Special Care Dentistry Study Day (NW170117U)

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Registration is from 9 am

This course is only open to NHS Dentists and NHS DCPs

Recommended to all

Clinical Holding:

• To enable participants to hold an individual safely during clinical assessment and treatment procedures.
• To enable participants to make evidence-based decisions related to the use of clinical holding.

Consent and the Mental Capacity Act

This session will cover the principles of the MCA and give an overview of capacity assessment

Clinical Holding:

1. Describe the reasoning for decisions made to restrict a person’s movement that can be evidenced against legal and professional benchmarks for risk reduction.
2. Explain the risks associated with the use of restrictive holds or physical restraints.
3. Demonstrate verbal and non-verbal de-escalation strategies.
4. Demonstrate the use of holding skills consistent with a set of physiological principles that may be used in varying clinical environments to restrict movement and minimise risk.
5. Demonstrate how to disengage from various holds using a consistent set of physiological principles.

Consent and the Mental Capacity Act

1. Define the terms Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty
2. Identify the five core principles of the MCA
3. Describe how mental capacity is assessed

Clinical Holding:

• Key professional and legal issues
• Decision-Making Matrix
• Restraint related injury or harm
• The importance of policy in risk reduction
• Professional considerations
• Touch zones
• Key physiological principles
• Demonstration and practice of:
• Low, medium and high Level Clinical Interventions
• Person-specific risk factors
• The Respiratory Triangle
• When to stop the use of clinical holding

Consent and the Mental Capacity Act

• Define the terms Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty
• Identify the five core principles of the MCA
• Describe how mental capacity is assessed