Splinting, Immobilisation and Fracture Management

The ability to properly manage patient injuries, apply immobilisation or splinting and fit a range of slings casts is a technical skill easily mastered with practice and an understanding of basic principles.

The course is focused on practical skills to enable students to confidently and safely manage a range of common presentation injuries and apply appropriate treatments in the management of musculoskeletal disorders, injury or for immobilisation due to other medical conditions.

The Splinting, Immobilisation and Fracture Management is evidence based and the techniques taught are designed to promote the best practice outcomes for patient safety and care.

Upon successful completion of the course, students should have the practical skills and knowledge to enable them to manage a range of injuries. Practical skills and demonstrations will include:

• Bandaging
• Scaphoid injury management
• Neurovascular and vascular review using doppler
• Head, neck, and cervical immobilisation
• Arm, shoulder, and clavicle immobiliser sling systems
• Upper limb management including circumferential casting, thermoplastic splinting and polymer foam splinting
• Hip fractures, stabilisation, and management
• Lower limb management including ortho glass polyurethane coated splinting, air and delta express speed splinting systems to lower limbs
• Use of walking aids, daily living aids and mobility aids

Course Requirements Entrants to the Splinting, Immobilisation and Fracture Management Course must provide evidence of a relevant professional role. Relevant roles would include:

• Registered Nurses
• Enrolled Nurses
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
• General practitioners
• General Practice Registrars
• Others on application.

• One day face-to-face workshop
• In-class activities assessed by a qualified assessor
• Online assessment completed via accessIQ

To achieve competency students must demonstrate successful completion of:

• Written assessment covering essential knowledge and skills
• Realistic skills simulations and scenarios in the classroom.

Managing injuries for patients can be challenging, in primary healthcare, when trying to achieve optimal patient safety and this program is designed to provide a variety of skills that can meet the clinical needs for injury management. An engaging interactive workshop enables the student to effectively manage common injuries that they will see in their workplace.

The face-to-face workshop involves lecture and practical workshop activities including:

• anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system
• fracture classification and categories
• fracture and healing phases
• emergency fracture management
• complications associated with orthopaedic trauma
• splinting, casting and immobilisation products and equipment immobilisation casting and splinting techniques
• principles of cast valving
• post-cast application management
• principles of cast removal.

Students enrolled in Benchmarque Group courses should adhere to the following principles:

• Display a commitment to learning and to achieving success
• Be responsible and accountable for their own learning, behaviour and decisions
• Actively participate in all workshop activities and learning experiences
• Attend all scheduled sessions and be punctual at all times
• Complete all online assessments and workplace practice activities
• Work in harmony and respect the rights and opinions of staff and other students
• Treat others as they themselves would like to be treated
• Use acceptable language at all times.

Continuing professional development is the means by which members of the clinical profession maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge, expertise and competence, and develop the personal and professional qualities required throughout their professional lives.

The CPD cycle involves reviewing practice, identifying learning needs, planning and participating in relevant learning activities, and reflecting on the value of those activities.

As a general guide, one hour of active learning equates to one hour of CPD. It is the responsibility of the individual student to calculate how many hours of active learning have been completed. The hours of active learning estimated above should act as a guide to CPD hours.

For all other health professionals completing this program, your continuing professional development (CPD) requirements may vary and it is important to remember that it is your responsibility to maintain and register CPD with your professional body. In many instances, your regulatory authority will recognise hours of learning as stated above.

12 months. The time is calculated from when a student receives and opens their assessment. Within the accessIQ platform, students will be provided an initial 6 months to complete and submit all required assessment activities. Friendly email reminders will be sent to students to ensure an assessment is completed on time. At the completion of the 6 month period, students can request up to a maximum of 2 extensions, each extension being for a period of 90 days. If requesting a second extension, the request must be in writing.

If the entire 12 month period expires and a final assessment has not been submitted, The Benchmarque Group reserves the right to deem the assessment Not Competent and remove the student from the program.

If the entire 12 month period expires and a final assessment has not been submitted, The Benchmarque Group reserves the right to deem the assessment Not Competent and remove the student from the program.

If you are deemed Not Yet Competent on your first and second assessment submissions, feedback will be provided. It is very important that you read all the feedback provided. The Assessor will have identified any areas where additional evidence is required or any questions that need to be reviewed and resubmitted. If, after 3 unsuccessful submissions, you are unable to demonstrate competency on your assessment, your assessment will be deemed Not Competent. Feedback will be provided to you and what the possible following steps and outcomes are.

At the completion of the program, successful students will receive a Certificate of Attendance and Digital Badge for Splinting, Immobilisation and Fracture Management Program.

To move your workshop date, you will be required to pay a non-refundable fee. Please choose your workshop carefully as it is a requirement that your pre-requisite learning is completed and assessed before you can attend your scheduled workshop. If you do not complete your pre-requisite learning in time for the workshop, you may be required to pay further fee(s) to reschedule.