Mirus Academy

SIRS Masterclass: Beyond the Basics

Led by Angelika Koplin MHSc, Principal Consultant at Aged Care Strategies and Support. This 90 minute online masterclass will teach you how to make the calls that are not clear cut, and how to defend them. $200 plus GST per participant.

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Grey-area calls, worked through in practice
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Priority 1 versus Priority 2, and who owns the decision
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Defensible decision trails and root cause analysis

The calls that are hard to make

You know the eight reportable incident types. So why do the late notifications, the missed notifications and the compliance findings keep coming? Because SIRS is not decided in the clear cases. It is decided in the grey: the resident-to-resident push, the expected death that was not, the refusal of care that looks like dignity of risk on Monday and neglect by Friday.

This masterclass takes managers and clinical leads past the definitions and into the judgment calls, and shows you how to put a defensible written rationale behind every call you make.

You leave with the SIRS Decision Trail Record, a worked root cause analysis you can adapt, and four grey-zone case scenarios with facilitator answer guides, ready to re-run with your own leadership team.

Course details

Sessions 13 Oct, 20 Oct, 27 Oct, 4 Nov - 12.30pm to 2.00pm AEDT
Duration 90 minutes
Delivery Online, interactive
Facilitators Angelika Koplin MHSc, Principal Consultant, Aged Care Strategies and Support
Nandita Puri, Registered Nurse, Aged Care Quality Advisor, risk and compliance specialist
Who it is for Facility managers, care managers, clinical leads, and quality and governance staff in residential aged care.
Price $200 plus GST per participant

What the masterclass covers

Three parts across 90 minutes, built on cases, triage drills and group scenarios.

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The eight types, worked through the grey
Every reportable incident type, including the newly redefined neglect, taken to the calls that most often go wrong: consent and cognitive impairment, cumulative minor incidents, restraint versus treatment.
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Priority 1 versus Priority 2, in practice
The current Priority 1 definition and its practitioner-treatment test, the triage workflow, when the notification clocks start, and who owns the decision out of hours.
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The defensible decision trail
What survives an audit two years later: contemporaneous records, reasoning written against the statutory definition, and the same rigour applied to the decisions not to report.

The decision is yours to make. Make it defensible.