This module addresses the adjustment period faced by clients when they move to a new environment.

This course provides an overview of bathing, oral hygiene, toileting, dressing, grooming, eating and transferring.

This course provides an overview of IADLs including housework, meal preparation, understanding prescribed medications, shopping, telephone use and transportation.

This course is filled with tip after tip for keeping both clients and caregivers safe in the home environment.

This course includes information about cleaning supplies, tips for efficient and effective cleaning, doing laundry and stopping the spread of infection.

This course includes information on disinfecting surfaces, doing laundry, “sharps” disposal, household pests and food safety.

A lesson for caregivers on basic legal concepts including negligence, standards of care, confidentiality, and informed consent.

This course reviews the difference between personal and professional relationships.

This course reviews everything your caregivers need to know about maintaining your clients? confidentiality.

This course reviews proper body mechanics and explains why they aren’t enough to prevent back injuries.

This course explains how to read an OTC medication lable, gives tips to guard against tampering, and discusses how OTC medications may affect children and the elderly.

This lesson provides caregivers with a description of oxygen therapy and which clients may need it.

This inservice contains basic information about the musculoskeletal system, especially the joints.

A lesson for caregivers on the basics of mouth care, including the importance and benefits of good oral hygiene.

This course provides important information about basic body mechanics, transfer techniques, and the nine steps for safe lifting.

A discussion of personal safety issues for caregivers and home health aides.

A review of the growing problem of pertussis (whooping cough) in the elderly.

This course includes tips for preventing falls in hospitals, long term care facilities, and in clients’ homes.

This course provides caregivers with pertinent information about the causes of pressure ulcers and tips for preventing pressure ulcers.

A lesson for caregivers about influenza that teaches the difference between a cold, the flu and pneumonia.

All clients, regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, gender, age, or disability should be treated as human beings who deserve the same kindness, respect, and dignity as anyone else. This course offers a review of the unique healthcare needs of your LGBTQ+ clients.

This course focuses on observing vital signs, pain, mental status, nutrition, elimination, skin and family relationships–and how to recognize abnormal findings.

This course helps caregivers understand their role in reducing and preventing readmissions to the hospital.

This lesson provides caregivers with a review of the basic principles of client care documentation, including the ethics and legalities involved in documentation.

An up-to-date overview of sexual harassment including the definition of sexual harassment, who it affects and types of sexual harassment.

This important topic deals with the most common special communication needs, including problems that arise from sensory issues, stroke, dementia and language differences.

This OSHA mandatory topic explains the “chain of infection” and how caregivers can break the chain to prevent infections.

This module gives caregivers a review of spinal anatomy and explains why healthcare workers are at high risk for back injuries.

This inservice includes basic information about death and the grief process, the importance of listening and tips on verbal non-verbal communication with dying clients and their families.

This course provides a general overview of the basic principles and procedures of medication administration.

This inservice outlines (by body system) the normal changes that come with aging.

A lesson on Animal Assisted Therapy and the caregivers’ role in assisting with these services.

This inservice offers a reminder of how important elimination is to health and well being.

This course provides an overview of the problem of abuse, including elder, child, physical, emotional, financial and sexual abuse.

An inservice for caregivers that covers advance directives including definitions, legal and moral aspects and the relationship of advance directives to patient rights.

This course provides background on the basic biology of Alzheimer’s disease, its three stages and how it is diagnosed and treated.