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Seminars
All Courses are NAB approved!!
Abuse Detection and Reporting
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs including 4 Ethics hrs
This course provides a review of the Signs and Symptoms of Abuse, Screening Techniques for Identifying Abuse and Neglect, Cultural Considerations, Legal Aspects, Ways to Determine if Normal Aging Processes are being Mistaken for Abuse and Neglect, Prevention, Investigation, Documentation, Reportable Incidents, Written Investigation Reporting Requirements and the Medical Aspects of Neglect.
Business Ethics Principles in Team Development
NAB Approved | 10 Ethics hrs
This course provides a common sense, practical approach to doing good work, emphasizing the need to prepare in advance for ethical dilemmas. This course takes an honest, realistic view of how managers can help improve ethical behavior in the rushed, output-driven business environment. This course teaches practical methods for establishing and maintaining teams that maximize the collective strengths of the members.
Human Resources General Overview
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs including 4 Ethics hrs
Learn how to manage your employees – legally. In this course you will learn (1) how to comply with the ADA requirements during the hiring process, (2) the definition of at-will employment and the four key exceptions, (3) how company policies are essential tools for preventing trouble in the workplace, (4) a three-step process in handling workplace issues, (5) how to take action in becoming more assertive, (6) understand the discrimination laws and how to avoid illegal discrimination, (7) the elements of an effective harassment policy, (8) the FLSA requirements for pay requirements, documenting hours and wages of employees, (9) the coverage and conditions under the FMLA for employees and employers, (10) the constitutional protections for free speech in the workplace, (11) how to accommodate religious beliefs, (11) how to identify substance abuse by employees and the regulations for drug testing, (12) the three principles of keeping interviews within legal boundaries (13) the restrictions involved in termination of an employee, (14) how to prevent company lawsuits and (15) the top ten issues when interacting with employees and how to stay on the right side of the law.
Management Concepts and Resident Characteristics & Assessments
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs including 4 Ethics hrs
This course provides a common sense, practical approach to budget preparation and financial statements. This course also defines 'Diversity Effectiveness' and gives steps to 'Diversity Effectiveness' and how they can be applied. Learn and understand the characteristics of residents in long-term care facilities and how to assess those characteristics. These characteristics include Alzheimer’s, anxiety, arthritis, cholesterol, congestive heart failure, cold and flu, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia diabetes, disabilities, heart disease, high blood pressure, incontinence, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s, and stroke. You will also gain a basic understanding of the financial concepts, community resources and customer service that are necessary managing the operations of an assisted living facility.
Medication & Pharmacy Overview
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs including 4 Ethics hrs
This course provides a review of CMS regulations and guidelines for clarity and intent pertaining to F-Tag 329 regarding unnecessary drugs; F-Tag 332 & 333 regarding medication errors; and F-Tag 425 regarding pharmacy services.
Restraint Reduction
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs including 4 Ethics hrs
What qualifies as a restraint? What are the risks or benefits for using restraints as accident prevention or care convenience? This course provides a review of CMS regulations and guidelines for clarity and intent as pertaining to restraint use in resident care; identify and review prohibited restraint use and viable alternatives that allow the reduction or elimination of restraints in the facility.
Texas Licensing Standards for Assisted Living Facilities Handbook
NAB Approved | 8 CE hrs
Review the Standards that apply to the day-to-day operations of an assisted living facility.
Self-Study Courses
Advance Directives
NAB Approved | 5 CE hrs
Patients have the constitutional right to make decisions regarding their own medical care. This right includes the right to refuse medical treatment, even if treatment is necessary to prevent the patient from dying. A patient's right to request that medical treatment be withheld or withdrawn does not change, even when the patient loses the capacity to make the request. An Advance Directive is a legal document intended to ensure that healthcare providers honor a patient's decisions regarding treatment, even when he or she is no longer able to communicate those decisions. Topics include: Living Wills; Medical Power of Attorney; DNR Orders and Medical Treatment Plans.
Back Safety
NAB Approved | 5 CE hrs
The healthcare environment is a high-risk area for back pain and injury. Nursing personnel and aides suffer more back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) than does any other occupation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Fortunately, proper posture, body mechanics, and regular exercise, along with appropriate use of lifting equipment and devices, can help reduce the risk of back injury for healthcare providers. Topics include:Spinal Anatomy & Physiology; Safe Operation of the Spine; and Preventive Maintenance & corrective Action.
