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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 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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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.
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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.