stay on your feet - Patient poster (PDF 592 kB)
- Stay on your feet - Residential poster (PDF 685 kB)
- Stay On Your Feet® - community poster (print version)
- Stay On Your Feet® - clinician poster (print version)
- Stay On Your Feet® - residential care poster (print version)
- Stay On Your Feet - MOVES Patient poster (PDF, 3.867MB)
- Stay On Your Feet - MOVES Residential poster (PDF, 190KB)
- Stay On Your Feet - MOVES Community poster (PDF, 775KB)
- Stay safe information sheet2022 - Falls Prevention Toolkit poster highlights the tools you can use to prevent falls and help your clients and patients to stay on their feet. Resources available to support the Falls Prevention Toolkit include:
- Are your feet healthy? checklist
- Safe shoe checklist
- Talk to your clients and patients about how to BE SAFE and prevent falls whilst in hospital
- How to Stay On Your Feet® Checklist (PDF, 1.2MB) (Winc Code: 1NY31176)
Buzz for help before you get up
- Buzz for help before you get up - poster 1 (PDF, 104KB)
- Buzz for help before you get up - poster 2 (PDF, 183KB)
- Buzz for help before you get up - poster 3 (PDF, 92KB)
- Buzz for help before you get up - poster 4 (PDF, 86KB)
- Buzz for help before you get up - poster 5 (PDF, 90KB)
Delirium
Factsheets/Infographics
- Falls prevention fact sheet (PDF, 118KB)
- Infographic poster
- Facts on falls infographics (PDF, 414KB)
- Infographic 1
- Infographic 2
- Infographic 3
Crosswords/Other
- April No Falls email signature block (JPG, 12.4KB)
- April No Falls - Crossword Community (PDF 282 KB)
- April No Falls - Crossword Hospital (PDF 282 KB)
- Queensland Stay On Your Feet® bingo-part A (PDF, 338KB)
- Queensland Stay On Your Feet bingo-part B (PDF, 338KB)
- Queensland Stay On Your Feet® memory game (PDF, 375KB)
- April No falls wordsearch (PDF, 188KB)
Screensavers/Spotlights/Web Banners
Screensavers
Spotlights
Web banners
- April No Falls web slider;(JPG, 23.8KB)
- April No Falls web banner (JPG, 21KB)
- April No Falls slider
Facebook Banners
Instagram Banners
E-Learning
Patient Safety and Quality has a number of elearning modules available on falls prevention including:
- A new Preventing Falls elearning course is now available. In this elearning course, you'll examine the impact that falls and fall-related injuries have on our patients, residents, their families and the health care system. By implementing best practice strategies and working with patients and their multidisciplinary teams, we can reduce the risk of patients falling in our care.
- A Comprehensive care elearning course is now available, which provides important education and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points with a completion certificate for all clinicians. The course covers preventing falls and harm from falls; preventing and managing pressure injuries; nutrition and hydration and screening, assessing & managing delirium and cognitive impairment, and end of life, and includes patient case studies and their goals of care.
Healthcare professionals external to Queensland Health can access the Preventing Falls and Comprehensive Care elearning courses
National/International Resources
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Safety and quality pathway for patients with cognitive impairment (delirium and dementia) in hospital
- Top tips for Safe Health Care
- Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights
- Delirium Clinical Care Standard - Consumer fact sheet
- Hip Fracture Care - Consumer fact sheet
- A better way to care - Safe and high quality care for patients with cognitive imparment (dementia and delirium) in hospital - Actions for consumers
- Comprehensive Care Standard
- Delirium Clinical Care Standard
- Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard
- The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards - Comprehensive Care Standard
- World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative
Videos
Home safety videos
The videos and information provided will help people living at home, carers and health professionals to create a safe environment and to safely assist a person to the toilet reducing the risk of falls and injuries associated with a fall in the bathroom.
Hospital setting patient handling videos
The following patient handling videos were produced by the Health, Safety and Wellness Department and Support Services at Townsville Hospital and Health Service.
- Introduction to patient handing in the bathroom
- Pre-activity patient screening: on bed tasks
- Pre-activity patient screening: off bed tasks
- Patient handling video: Sara stedy
- Patient handling video: Hopper
- Patient handling video: Standing hoist
- Patient handling video: Ceiling hoist
- Patient handling video: Bariatrics in the bathroom
- Patient handling video: Wheelie walker
- Patient handling video: Stand transfer
