It is our intent to provide you with the most useful information available to prepare you for a career as a caregiver. With this in mind, the objectives of the course are:
- To ensure that students understand the basic responsibilities of being a caregiver.
- To provide students with the basic tools and information they need to be successful as a caregiver.
- To provide guidance and insight into the caregiver industry and the demands of being a caregiver.
- To make the caregiver course as enjoyable thought provoking as possible.
- To ensure that students understand the core principles and values of a caregiver.
What Topics are Covered?
- Residents Rights
- Communicating Effectively with Residents
- Managing Personal Stress
- Preventing Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
- Controlling the Spread of Disease and Infection
- Record Keeping and Documentation
- Service Plans
- Nutrition, Hydration and Food Services
- Assisting in the Self-Administration of Medications
- Social, Recreational and Rehabilitative Activities
- Fire, Safety and Emergency Procedures
- The Aging Process
- Assisting Residents with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
- Vital Signs
- Medication Types
- Oral Hygiene, Grooming & Bathing
- Skin Integrity
- Resident with Dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease
- Communicating with Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care
- Providing Services and Life Skills
- Managing Difficult Behavior-Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care
- Developing & Providing Social, Recreational & Rehabilitative Activities for Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care
- Risk Management, Fall Prevention and Ambulation
After taking this course, you may get a certificate certified by the Filipino Institute, an internationally-accredited organization, for a fee of AED50. The same certificate may also be attested by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
To know more about this program, email onlinelearning@filipino-institute.com.
Course Features
- Lectures 82
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 18 hour
- Skill level beginner
- Students 2593
- Assessments Yes
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Chapter 1: Residents Rights
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Chapter 2: Communicating Effectively with Residents
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Chapter 3: Managing Personal Stress
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Chapter 4: Preventing Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
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Chapter 5: Controlling the Spread of Disease and Infection
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Chapter 6: Record Keeping and Documentation
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Chapter 7: Service Plans
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Chapter 8: Nutrition, Hydration and Food Services
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Chapter 9: Assisting in the Self-Administration of Medications
- What Do We Mean When We Say Medications?
- Medication Administration
- Who May Administer?
- Levels of Medication Administration
- Medication and Treatment Orders
- How Do Medication Orders Generally Arrive At Your Facility?
- How Do Caregivers Find Out About Medication Treatment Orders?
- When Medication Orders Change: Caregiver Responsibility
- Verbal Phone Orders from The Resident’s Doctor
- Recording the Changes
- Reporting Medication Errors
- Managing Errors: Caregiver Responsibility
- Sample Medication/Treatment Error Report
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Chapter 10: Social, Recreational and Rehabilitative Activities
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Chapter 11: Fire, Safety and Emergency Procedures
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Chapter 12: The Aging Process
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Chapter 13: Assisting Residents with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
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Chapter 14:Vital Signs
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Chapter 15: Medication Types
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Chapter 16: Oral Hygiene, Grooming & Bathing
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Chapter 17: Skin Integrity
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Chapter 18: Resident with Dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease
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Chapter 19: Communicating with Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care
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Chapter 20: Providing Services and Life Skills
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Chapter 21: Managing Difficult Behavior-Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care47
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Chapter 22: Developing & Providing Social, Recreational & Rehabilitative Activities for Residents Unable to Direct Self-Care
- Developing & Providing Social, Recreational & Rehabilitative Activities for Residents Unable to Direct Self Care
- Encouraging Socialization Among Residents
- Encourage Participation In Activities
- Encourage Participation In The Community
- Things To Consider When Planning Activities For Residents
- Find Ways To Support The Resident’s Interests In Various Activities
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Chapter 23: Risk Management, Fall Prevention and Ambulation
- Seven (7) Things That You Need To Be Aware Of Concerning Risk Management And Fall Prevention
- Assisting Residents With Ambulation
- Considerations When Assisting A Resident To Ambulate
- Some Of The Equipment Used For Ambulation
- Getting the Resident Ready To Transfer
- Before transferring into the wheelchair, the resident must be sitting
- Pivot Turn
- Transferring from a wheelchair to a toilet
- Important things to remember…
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Closing Thoughts from Filipino Institute
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ageverola
Caregiving
This theory is really splendid. It’s really a big help specially for us beginners. Thank you so much @filipinoInstitue -
Funmi
Caregiver
It was very thorough from start to finish. It was really a good refresher for me. -
Jam
Caregiver
I already finish the learning on how to take good care of a person especially eldest one and can be youngest one too. It gives me more perseverance and determination to pursuit it . Thank you for letting me one of your student in this institution. With the free courses offered it let me focus on the details of the information that is provided. more power and more blessings to come. -
Azeez
Caregiving
Very helpful and well explanatory. I really appreciate this. -
joycemary
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