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5 Things to Know about Palliative Care
After completing this course, you will be able to to identify the five principles of pallative care: focus on quality of life, holistic, the earlier the better, team approach, and person-centred care. You will have the foundational elements to communicate and understand the difference between palliative care and end-of-life care.
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Adult Learning Principles
After completing this course, you will be able to recognize adult learning principles in training scenarios, describe how to apply them effectively, and explain how each principle supports learning and engagement.
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All-In Palliative Care: The Team Approach to LTC
An 8-hour live virtual training program to help your team build confidence in communicating about and strengthening resident-centred palliative care that also includes 1 hour of elearning. Accredited for 9 credits by CNA. Register through the website: All-In Palliative Care: The Team Approach to LTC – Ontario Centres for Learning, Research, and Innovation in Long-Term Care
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All-In: Practicing Cultural Humility in Palliative Care
After completing this course you will be able to define cultural humility and differentiate it from cultural competence and sensitivity, recognize its role in person- and family-centered care, understand how interprofessional teams foster cultural safety, and empathize with diverse residents to tailor care to their unique needs.
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Break the Chain of Transmission: IPAC Core Concepts and Practices
After completing this course, you will be able to explain how micro-organisms cause infection, what the different types of transmission are, and what the links in the chain of transmission are; explain how to break the links of contact, droplet and airborne transmission; follow the instructions on additional precautions signs; conduct a personal risk assessment; practice hand hygiene; put on and take off personal protective equipment.
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Caregivers as Partners in Long-Term Care
After completing this course, you will be able to describe the variety of experiences and challenges faced by caregivers in LTC, recognize caregivers as valued members of the interprofessional team, identify effective communication practices when partnering with caregivers, describe how cultural factors affect communication, and articulate your role in supporting and empowering caregivers.
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Caring for Persons with Dementia
In this course, you will learn key facts about dementia, recognize its symptoms and stages, explore effective support techniques, and understand the importance of a person-centered approach to dementia care.
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Clinical Nursing Leadership 1: Communicating Effectively
After completing this course, you will be able to differentiate between effective and ineffective communication approaches, recognize the possible consequences of both and be able to apply effective communication techniques in a variety of contexts.
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Clinical Nursing Leadership 2: Handling Conflict with Care
After completing this course, you will be able to differentiate between effective and ineffective strategies for managing conflict, recognize the possible consequences of both and be able to apply effective conflict management strategies in a variety of contexts.
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Clinical Nursing Leadership 3: Being a Leader
After completing this course, you will be able to recognize your day-to-day leadership potential, describe several characteristics of transformational leaders, recognize leadership myths and misconceptions and be able to describe the differences and similarities between managers and leaders.
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Clinical Nursing Leadership Accredited Series
Nurses working in long-term care will improve clinical leadership skills to navigate conflict, communicate with confidence, and learn how to thrive as clinical leaders. When you complete all three modules of the Clinical Nursing Leadership series, you will receive a certificate including 1 credit from the Canadian Nurses Association.
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Diet Report, Food Texture, and Fluid Consistency
After completing this course, you will be able to use a diet report and diet order; check for a resident’s diet type, food texture and fluid consistency; identify food textures and fluid consistencies.
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Eating Assistance
After completing this course, you will be able to safely support residents during mealtime, while promoting nutrition, safety, and social connection.
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Facilitating Client and Family-Centred Learning. Best Practices
In this course, you will learn about the fundamental health literacy best practices for engaging clients and families.
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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.
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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.
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Implementing Person-centred Language: An Overview for Long-Term Care Team Leaders and Managers
Person-centred language (PCL) refers to using language that puts people first rather than the disease, symptoms or conditions that they may have. In long-term care (LTC) this means focusing on the strengths and abilities residents have, rather than their disabilities. This interactive eLearning course will show you how person-centered language can have a positive impact on communication and care, and help to reduce stigma and discrimination.
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Implementing Person-centred Language: An Overview for Long-Term Care Team Members
Person-centred language (PCL) refers to using language that puts people first rather than the disease, symptoms or conditions that they may have. In long-term care (LTC) this means focusing on the strengths and abilities residents have, rather than their disabilities. This interactive eLearning course will show you how person-centered language can have a positive impact on communication and care, and help to reduce stigma and discrimination.
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IPAC While Administering Medication
After completing this course, you will be able to apply your knowledge about prevention of infection transmission to administering medication in a long-term care home.
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IPAC While Supporting Residents at Mealtime
After completing this course, you will be able to apply your knowledge about prevention of infection transmission while supporting residents at mealtimes.
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IPAC While Supporting Residents Living with Dementia
After completing this course, you will be able to adapt the application of IPAC practices for residents living with dementia; take a person-centred approach to applying IPAC practices while supporting people living with dementia; assess resident’s strengths and determine how these strengths can be used in following IPAC practices; communicate and document adaptations for following IPAC practices that have been made for residents.
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IPAC While Supporting Residents with Bathing, Dressing, and Grooming
After completing this course, you will be able to apply your knowledge about prevention of infection transmission to supporting residents with bathing, dressing, and grooming in a long-term care home.
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IPAC While Supporting Residents with Peri-care, Continence Care, and Using the Toilet
After completing this course, you will be able to apply your knowledge about prevention of infection transmission to supporting residents with personal care in a long-term care home.
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IPAC While Travelling To and From an LTC Home
After completing this course, you will be able to apply your knowledge about prevention of infection transmission to situations you may encounter while on your way to and from a long-term care home.
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Lifts and Transfers
In this course, you will learn to protect yourself and residents from injury during lifts and transfers in long-term care, and transfer this safety knowledge to other health care settings.
