Frequently asked questions

Nothing! It is 100% free for individuals and organisations to use.

Ausmed created the Aged Care Training Passport because of a belief that all training should be as impactful as possible. By providing eight common mandatory training items free to all aged care workers, Ausmed can support the aged care sector to focus their learning and development resources and employee time more efficiently on initiatives that will positively impact their organisations - and especially - the unique care needs of their clients.

It depends. Mandatory training activities can be recorded as CPD provided that they are relevant to your context of practice, related to a current learning goal and where they include new learning. For example, routine annual fire training cannot be recorded; however, if new knowledge is gained during mandatory training (e.g. initial COVID-19 pandemic education and training) then this could be recorded.

The Aged Care Training Passport allows you to easily prove your core knowledge of the aged care sector wherever you go. This means you have more ownership of your mandatory training and can avoid repeating training when moving between aged care providers, or when working for multiple aged care providers simultaneously.

Yes. Upon completion of the eight core training items, you will be able to download your certificate as a PDF to evidence you have completed the training. Alternatively, you will be given a unique URL of your certificate that can be shared with anyone.

The Aged Care Training Passport includes the following topics and learning objectives.

• Aged Care Quality Standards
  1. Recognise the importance of the Aged Care Quality Standards.
  2. Identify the eight Aged Care Quality Standards.
  3. Understand how the Aged Care Quality Standards can be applied in practice.
• Fire Safety in Residential Aged Care
  1. Understand the importance of fire safety in residential aged care.
  2. Refresh and reinforce existing fire safety training.
  3. Recognise ways to reduce the risk and spread of fires.
  4. Understand the importance of an emergency response plan.
• Minimising Restrictive Practices in Residential Aged Care
  1. Define restrictive practice.
  2. Identify various forms of restrictive practices.
  3. Understand the legal requirements for the use of any restrictive practice.
  4. Discover alternative interventions to restrictive practices to minimise their use.
• Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace
  1. Understand what bullying is (and what it is not).
  2. Recognise bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
  3. Take appropriate action if you experience or witness bullying, harassment or discrimination at work.
• Infection Prevention and Control
  1. Understand how infection prevention and control principles reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
  2. Know when and how to apply standard precautions.
  3. Know when and how to apply transmission-based precautions.
  4. Know when to perform the five moments of hand hygiene.
  5. Know how to safely don and doff personal protective equipment.
• Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)
  1. Recognise what is and what isn’t a serious, reportable incident.
  2. Respond appropriately to a serious incident.
  3. Report a serious incident to the key personnel in your organisation for notification to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.
  4. Record relevant details about a serious incident to help prevent further incidents from occurring.
• Workplace Health and Safety
  1. Identify steps involved in managing workplace health and safety.
  2. Describe and identify hazardous manual tasks.
  3. Assess the risk of manual tasks.
  4. Locate state/territory workplace health and safety acts and regulations.
• Apology and Open Disclosure in Healthcare
  1. Understand the importance of open disclosure.
  2. Know your individual responsibilities in relation to open disclosure.
  3. Understand and apply the principles of the Australian Open Disclosure Framework.
  4. Appropriately apologise or give an expression of regret in response to an adverse event.