In pursuit of our goal to inspire caregiving excellence, we continue with
our mission to improve and expand our course offerings.
You can learn about every one of our 125+ e-learning
courses in our new, downloadable course catalog.
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But, here’s a peak at the new e-learning courses we’ve added:
Client Care Modules:
Handling Incontinence of the Bowel and Bladder
Incontinence is one of the main reason’s family caregivers seek professional help with caring for their loved ones. That’s why it’s so important that your caregivers remain ‘in the know’ about what they can do to help. This course serves as a review of incontinence and how caregivers can help the clients who suffer from it.
Reducing & Preventing Readmissions to the Hospital
Preventing readmission doesn’t end when a person leaves the hospital. In fact, that’s often when it begins! When a newly discharged client is added to your home health roster, the entire team accepts the responsibility to help that client follow discharge instructions, take medications properly and to make and keep follow-up appointments. This course helps caregivers understand their role in this process.
Intimacy in the Elderly
This lesson covers all the different types of intimacy, health benefits associated with intimate relationships, and intimacy among people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Caregivers learn the importance of preserving their clients’ dignity—while also protecting them from themselves and others.
Understanding Brain & Spinal Cord Injuries
This course gives caregivers an overview of how brain and spinal cord injuries can affect clients. Includes information about nervous system, brain and spinal cord injuries, the emotional effects of TBIs and SCIs and the possible physical complications from neurological injuries. Caregivers will gain knowledge of these complex injuries–and learn a number of tips for supporting injured clients.
Bathing Tips
This course provides a review of bath time personal care procedures, including bed bath, tub bath, shower, use of shower chair, shampoo, sitz bath, etc. Provides many practical tips to help improve the provision, safety and documentation of personal care.
Helping New Clients Adjust
This module addresses the adjustment period faced by clients when they move to a new environment. It includes information about how to tell if a client is adjusting, the importance of first impressions, helping new clients feel “at home,” and how the risk for falls increases in a new environment. This inservice also covers the emotional and social adjustments required of new clients, how the Patient Bill of Rights fits in and how caregivers can help during those important first few weeks.
A Communications Module:
Dealing with Family Members
This course discusses how a family’s history impacts how they deal with a loved one’s illness. Learners will review the reasons why a client’s family members may be stressed, how to deal with overwhelmed, absent, argumentative or grieving family members, and how children are affected when a loved one is ill. This lesson also outlines how HIPAA rules affect communication with family members.
Disease Process Modules:
Understanding Heart Attacks
This inservice contains basic information about heart attacks, including their causes, symptoms and treatments. Includes tips for how aides can help their clients prevent heart disease, how to recognize the symptoms of a heart attack and how to help clients who are recovering from heart attacks.
Understanding Dementia
This course provides caregivers with a detailed overview of several types of dementia that they may encounter with their clients. Provides many practical tips to guide caregivers on how to help clients with dementia meet their daily challenges.
An Infection Control Module:
Understanding Drug Resistant Bacteria
A review of drug- resistant bacteria (such as MRSA and VRE), including the causes, symptoms and treatments for these infectious diseases. Gives tips for how caregivers can protect themselves and their clients from these deadly bugs.
A Patient Rights Module:
Maintaining Confidentiality
Your caregivers are trusted each day with confidential information about your clients. This course reviews everything they need to know about maintaining your clients? confidentiality. Caregivers will learn what to do and what not to do. And, they’ll learn all about the laws and consequences that are in place to protect clients.
Professional Growth Modules:
Stress Management Skills
Physically, stress can be damaging to your overall health. Mentally, it can interfere with concentration and decision-making. Emotionally, stress can affect the way you interact with co-workers, loved ones, and others around you. This module will help your caregivers learn how to manage stress through four steps: Awareness, Acceptance, Coping, and Action. This lesson also includes dozens of stress management tips that your caregivers can utilize during their daily work.
Dealing with the Bully at Work
This module provides caregivers with a review of bullying in the healthcare environment–including what it is, who is doing it, and what they can do to make it stop!
Safety Modules:
Fire Prevention & Safety
This course includes important information about fire safety–whether caregivers work in a facility or in a client’s home. It includes basic information about types and causes of fires, how to prevent fires, how to respond to a fire, the use of fire extinguishers, and how to protect clients during a fire. A MANDATORY OSHA TOPIC!
Preventing Employee Falls in the Healthcare Workplace
Simply by working in the healthcare field, the risk for falls on the job is much greater than in any other career. This inservice provides an extensive review of how to prevent workplace falls–whether your caregivers work in a hospital, a long term care facility, or in client homes. Also included in this topic is the protocol or procedure to follow if an injury occurs from a fall while on the job.
A CPR Update
This module provides caregivers with a review of the anatomy of the heart and lungs, the chain of survival and the C-A-Bs of CPR. It includes information on using an AED, managing a choking adult or a choking child, and recognizing opioid overdoses. Please note: this course is not intended to serve as a certification in CPR but rather as a review or introduction to basic CPR guidelines.
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