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Managing Pain and Distress in Long-Term Care (Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain when residents should receive a pain/distress assessment and reassessment; explain how to conduct a pain/distress assessment of residents; explain the different aspects of pain/distress and the concept of “Total Pain”; suggest approaches to managing pain/distress; argue against common misconceptions about pain/distress; recognize the importance of communicating with other team members about assessing a resident for pain/distress and a resident’s pain/distress…
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Managing Pain and Distress in Long-Term Care (Non-Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain the different types of pain/distress and the concept of “Total Pain”; argue against common myths and misconceptions about pain/distress and the assessment of pain/distress; recognize indicators that a resident may be experiencing pain or distress; explain why non-clinical team members should report to clinical team members any changes they observe in residents.
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Mandatory Reporting and Whistle-blowing in Long-Term Care
After completing this course, you will be able to explain the importance of reporting and raising concerns in situations of abuse, neglect or wrong doing; explain what whistle-blowing is, when whistle-blowing is required, and what protection the Fixing Long-Term Care Act provides for whistle-blowers.
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Minimizing Restraint Use in Long-Term Care
After completing this course, you will be able to explain what restraints are and their types; identify when restraint use is appropriate; safely apply and monitor restraints when necessary; explain what the alternatives are to restraint use.
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Ontario CLRI Specialized Educator Certificate in LTC Level One – Best Practice
You will be able to recognize leading education and relational practices, describe how to use the SECL Six Step Educator Competency Framework to enhance training in your LTC home, explore creative ways of teaching and learning, identify Ontario CLRI resources to support your educational approach, and apply relational, collaborative, and experiential methods to support team learning.
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Palliative 1: Communicating about Hospice Palliative Care
After completing this course, you will be able to define palliative care, recognize palliative care myths and recognize interprofessional needs related to illness and bereavement. You will experience improved communication with reduced confusion about palliative care when talking with LTC residents, family care partners and LTC team members.
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Palliative 2: Coping with Grief
After completing this course, you will be able to recognize the presence of grief, know the tasks that people complete as they grieve, and recognize the needs of those in mourning. You will have improved ability to start and continue end-of-life conversations and increased comfort in talking about death.
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Palliative 3: Building Relationships
After completing this course, you will be able to effectively paraphrase, incorporate empathy into your responses, and recognize if a situation is outside the boundaries and limits of your professional role. You will have improved communication skills to build therapeutic relationships with residents and family care partners and enhanced understanding of the role that all LTC team members play in end-of-life communication.
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Polypharmacy and Deprescribing
In this course, you will learn to understand how polypharmacy develops, recognize common drug-induced symptoms and prescribing cascades, and apply a practical approach to deprescribing using a fictional case. This course helps improve medication safety and supports better health outcomes for older adults.
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PREP LTC 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.
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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.
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Preventing Falls in Long-Term Care (Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain your responsibility in proactively preventing falls; identify which fall prevention interventions are connected to your role; feel confident in suggesting/taking ownership of/implementing these interventions; identify common environmental risk factors for falls; recognize changes in a resident’s behaviour that increase their risk of falls; identify health factors that increase a resident’s risk of falls; as appropriate to your role, know how…
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Preventing Falls in Long-Term Care (Non-Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain your responsibility in proactively preventing falls; identify which fall prevention interventions are connected to your role; feel confident in suggesting/taking ownership of/implementing these interventions; identify common environmental risk factors for falls; recognize changes in a resident’s behaviour that increase their risk of falls; identify health factors that increase a resident’s risk of falls; explain the importance of being informed and…
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Preventing, Recognizing and Reporting Abuse and Neglect in Long-Term Care
After completing this course, you will be able to recognize the various types of elder abuse and signs of resident abuse or neglect; recognize the power imbalance between care providers and residents; identify roles and responsibilities of incident reporting of elder abuse and neglect and relevant legislation; explain the connection between self-regulation and abuse prevention and identify ways to provide support to others and themselves.
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Resident Interaction for Environmental Services Team Members
After completing this course, you will be able to respond to residents, family members, and other team members in different situations you may encounter during your shift.
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Respecting and Promoting Resident Rights in Long-Term Care
After completing this course, you will be able to explain the importance of the Residents’ Bill of Rights; respect and promote residents’ rights while working or volunteering in a long-term care home; explain the responsibilities of long-term care team members in respecting and promoting residents’ rights.
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Skin and Wound Care in Long-Term Care (Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain which risk factors impact skin integrity and wound healing in older adults; explain which skin and wound care issues are of particular concern in long-term care; recognize indicators that a resident is experiencing skin and wound care issues; explain when to assess residents for skin care and wound care issues; suggest care or practices that reduce risk factors and prevent…
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Skin and Wound Care in Long-Term Care (Non-Clinical Team Members)
After completing this course, you will be able to explain which risk factors impact skin integrity and wound healing in older adults; explain which skin and wound care issues are of particular concern in long-term care; recognize some indicators that a resident is experiencing skin and wound care issues; explain what non-clinical team members should report to clinical team members.
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Storycare Project
After completing this course, you will be able to use the three elements of storycare: storytelling, storylistening and storykeeping. You will also learn how caring for a client in long-term care includes caring for their story. Storycare draws on the power of personal life-experiences, traditional folktales and imaginary narratives to make stories an essential part of daily living.
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Team Essentials for 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 respectful, efficient and effective sharing of information with team members about situations involving family distress.
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The Food Services Team and the Resident Dining Experience
After completing this course, you will be able to explain how LTC team members in various roles support residents with eating food that is safe and healthy; contribute to creating a dining experience that helps a resident to enjoy their meals; explain which parts of the Ontario Fixing Long-Term Care Act (FLTCA) affect food services.
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WeCARE: How to Support Someone Who is Struggling With Their Mental Health
After completing this course, you will be able to show you care; ask R U OK?; and guide a distressed teammate to seek professional support.