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General information
Welcome letter
We'll send you a welcome letter via email once your course booking is confirmed. This contains essential information about your training:
- Date and time of training
- Login details for interRAI Learning and Development (iL&D), our online learning system - where you will complete your online modules, have access to helpful workbook units and receive educator feedback
- Training programme details
If you haven't received your welcome email, please check your junk/spam mail first, and if you're unable to find it please contact us.
Manuals
Your employer usually has copies of the interRAI assessment manuals you need for your course.
If you are unable to find the manuals you require, extra copies can be purchased.
Please ask your manager to email interRAI@tas.health.nz to request these.
Check that you have the correct manual
Online training modules
For most of our courses, there are online training modules to complete either before your first day of training or during your training.
These are completed in interRAI Learning & Development (IL&D), our online learning system.
Please read your welcome letter and learning programme carefully and contact us if you have any queries.
Technology
To complete your distance learning, you'll need the following:
- A computer or laptop with a good internet connection and a suitable browser, eg, Google Chrome, Firefox or Edge
- Access to Zoom with sound and video activated, and popups enabled
- A quiet space to learn so you can learn without interruptions, a computer at a nurses station is not suitable for training
- Security: before you begin your training, additional technology security requirements are required to be installed on devices used to complete interRAI assessments. This includes checking your computer is ready to run Momentum. On this website's home page click on ‘MOMENTUM ALL REGIONS’ at the top pf the page. If you receive a ‘page not found’ message, please contact CDHB service desk on 0800 10 80 44, press option 1 for support.
- Collecting patient information: The collection of information for educational purposes must comply with Tikonga Whanonga, New Zealand Nursing Council Code of Conduct (2012). This does not allow for the imaging of client medical records using a cellphone.
Course content
The course you are enrolled in will show you:
- how to access the interRAI software system
- how to create and manage a new client / resident record
- information about the interRAI assessment tools
- how to complete the clinical interRAI assessment you are training in
- how to read and interpret interRAI assessment information
- how interRAI assessments are used to support clinical decision-making
All courses are delivered by distance learning. In some exceptional circumstances an educator may deliver training in person - please let us know if you require this.
Recommended readings
The following readings are not compulsory but provide additional context to interRAI assessments for people attending training.
- Useful information on EPOAs on the Supersenior website
- Useful information on understanding the difference between an Advance Directive/Treatment Restriction and an Advance Care Plan.
Contact Assessment training
Contact Assessment training is delivered by distance learning over one day, with four weeks to complete the course.
Enrol for Contact Assessment training by emailing us at interRAI@tas.health.nz
Your allocated Educator will contact you prior to training and provide you with your login to the Momentum Production and Training sites and will support you throughout your training.
Once you have completed the initial training course, there are a range of steps to reach interRAI competency within the course timeframes. Please read the learning programme attached to your welcome email.
You will need to have a copy of your organisation/facility’s light blue ‘interRAI Contact Assessment (CA) Form and User's Manual’ on your training day.
Home Care assessment training
Home Care assessment training is delivered by distance learning over two days with six weeks to complete the course.
Enrol for Home Care assessment training by emailing us at interRAI@tas.health.nz
Your allocated Educator will contact you prior to training and provide you with your login to the Momentum Production and Training sites and will support you throughout your training.
Once you have completed the initial training course, there are a range of steps to reach interRAI competency within the course timeframes. Please read the learning programme attached to your welcome email.
On your training days, you will need to have a copy of your organisation/facility’s dark blue ‘interRAI Home Care assessment form and user’s Manual’ and orange ‘Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPS) For Use with Community and Long Term Care Assessment Instruments’ manual on your training days.
Community Health Assessment training
Community Health Assessment training is delivered by distance learning over two days with six weeks to complete the course.
Your allocated Educator will contact you prior to training and provide you with your login to the Momentum Production and Training sites and will support you throughout your training.
Once you have completed the initial training course, there are a range of steps to reach interRAI competency within the course timeframes. Please read the learning programme attached to your welcome email.
On your training days, you will need to have a copy of your organisation/facility’s dark blue ‘interRAI Community Health Assessment Form and User’s Manual’ and orange ‘Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPS) For Use with Community and Long Term Care Assessment Instruments’ manual on your training days.
Long Term Care Facilities assessment training
Long Term Care Facilities assessment training is delivered by distance learning over two days with six weeks to complete the course.
Your allocated Educator will contact you prior to training and provide you with your login to the Momentum Production and Training sites and will support you throughout your training.
Once you have completed the initial training course, there are a range of steps to reach interRAI competency within the course timeframes. Please read the learning programme attached to your welcome email.
On your training days, you will need to have a copy of your organisation/facility’s dark blue ‘interRAI Long Term Care Facilities Assessment Form and User’s Manual’ and orange ‘Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPS) For Use with Community and Long Term Care Assessment Instruments’ manual on your training days.
Resident information – required on day one of your training
You must gather some information about your resident before you begin the course.
Palliative Care assessment training
This course is only available for competent interRAI Home Care assessors. Palliative Care assessment training is delivered by distance learning with four weeks to complete the course.
Enrol for Palliative Care Assessment training by emailing us at interRAI@tas.health.nz
Palliative Care assessment training is delivered by distance with four weeks to complete the course.
Once you are confirmed for a place on this training course, your educator will contact you to provide further information about the training requirements.
Your pre-training requirements
To prepare for training, please
Complete the eLearning module, Level One Advance Care planning, or your DHB's equivalent course (this is a mandatory pre-requisite for training).
Make sure you have access to the correct manuals. You will need to have a copy of your organisatons/ facility’s ‘Palliative care Assessment Form and User’s Manual’ and ‘Palliative Care Clinical Assessment protocols (CAPS)’ manual for training.