This course is intended to provide general first aid guidelines. It should NOT replace your agency’s policies and procedures.
Obtaining vital signs is important in determining how the body is working. This course provides the steps to obtain, record, and report the vital signs of temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, and pain effectively and accurately.
Infectious diseases are difficult to manage in jails and prisons. Correctional staff are on the frontline to prevent, identify, and manage the spread. This course will teach about the chain of infection, challenges of controlling the spread of infectious diseases in healthcare, and actions caregivers can take to protect themselves in the facility. The goal of this course is to inform facilities about infectious diseases and actions they can take to control their spread.
Hours: 6
This course introduces the learner to the basics of medication management. The difference between medication administration and assistance with medication administration is reviewed. The older adult’s rights, challenges, and expectations regarding medication support are presented. Finally, this course presents the proper methods of medication management to ensure safety.
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative neurological disease. It destroys a person’s memory and ability to function on their own over time. Confusion and memory loss are the hallmark symptoms of each stage. As a caregiver, you will provide care to persons with Alzheimer’s disease. You need to be well-informed about the disease process and care strategies. This course will provide an overview of Alzheimer’s disease and strategies for person-centered care for those with Alzheimer’s disease.
The goal of this course is to educate general staff in all post-acute care settings about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
You will not have much time for decision making if you are ever confronted with a workplace fire. This course provides easy-to-remember steps and information about responding to and preventing fires, including using a fire extinguisher, and tips on reducing the chance of injury.
The goal of this course is to provide all staff with guidance to prevent and respond to fires.
The courses in the 12-Hour bundle are all accredited by the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB), as well as other accrediting organizations. This bundle includes an overview of Alzheimer’s disease and behavioral management techniques for residents with dementia; managing challenging resident behavior with a focus on person-centered care for residents with a dementia diagnosis; and instruction on activities of daily living and psychosocial care for residents with dementia .

“Training to Success”
general term used for a structured set of steps, habits, and principles designed to help someone improve skills and achieve goals in a specific area
A training guide to success is basically a roadmap that helps you go from where you are now → to where you want to be, using consistent practice and smart strategies.
The use of restraints increases a number of physical, mental, and emotional risks. Restraints can also cause both physical and emotional harm. It is important to recognize what restraints are and how you can help your organization create a restraint-free environment. This course discusses the risks of restraints, different types of restraints, and your role in creating a restraint-free environment. This course educates direct care workers in post-acute care on how to create a restraint-free environment.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommends all healthcare providers take workplace safety training to ensure a safe working condition. This course bundle will provide over 6 hours of interactive OSHA training using real-life scenarios, quizzes, and practice exercises. Learn about fundamental health and safety topics like bloodborne pathogens, fire safety, hazardous chemicals, infection control, workplace safety, and more. Add a short description.
About Workplace Violence
Basics of Personal Protective Equipment
Basics of Tuberculosis
Fire Safety: The Basics
Hand Hygiene Basics
Hazardous Chemicals: Safety Data Sheets and Labels
Hazardous Chemicals: The Essentials
Infection Control: Key Concepts and Practices
Lockout/Tagout Procedures
Minimizing Trips, Slips, and Falls
You work for a company that provides services to many people. You may need to discuss personal information about the people you serve, but this must be done thoughtfully. Everyone’s personal information must be kept safe.
This course provides rehabilitation therapists with best practices in home environment modifications to help individuals with dementia age in place. Case examples present simple strategies to create dementia-friendly environments that increase independence, engagement, comfort, and safety. This course teaches occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology professionals best practices in the development of dementia-friendly home environments. short description.
This course reviews for unlicensed staff the basics of the who, why, when, where, what, and how of medical record documentation in post-acute care settings.
Vulnerable Adult Protection Statutes, what constitutes abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation, and mandated reporting requirements. All caregivers are responsible for ensuring the safety of those in their care. This includes protecting them from abuse. Unfortunately, incidents of abuse and neglect often go unrecognized and unreported. This is why it is critical for all caregivers to be able to recognize potential abuse, know how to respond, and take steps to prevent abuse. This course aims to educate direct care professionals on how to recognize and prevent abuse.
Workplace conflict is inevitable. In this course, you will learn about implementing some evidence-based concepts that will foster a more supportive healthcare environment. You will also learn how different personality styles may impact interpersonal workplace relationships and patient outcomes. Supportive healthcare environments today thrive on teamwork and partnering with patients to achieve exceptional health outcomes.