End of Life
NAB Approved | 5 CE hrs
Death can be frightening. This can be especially true for patients in the terminal stages of chronic disease. These patients often wish for a 'good death.' However, they often fear that they will die alone, in pain, abandoned by their caregivers. Clinicians must provide excellent end-of-life care to all dying patients. In this way, clinicians can help patients have a 'good death', calm the fears of dying patients and support the patient's family. Topics include: Curative vs. Palliative Care; Barriers to Adequate Palliative Care; Addressing the needs of the dying Patient; and Addressing the needs of the Family.
Fire Safety
NAB Approved | 3 CE hrs
Residents in healthcare facilities often suffer from physical and/or mental conditions that prevent them from protecting themselves. For this reason, fires in healthcare facilities are particularly dangerous. With proper fire safety awareness, you can help prevent fire-related danger by taking steps to prevent fires in your facility. With adequate fire-response training, you can help minimize potential fire-related injury and loss of life, by knowing what to do in the event of a fire. Topics include: Fire Prevention; Facility Safeguards; and Fire Response.
Infection Control
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
This course is designed to introduce you to the basic principles of infection transmission in healthcare settings, including methods commonly used to reduce transmission risk for residents, personnel, and visitors. Topics include: Chain of Infection; Infection Prevention; Employee Health; and Individual Responsibility.
Medical Ethics
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
Medical ethics refers to the discussion about choices and values in medical practice and the duty of healthcare providers. It examines questions of moral right and wrong. This course will help you understand what you should and should not do as a healthcare provider and how to do your job in an ethical way. You will learn about the four basic ethical principles for healthcare providers and ethics around specific issues in healthcare today. Topics include: Patient-Provider Relationship; Near the End-of-Life Issues; and Practice, Society & Colleagues.
OSHA Basics: Module I
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
Describe and increase awareness of OSHA requirements for Safety and Health for employees and employers in Long Term Care Facilities. Topics include: Protecting Nursing Home Workers, Ergonomics and Biological & Infectious Agents.
OSHA Basics: Module II
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
Describe and increase awareness of OSHA requirements for Safety and Health for employees and employers in Long Term Care Facilities. Topics include: Blood Borne Pathogens; Slips, Trips & Falls; Portable Ladders; How OSHA Writes Standards; Electrical Safety; Machine Guarding; and Lockout.
OSHA Basics: Module III
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
Describe and increase awareness of OSHA requirements for Safety and Health for employees and employers in Long Term Care Facilities. Topics include: How OSHA Conducts Inspections, Chemicals & Hazard Communications, Workplace Violence, Elements of an Effective Safety & Health Program and New Ways of Working with OSHA.
Regulatory Compliance Overview I
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
This course provides essential information for veteran clinical healthcare staff. In this course, the participant will review and update knowledge of Compliance and Ethics ~ Corporate Compliance, Medical Ethics, and Sexual Harassment; Patient Rights ~ Confidentiality, Patient Participation in Treatment Decisions, Disclosure and Informed Consent, Advance Directives, Access to Emergency Service, Respect, Safety, and Nondiscrimination, and Grievances; and Patient Care and Protection ~ Developmentally Appropriate Care, Cultural Competence, Restraint and Seclusion, Patient Assault and Abuse in the healthcare setting and Victims of Abuse and Neglect.
Regulatory Compliance Overview II
NAB Approved | 6 CE hrs
This course provides essential information for veteran clinical healthcare staff. In this course, the participant will review and update knowledge of Safety ~ General Safety; Fire Safety; Electrical Safety; Radiation Safety; MRI Safety; Ergonomics; Back Safety; Lifting and Transporting Patients; Slips, Trips, and Falls; Latex Allergy; Hazard Communication; Security & Workplace Violence; and Reporting Incidents; Emergency Preparedness ~ Disaster Events and Emergency Response Plans; and Infection Control ~ Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI); Hand Hygiene; Antibiotic Resistance; The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard; Standard Precautions; Transmission Based Precautions; Personal Protective Equipment; and Personal Responsibility.
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