Courses

Foodborne Illness is a common health issue. The good news? It is very preventable! In this course, you will learn what foodborne illness is, how it is contracted and the ways you can prevent it. If you prepare or eat food, you can benefit from this training!

In this course, you will learn the responsibilities involved with becoming a caregiver and how to cue, coach and assist residents with various tasks and activities of daily living.

Foodborne Illness is a common health issue. The good news? It is very preventable! In this course, you will learn what foodborne illness is, how it is contracted and the ways you can prevent it. If you prepare or eat food, you can benefit from this training!

There has been a recent resurgence in bedbug infestations worldwide, particularly in developed countries, including the United States. Although having bed bugs is not generally considered a health threat, living with them can be a traumatic experience and properly eliminating bed bugs is a time-consuming and expensive task. This course focuses on providing the basic information that is needed to control bed bugs, as well as teaching you how to identify and prevent bed bug infestations.

In this course, you will learn how to create a team from the ground up, using your end goals to guide your decisions. We will discuss common characteristics exhibited by successful, and unsuccessful, teams, and offer methods for encouraging your team members to trust and openly communicate with one another.

Because the elderly are often dependent on others for their care, they can be targets for abuse, neglect and exploitation. Further, because victims of elder mistreatment rarely seek help or report the problem, it falls on care givers to always be on the lookout for abuse of any kind. In this course we will discuss common types of abuse faced by the elderly and discuss the importance of awareness, the first step in the prevention of this type of abuse.

Do you know what to do in an emergency if someone is injured? This course can benefit anyone by teaching you some effective first aid treatments that can be the difference between life and death in an emergency situation.

Sixty percent of people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease wander. Is your facility prepared to prevent residents from wandering? What do you do when a resident does wander? This course will teach participants how to prevent elopement from occurring and the necessary steps to take in the event it occurs.