This course is designed to help you understand the rights that each of your residents has while in your care. This course is also designed to help you ensure they enjoy those rights they deserve and recognize when those rights are being violated.
The goal of this course is to provide nonlicensed direct care staff in assisted living and nursing facilities with the knowledge of resident rights.
This HIPAA Package includes four audio-guided, interactive, scenario-based courses designed to help healthcare workers understand HIPAA. HIPAA training is required for everyone working in the healthcare industry with access to protected healthcare information (PHI). This package starts at the basics and dives deeper into how to navigate HIPAA in a modern, technological world. More information can be found within each individual course.
According to global health research, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) affects about 1 in 6 adults. This course explores the fundamentals of swallowing and practical care strategies to ensure safe eating, promote well-being, and enhance daily life. This course was reviewed and approved by qualified subject matter expert Dr. Nebart Nyaga, a registrar in surgery and endoscopist. Enrol now to learn techniques that improve swallowing and well being.
The purpose of this course is to teach unregulated staff working in non-hospital care settings or facilities how to assist individuals with the self-administration of their medications. You will learn about medication types and orders. This includes the instructions often found in medication orders and what they mean. You will also learn how to recognize a medication order that requires judgement and detect when information is missing or incorrect.
Assisting with medications must be specifically part of your job description and within your scope of practice in your province. Provincial or territorial legislation, your organization’s policies and procedures, and your training and education will determine your role in assisting with medications.
The goal of this course is to provide unregulated workers in all post-acute settings with the knowledge to assist individuals with safely self-administering medications.
End-of-Life-Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a national education initiative to improve palliative care. ELNEC Core Curriculum is designed to train nurses, undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, administrators, and researchers on fundamental palliative skills.
Approximately 18,000 nurses and healthcare professionals have been trained on pain and symptom management, ethical and cultural considerations, grief and loss, and communication skills using this curriculum.
Writing incident reports is an important part of providing direct support services. Your reports help the person's support team respond effectively to their needs and keep them safe in the future.
The goal of this course is to teach DSPs in IDD settings the key elements of an incident report, why they are important, and how to write them effectivelAdd a short description. Incident reporting is a performance improvement and quality care component used in all healthcare settings. Incident reports help healthcare management quickly identify problematic trends and prioritize corrective actions. This course discusses the incident reporting process for improving safety and quality of care.
Effective communication with patients and families is the foundation for a therapeutic, safe, and positive patient experience. The patient‘s experience of care is greatly influenced by what is communicated and observed. It is also a vital component of obtaining an accurate history and physical assessment, providing informed, comprehensive care, and educating patients and families to achieve optimal outcomes. The goal of this course is to provide information about how to effectively communicate with patients in healthcare settings.
Care teams are crucial for every aspect of healthcare. This course will review care team best practices which contain three important pillars: Collaboration, communication, and role definition as they relate to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With effective care teams, patient outcomes also improve, including decreased safety events, preventable diagnostic errors, and readmissions to hospitals. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chronic lower respiratory conditions like COPD and asthma are the sixth leading cause of death (CDC, 2022b). Therefore, it is important to recognize the need for effective healthcare team approaches to improve patient outcomes for those with asthma and COPD.
This course is about workplace slip, trip, and fall hazards. It alerts you to the serious consequences that can result even from a simple fall or a near fall and provides information about measures that can help you prevent these incidents and reduce potential injuries.
The goal of this course is to help all employees minimize trips, slips, and falls.
The mental capacity assessment helps to determine the person's ability to make a specific decision. This course for caregivers and mental health practitioners explains how to assess mental capacity. We begin with the definition of ‘mental capacity’ and go over the relevant UK legislation, the code of practice and the five core principles used to gauge mental capacity. We discuss how to make ‘best interest’ decisions and handle disagreements.
Autism course explores theory and practice for supporting children on the spectrum. Explore childhood developmental milestones and learn practical, strength-based strategies for building social and communication skills, including engaging in conversations, and managing meltdowns. Discover communication methods like PECS, and the power of pretend play to support children in developing social skills. Enroll today!
The growing number of children with disabilities is a concern that demands more awareness and caregiving competence. We discuss the responsibilities of carers, which include family members and professionals. This course discusses the various disabilities children suffer and the effects they have on quality of life. We explore the principles of residential care, including child-led provision, assessment and effective residential care planning.
