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The Caregiver Training Manual: A 40-Hour Caregiver Training Program
The Caregiver Training Manual: A 40-Hour Caregiver Training Program - is a comprehensive compilation of training modules designed to assist Caregivers in the delivery of quality care to seniors by understanding their needs and challenges and by recognizing and reacting to their various tribulations and personalities.
 
The training manual is comprised of 14 sections, which collectively address:
  1. Introduction to Home Care and the Senior Client
  2. Common Health Problems in Seniors
  3. Confusion and Dementias in Seniors
  4. Communicating with Seniors
  5. Working with Seniors Living with Disabilities
  6. Caring for Terminally Ill Seniors
  7. Working With Challenging Behaviors
  8. Providing Personal Care to Seniors
  9. Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Seniors
  10. Health and Safety
  11. Basics of Emergency Care
  12. Infection Control
  13. Appendix: Caregiver Skills Check and Demonstrations
  14. Quizzes and Final Examination
 
The manual is a vital  “tool kit” filled with the knowledge, skills, procedures, tips and techniques needed to provide effective home care service. As such, it is as important to Caregivers as hammers and saws are to carpenters. It provides trainings on how Caregivers can help seniors in stressful situations by ensuring they are acting and reacting in a manner, which is appropriate and beneficial to the senior and the circumstance.
 
Caregivers, who are new to the profession, will find this manual to be informative and interesting. Experienced Caregivers will also benefit because, first of all, it will serve as a refresher course; and, secondly, it should substantially expand their knowledge and give them a clearer understanding of what is happening, why it is happening, and how it might be handled.
 
The 40-hour core curriculum provides the basis for all the paraprofessional curricula: Home Care Aides, Personal Care Aides, and In-Home Care Aides. The Caregiver Training Manual curriculum contains standard written tests that may be used in combination with procedural Caregiver Skills Check and Demonstration to determine the Caregiver’s successful completion of each module.

The Caregiver Training Manual: A 40-Hour Caregiver Training Program

$999.00Price

  • Upon completion of purchase, you will receive a downloadable PDF version of the  Caregiver Training Manual.

  • Module 1: Introduction to Home Care and the Senior Client

    • Impacts of aging
    • Outward signs of aging
    • Aging effects on body systems
    • Sensory changes associated with aging
    • Cognitive changes associated with aging
    • Basic needs of seniors
    • Factors affecting senior’s mental health
    • Substance abuse
    • Changes in circumstances
    • Monetary issues
    • Depression
    • Summary

    Module 2: Common Health Problems in Seniors

    • Chronic diseases
    • Arthritis
    • Stroke
    • Parkinson’s disease
    • Diabetes
    • Cardiovascular disease
    • Signs and symptoms of a heart attack
    • Anemia
    • Respiratory conditions
    • Pneumonia
    • Paralysis
    • Cancer
    • Eye problems
    • Ear problems
    • Common health care mistakes made by seniors
    • Summary

    Module 3: Confusion and Dementias in Seniors

    • Cognitive powers
    • Nervous system changes due to aging
    • Confusion
    • Alzheimer’s disease
    • Stages of Alzheimer’s disease
    • Behavioral patterns found in Alzheimer’s disease
    • Caring for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

    Module 4: Communicating with Seniors

    • The value of communication
    • Communication methods
    • Communication channels for seniors
    • Communicating with member of the care team
    • Summary

    Module 5: Working with Seniors Living with Disabilities

    • Introduction
    • Disability categories
    • Acquired and developmental disabilities
    • Summary

    Module 6: Caring for Terminally Ill Seniors

    • Terminal illness
    • The positive side of terminal illness
    • The process of dying
    • The dying person’s rights
    • Things a person should consider when facing a terminal illness
    • Hospice care
    • Funeral and disposal of remains
    • Needs of people who have a terminal illness
    • Challenges that people with a terminal illness face
    • Dealing with the family of terminally ill people
    • Signs that death is near
    • Summary

    Module 7: Working With Challenging Behaviors

    • Challenging clients
    • Challenging behavioral patterns displayed by clients
    • Complaints
    • Anger
    • Conflict
    • Constructive and destructive aspects of conflict
    • Aggression
    • Violence
    • Negativity
    • Summary

    Module 8: Providing Personal Care to Seniors

    • The meaning of personal care
    • The falling client
    • Urinary system care
    • Bowel care
    • Caring for the incontinent client
    • Eating/feeding
    • Vital signs
    • Things a caregiver must never do
    • Equipment and supplies recommended for caregivers
    • Summary

    Module 9: Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Seniors

    • Nutrition
    • Dietary guidelines
    • Nutritional needs of seniors
    • Dehydration
    • Dysphagia
    • Summary

    Module 10: Health and Safety

    • Precautions to take for personal safety
    • Assessing the home environment for hazards
    • Falls and fractures
    • Injuries
    • How caregivers can protect themselves from injury
    • Wellness
    • How caregivers can promote wellness
    • Emergency preparedness
    • Earthquake
    • Hurricane
    • Tornado
    • Power outages
    • Electrocution
    • Summary

    Module 11: Basics of Emergency Care

    • Objectives of emergency care
    • General rules of emergency care
    • Summary

    Module 12: Infection Control

    • Infections
    • Using universal precautions to control infections, including:
      • Handwashing
      • PPE
    • Summary

    Appendix: Caregiver Skills Check and Demonstrations

    • Proper handwashing
    • Proper body mechanics
    • Tub or shower bath
    • Turning the client in bed
    • Bed bath
    • Shampoo in bed
    • Back rub
    • Nail care
    • Shaving the client
    • Mouth hygiene and care
    • Assisting with eating
    • Assisting with dressing
    • Assisting with the use of elastic support stockings
    • Helping the client to walk
    • Making an unoccupied bed
    • Use of a bedpan
    • Changing a brief
    • Assisting with the use of the condom catheter
    • Assisting with cleaning the skin and catheter tubing
    • Assisting with the emptying of the urinary drainage bag
    • Position the client in bed
    • Transfer to the sitting position in bed
    • Helping a client to stand
    • Transfer to wheelchair, chair, or commode
    • Positioning client in chair or wheelchair
    • Transfer from wheelchair to toilet
    • Transfer from wheelchair to shower and assisting with shower
    • Transfer from wheelchair to stool or chair in tub
    • Weighing a client
    • Measuring intake
    • Measuring urinary output
    • Assisting with changing a clean dressing
    • Assisting with the use of the hydraulic lift
    • Slide board transfer procedure
    • Checking the right person
    • Checking the right medication
    • Checking the right dose
    • Checking the right time
    • Checking the right route
    • Assisting with changing an ileostomy or colostomy pouch

    Quizzes and Final Examination

    • Module 1: Introduction to home care and the senior client
    • Module 2: Common health problems in seniors
    • Module 3: Working with Seniors Living with confusions and dementias
    • Module 4: Communication skills
    • Module 5: Working with clients living with disabilities
    • Module 6: Working with clients on hospice
    • Module 7: Working with challenging clients
    • Module 8: Personal Care Skills
    • Module 9: Food, nutrition, and meal preparation
    • Module 10: Safety and injury prevention
    • Module 11: Honoring Client Rights
    • Module 12: Infection Control
    • Final Examination – Caregiver Competency

    Answer Key to Quizzes and Final Exam

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