Fracture and Injury Management

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

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

The Fracture and Injury Management Course 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 and strapping
• Scaphoid injury management
• Neurovascular and vascular review
• Arm, shoulder, and clavicle immobiliser sling systems
• Upper limb management including backslab casting, thermoplastic splinting and polymer foam splinting
• 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
• Nurse Practitioners
• Enrolled Nurses
• 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

The Fracture and Injury Management Course is delivered as a one day, in-person workshop and students will be assessed by a qualified and endorsed trainer as part of the workshop.

Additional resources are provided to the student via the accessIQ digital resource library but no additional assessment is required by the student on completion of the workshop.

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

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

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

• anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system
• fracture and injury classification
• Medical imaging and interpretation
• emergency fracture management
• splinting, casting and immobilisation products and equipment immobilisation casting and splinting techniques
• post-cast application management
• principles of cast removal
• Managing complications

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.

We estimate approximately 10 hours.

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.

If your organisation is interested in making a group booking, we would love to hear from you! Click on 'Book a Group' on the right menu panel of the course page or head to our Partnerships page.

This is a program designed for a range of clinicians working in the primary care setting and its aim is to bridge the gap between primary care and the Urgent Care setting.

The course is designed to be as interactive as possible and throughout the day, students will have the opportunity to put their knowledge into action and practice everything they have learned.

Great question and maybe a little. We would recommend wearing suitable clothing and closed toe footwear. Nothing fancy, just the same clothing you would be wearing in the workplace.