Every day, you encounter harmful germs that can make you and others in your environment sick. So how do you protect yourself and others from these harmful germs? By following proper infection control practices. Hand hygiene is the single most important infection control measure to prevent the spread of germs.
The goal of this course is to instruct all employees about when hand hygiene is necessary as well as the correct procedure for hand washing and the use of alcohol-based hand rubs. The goal of this course is to instruct all employees about when hand hygiene is necessary as well as the correct procedure for handwashing and the use of alcohol-based hand rubs.
This course discusses how to recognize, prevent, and report resident-to-resident bullying. It gives you the tools needed to better understand your role and responsibilities in preventing and reporting bullying behaviors in your organization.
The goal of this course is to educate staff in long-term care settings on resident-to-resident bullying.
Every customer takes a risk in trusting others with important parts of their life. They are asked to have faith in another person’s skills, knowledge, and good will. Customer service is a way of communicating that this trust is not misplaced.
In this course, you will learn and practice ways to communicate respect, attentiveness, and empathy in a variety of situations. The skills you learn in this course are meant to help you in your everyday interactions and in situations when you need to defuse a negative impression and recover a customer relationship.
The goal of this course is to educate all staff on the basics of customer service.
The course introduces the foundational communication skills that are essential for delivering effective and compassionate care. Good communication helps prevent mistakes, makes people feel respected, and improves teamwork.
This course provides non-licensed direct care workers in post-acute care with an overview of professional communication.
Our 40 Hour Initial Caregiver Training Program is ideal for RCFE administrators or a licensees looking to purchase initial training for their care staff. This 40 Hour Initial Caregiver Training Program covers California DSS training topic requirements, including client care, medications, staffing, clinical needs, management, and regulations.
In conjunction with completing this training program, administrators/licensees must document at least 16-hours of hands-on training for all new caregivers.
Evaluating older adults with a complaint of dizziness can be a challenge; there can be several contributing factors to dizziness and symptoms can be difficult for the patient to describe. Determining the source of the dizziness is key to selecting the most effective intervention. This course guides therapy professionals in the evaluation of patients with dizziness and differentiation between central and peripheral causes of dizziness. Clinical pearls for assessing patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia who complain of dizziness are presented.
This course teaches the core aspects of epilepsy, suitable for both beginners and those seeking a review of the disease. It provides detailed guidance on seizure first aid, positioning techniques, breathing support, and post-seizure care, along with safety considerations for the entire day, regardless of the environment. It also covers emergency response, rescue medications, seizure tracking, public situations, and community awareness.
Are you struggling with challenging behaviours in caregiving? In this course, "Caregiver Strategies: Challenging Behaviours," you'll learn behaviour management, communication techniques, legal and ethical considerations, practical strategies, and self-care methods.
As we age, our bodies change, and with those changes come alterations in our nutritional requirements. This course explores the role a well-balanced meal plays in ensuring healthy ageing. Learn to adapt diets for age-related health conditions, manage drug and food interactions, and handle food allergies and intolerances. Additionally, you'll discover the benefits of active ageing and mindful eating while managing appetite and taste changes.
Social media and other forms of electronic communication allow people to instantly share pictures and messages with anyone, anywhere. But as the opportunities to share information online have increased, so have the challenges for keeping information private.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was designed to protect individuals’ rights and their personal healthcare information. HIPAA applies to both the storage and transfer of electronic protected health information, so these electronic communications must be handled carefully.
The goal of this course is to make all employees more aware of how to comply with HIPAA when using electronic communication.
Basic life skills such as bathing and dressing are referred to as activities of daily living, or ADLs. A person with Alzheimer’s disease slowly forgets how to complete ADLs. This course describes the ADL changes in each stage of Alzheimer’s disease. It also discusses strategies to use to help the person complete their ADLs.
The goal of this course is to teach direct care workers in post-acute care how to assist with ADLs for a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
Telehealth has improved access to behavioral health assessments. However, there are key considerations for clinicians who assess clients over telehealth. This course explains ways that telehealth assessments are different from those that occur in person. It identifies telehealth-specific techniques for clinical assessments and ways to overcome common challenges when assessing clients over telehealth.
