Course Topic: Long-Term Care Basics

  • Caregivers as Partners 1: The Foundations of Care Partnership

    After completing this course, you will be able to describe the variety of experiences and challenges caregivers face in long-term care and recognize caregivers as valued members of the interprofessional team. You will apply promising practices to build a strong foundation for respectful, meaningful partnerships from day one.

  • Caregivers as Partners 2: Communication for Strong Partnerships

    After completing this course, you will be able to identify effective communication practices for partnering with caregivers and apply the CARE model to strengthen collaboration. You will also recognize how cultural factors influence communication and support person-centred care.

  • Caregivers as Partners 3: Empowering Caregivers

    After completing this course, you will be able to articulate your role in supporting and empowering caregivers when there are changes to a resident’s care needs, including palliative and end of life care. You will learn and apply strategies to provide navigation support, support caregivers with self-care and grief, and uphold privacy and consent.

  • Nursing PLEDGE Mentorship 1: Beginning the Mentoring Relationship

    After completing this course, you will be able to: identify the stages of the mentoring relationship; describe the roles that mentors take on while guiding mentees; describe the qualities that support learning; identify the responsibilities of the mentor and mentee; explain the importance of boundaries within the mentoring relationship; explain how to collaborate on creating…

  • Dysphagia and the Elements of Safe Eating

    After completing this course you will be able to identify the causes, signs, symptoms, and impacts of dysphagia and the appropriate actions to support residents, explain the elements of safe eating and drinking, and the importance of following them properly, promote safe and supportive eating and drinking techniques by using the appropriate adaptive devices and…

  • Team Essentials: Preventing Acute Deterioration

    You will discover evidence-based tools to support yourself, residents, families and your team to work together. By acting on your desire to offer kindness, caring, and willingness to help, the tools and strategies offered in this course will help improve care experiences for yourself and others.

  • For Team Members: Answering Family Phone Calls Using the Huddle Tool

    After completing this course, you will be able to use the Huddle Tool to effectively receive and respond to phone calls from a resident’s family member, sharing care information with compassion and respect.

  • For Families: Phoning Your Long-Term Care Team Using the Huddle Tool

    After completing this course, you will be able to use the Huddle Tool to communicate clearly and effectively by phone with the long-term care team about you or your family member’s wants and needs.

  • Team Essentials: Engaging Families in Distress

    In this course, you will learn about how to overcome initial reactions to family distress by regulating emotions through mindfulness and compassionate communication. This includes learning about family loss and grief, and learning to shift initial survival emotions from fight, flight and freeze to compassion. You will also learn the Family SBAR communication tool for…

  • PREP LTC eLearning Course for Preceptors and Students

    In this course, you will learn about the roles of preceptors and students in clinical placements, key long-term care (LTC) practices, effective learning strategies, reflective feedback, anti-oppressive practice, conflict management, and evaluation.