Designed For: Family Members or Care Partners
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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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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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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 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 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…
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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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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…
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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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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;…
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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.