The Dementia Care course from ECJ teaches proper dementia care. Dementia refers to a spectrum of brain disorders that involve difficulty with memory and thinking. This course will introduce you to the main symptoms and treatments of dementia as well as Alzheimer’s disease. You will also learn about the characteristics of people with dementia and the guidelines for choosing activities that are stimulating for them.
Caregiver training course will give you an understanding of the basics of caregiving, including legal and ethical responsibilities and working as part of a team. Caregivers are highly valued and in-demand professionals who make a big difference to the health organizations they work for. This course will give you a full run-through of these essential concepts so that you can give your caregiving career a real boost today.
Master the skills you need to become an accomplished caregiver with this free course for carers. You will learn how to tend to clients safely, protecting them from infectious diseases and foodborne illnesses, and look after their basic nutritional and hydration needs. The course will teach you how to deal with emergencies in a professional manner and the plans that should be in place for emergencies that may arise, so why wait and enroll today.
Safeguarding vulnerable adults teaches you how to protect people and raise concerns regarding their well-being. We explain the 'Disclosure and Barring Service' checks that prevent harm to British children and certain adults. You'll learn to spot the signs of abuse and neglect while also covering how to appropriately share information with relevant bodies, keeping to the 'seven golden rules' of sharing such information.
Cardiac development produces rapid clinical changes, creating a need for nurses and healthcare providers to be educated on the most recent treatment and care expertise. The course 'Nursing Fundamentals of the Cardiovascular System' explores all you need to know about risk factors and preventative measures. It delves into cardiac issues, including heart failure, inflammations and valve abnormalities, to enrich your cardiology nursing skills
Are you looking to provide the best possible care for others and ensure their wellbeing? This course explores the legal aspects of healthcare and caregiving and explains how to manage incidents, near misses and errors that lead to breaches of duty of care. We discuss patients’ rights and consent regarding students' involvement in patient care. We lay out the safety responsibilities of care workers and employers and employees
Taking care of children is a demanding task but the proper knowledge and experience can make it fun. You will learn how to take care of children by keeping them safe and healthy at different stages of their development. We will explore how to fulfil children's needs, give them the right food and environment to grow, protect them against abuse and neglect and encourage play for learning and experience
This course will help you understand one model of healthy development, called Maslow's theory of human needs. You'll learn about the basic needs of all human beings, the growth needs that depend on the basic needs, and how Maslow's model affects the way you care for children.
Course Description
The courses in the 6-Hour NAB Bundle are all accredited by the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) and other accrediting organizations. This bundle includes information on behavior management for residents with a dementia diagnosis, the causes, progression, and management of dementia and Alzheimer's disease; identifying and mitigating safety risks for residents with dementia and Alzheimer's disease; and instruction on psychosocial care and management of activities of daily living for residents with dementia.
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: ADLs and Behaviors
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Behaviors
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Communication Needs
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Psychosocial Needs
An Overview of Quality Dementia Care
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Basic First Aid and CPR
Checking and Recording Vital Signs
Management/care of contagious or
Communicable Disease and Infectious Control
Medication Management (i.e. storage, administration, receiving orders, securing - Licensed Instructor Only)
Medication Assistance
Dementia/Alzheimer’s/Cognitive Disability
Proper Lifting and Transfer Techn
Basic First Aid and CPR
Checking and Recording Vital Signs
Management/care of contagious or
Communicable Disease and Infectious Control
Medication Management (i.e. storage, administration, receiving orders, securing - Licensed Instructor Only)
Medication Assistance
Dementia/Alzheimer’s/Cognitive Disability
Proper Lifting and Transfer Techniques
Restraints – No Restraints
OSHA (including blood-borne pathogens)
Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships
Confidentiality
Client Rights Resident Rights
Fire Response Training - With 24 hours of start
Emergency Procedures/Disaster Preparedness (within 24 hours of Start)
Documentation and record-keeping
Facility Organization and Environment
Prevention abuse neglect mandated reporting
Alcohol & Drug Policy
Incident reports, accident reports, and writing
Safety-Clean work environment/hand washing
Reporting & Documenting Participant Care

Patients, especially those with serious health issues, prefer the company of family and friends in the comfort of their own home to a prolonged stay in a nursing home or hospital.
A Home Health Nurse would typically need to:
Patients, especially those with serious health issues, prefer the company of family and friends in the comfort of their own home to a prolonged stay in a nursing home or hospital.
A Home Health Nurse would typically need to:
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