REQUIRED: Essentials of Safe Care and Transfers (8 hours)

MUST KNOW care skills to perform transfers and care SAFELY, EASILY, and EFFECTIVELY. Includes lessons and quizzes on safe body movement, reducing lifting, common equipment and transfers, bed level care, caring for people with dementia, documentation.

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Course curriculum

1. A message from your instructor
2. How to use this course
3. Before we begin...
1. Professional non-medical caregiving: Roles, Responsibilities, and Being a "Pro"
1. Transfer training foundations: What are good body mechanics, and how can we use them to lift more safely and easily?
2. What Good Body Mechanics Look Like... in REAL Life.
3. Body mechanics wrap-up!
4. Test your learning
1. Why reducing what you have to lift is VITAL!
2. 3 Simple Concepts to Make Transfers Easier, Prevent Falls, and Reduce Lifting
3. Test your learning
1. Intro to Gait Belts
2. The Easy Way to Put on A Gait Belt
3. Using a Gait Belt to Stop a Fall
4. Safety with Gait Belts
5. Test your learning
1. Intro to Bed Mobility
2. How to get someone up from bed
3. Bed Mobility Wrap Up
4. Test your learning
1. Intro to Stand and Squat Pivot Transfers
2. How to do the most common type of transfer (Stand and Squat Pivot Transfers!)
3. Test your learning
1. Wheelchair parts and how to use them
2. Basic transfers with wheelchairs
3. Wheelchair Wrap-up
4. Test your learning
1. Why knowing about walkers matters
2. What are the different parts of walkers, and how do they work?
3. How to transfer using a walker
4. Test your learning
1. Why Bedside Commodes Matter
2. Parts of the bedside commode and how they work
3. How to transfer to a bedside commode
4. Test your learning
1. The What, When, and How of Tub Transfer Benches
2. Keeping the floor dry when using a tub bench
3. Test your learning
1. Introduction to Bed Level Care
2. Dressing at the Bed Level
3. Bed Level Toileting
4. Bed Level Bathing and Draping.... (And What "Draping" is)
5. Test your learning
1. Intro to Car Transfers
2. The Most Important Part is ALWAYS the Plan
3. Step by Step Car Transfers
4. Car Transfers with Wheelchairs
5. Equipment for Greater Ease!
6. Test your Knowledge
1. Intro to Falls... KNOW and FOLLOW Your State and Employer Policy!
2. Fall Recovery Best Practice: How to help someone up.... by helping their self.
3. What to do when someone cannot get up from a fall
4. Fall Recovery Wrap Up
5. Test your learning
1. Introduction to dementia... more than just memory!
2. Dementia: What functions does it effect?
3. How to make it easier... using the DEFFT method!
4. Transfer and caregiving tips and tricks for folks with dementia
5. Preventing and managing anger and agitation in folks with dementia
6. Test your learning
1. Why We Document
2. WHAT to Document
3. Documentation: What is "Objective" information, and WHY is it so important?
4. "Don'ts" of Documentation
5. Documentation Guide: The "Care Sandwich"
6. Documentation Examples
7. Test your learning
1. Congrats! Here's what's next...
2. More resources for you
3. Before you go...

About this course

$55.00
70 lessons
6 hours of video content

REQUIRED: Essentials of Safe Care and Transfers (8 hours)

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course!

Professional Caregiver: Roles, Responsibilities, and Being a "Pro"

Good body mechanics: Your best friend!

Rules to reduce lifting while providing care

What, When, and How: Gait Belts

Transfer Basics: Bed mobility, and getting someone up from bed

Transfer Basics: How to perform the most common types of transfers

Common equipment to know and love: Wheelchairs

Common equipment to know and love: Walkers

Common equipment to know and love: Bedside commodes

Common Equipment to know and love: Tub Transfer Benches

Caring for Someone While in Bed (at "Bed Level")

Car transfers!

Fall Recovery: What to do if someone falls

Caring for Clients with Dementia

Documentation: Your Other Best Friend (Really, It's True!)

You did it! This is the LAST thing before you get your certificate!

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