Self-paced continuing-education courses for CNAs, LVNs, RNs and the whole care team — spanning patient care, dementia, infection prevention, safety, medications and more. Every course awards a certificate of completion toward your license-renewal requirements.
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Looking Beyond Words, Part 1 - Dementia in the
In dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, patients experience a progressive decline in their ability to express themselves verbally. As verbal l… |
Dementia | 50 min | |
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Maintaining Daily Routines
The purpose of activities for individuals with dementia is not merely to keep them busy but to provide meaningful engagement. In long-term care setti… |
Dementia | 53 min | |
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Managing Difficult Resident Behavior
In long-term care settings, CNAs frequently encounter residents who display challenging or difficult behaviors. These behaviors may include verbal ag… |
Dementia | 50 min | |
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Nutrition and Hydration for the Person with Dementia
Individuals with dementia are at high risk for dehydration due to multiple factors: inability to express thirst, apraxia (inability to initiate previ… |
Dementia | 50 min | |
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Successful Activities Using Sensory Stimulation
Sensory stimulation is a therapeutic approach used in long-term care to maintain and improve residents' connection to their environment, themselves, … |
Dementia | 51 min | |
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The Older Adult, Dementia and Assisted Bathing
For residents with dementia, the bathing experience can be unpleasant and upsetting. Shower or tub rooms are often cold and noisy. Tubs and shower eq… |
Dementia | 53 min | |
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Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Related
Dementia is a chronic, generally progressive, disabling decline in cognition, functioning, and behavior. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause… |
Dementia | 53 min | |
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Unmet Needs of the Cognitively Impaired
The unmet needs model proposes that behavioral symptoms in dementia (agitation, aggression, wandering, calling out) often represent attempts to commu… |
Dementia | 1 hr 22 min | |
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Comfort Care at the End of Life
Comfort care, also called palliative care, provides relief through pain and symptom management to a person who is suffering at any stage of an illnes… |
End-of-Life & Hospice | 52 min | |
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Dying Patients - Their Families and Caregivers
Nearly three-fourths of all Americans die in hospitals and long-term care facilities, yet few are prepared to offer the care patients most need at en… |
End-of-Life & Hospice | 53 min | |
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New Rules of End-of-Life Care
End-of-life care represents a fundamentally different approach from curative or rehabilitative care. The focus shifts from treating disease to ensuri… |
End-of-Life & Hospice | 50 min | |
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Bloodborne Pathogens
OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: how to protect yourself from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials through universal pre… |
Infection Prevention | 32 min | |
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Can MRSA Be Cured
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has developed resistance to many common antibiotics. Fir… |
Infection Prevention | 51 min | |
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Community-Associated MRSA
Staphylococcus aureus (commonly called "staph") is a type of bacteria commonly carried on the skin or in the nose of healthy people. According to the… |
Infection Prevention | 50 min | |
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Developing Knowledge and Skill in Hand Hygiene
Orientation in-service: Developing Knowledge and Skill in Hand Hygiene. Watch the video, review the material, then pass the post-test. |
Infection Prevention | 25 min | |
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Donning and Doffing of PPE
Orientation in-service: Donning and Doffing of PPE. Watch the video, review the material, then pass the post-test. |
Infection Prevention | 25 min | |
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Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes
Orientation in-service: Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes. Watch the video, review the material, then pass the post-test. |
Infection Prevention | 24 min | |
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Hand Hygiene - Protecting those in your Care
In the 1840s, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis conducted one of the first epidemiological studies linking hand contamination to maternal mortality at the Royal H… |
Infection Prevention | 51 min | |
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HIV & AIDS - Transmission, Management and
HIV is transmitted through contact with infected blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. The virus targets CD4+ T lymphocytes, progressive… |
Infection Prevention | 50 min | |
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How to Have Healthy Feet as a Diabetic
Diabetes damages the feet through multiple mechanisms. Peripheral neuropathy impairs sensation, preventing detection of injuries. Impaired circulatio… |
Infection Prevention | 50 min | |
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Infection Control
Orientation in-service: Infection Control. Watch the video, review the material, then pass the post-test. |
Infection Prevention | 57 min | |
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Proper Cleaning Techniques for Dirty Hands
Hand hygiene is the single most important practice for preventing the spread of infections in healthcare settings. Germs—tiny pathogenic microorganis… |
Infection Prevention | 50 min | |
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Protect Yourself - HIV & AIDS
HIV is transmitted through unprotected sexual contact with an infected partner, contact with infected blood (needle sharing), and mother-to-child tra… |
Infection Prevention | 50 min | |
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Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections in healthcare settings, particularly affecting women, older adults, and catheter… |
Infection Prevention | 51 min | |
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Reducing the Risk of Healthcare Associated
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) affect millions of patients annually, increasing morbidity, mortality, length of stay, and healthcare costs. … |
Infection Prevention | 53 min |
