Staff Development Directors and In-Service Coordinators
understand the challenges of developing, scheduling,
conducting and documenting all the necessary in-service
requirements that must be met by nursing home employees
to maintain regulatory compliance. In-Service Training
Solutions includes 30 training topics designed to make
this job more manageable.
Overview of In-Service Modules
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1. Abuse Prevention
and Reporting (60 min.) [Item: INSV-01]*
Provides an understanding of what abuse is
and residents’ rights that abuse violates.
Participant will be able to describe 6 forms of abuse
and explain
what to do if they think they have witnessed abuse. |
2. Activities of Daily
Living (ADL) (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-02]*
Provides an understanding of the importance
of accuracy in ADL documentation for reimbursement
purposes.
Also explores how caregiving can be planned to promote
optimal well-being and autonomy with activities of
daily living. |
3. Behavior Management
(30 min.) [Item:
INSV-03]*
Provides
an understanding of factors that contribute to cognitive
impairment in older adults, identify
and treat factors that are reversible, and suggest
appropriate interventions to promote behavior management
while maintaining dignity and quality of life. |
4. Bladder Continence
(30 min.) [Item:
INSV-04]*
Provides
an understanding of age-related changes that affect
bladder continence. Will discuss briefly
how the functioning of the genitourinary system affects
bladder continence and examine how important bladder
continence is to quality of life in older adults. |
5. Bloodborne Pathogens
(20 min.) [Item:
INSV-05]*
Provides
an understanding of the risks associated with bloodborne
pathogens and protective measures
to be taken. |
6. Body Mechanics: Good
Body Mechanics/Employee Safety (20 min.) [Item:
INSV-06]*
Provides an understanding of basic body movements
that will help to prevent work-related injuries,
and explains the relationship between healthy lifestyle
behaviors and employee safety. Download
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7. Bowel Continence
(30 min.) [Item:
INSV-07]*
Provides
an understanding of age-related changes that affect
bowel continence, as well as how the
functioning of the gastrointestinal system affects
bowel continence. The importance of bowel continence
to quality of life will also be discussed. |
8. Cognitive Impairment:
Caring for the Cognitively Impaired (30 min.) [Item:
INSV-08]*
Provides an understanding
of factors that contribute to cognitive impairment
in older adults, identify
and treat factors that are reversible, and suggest
appropriate interventions to promote behavior management
while maintaining dignity and quality of life. |
9. Dehydration and IV
Therapy (20 min.) [Item:
INSV-09]*
Provides
an understanding of factors that pose a risk of dehydration
to elders, and discusses ways
to prevent dehydration and types of IV lines used
in long term care to maintain or regain hydration. |
10. Depression (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-10]*
Provides an understanding
of what clinical depression is, how it may present
itself in older residents,
and how it can be treated. |
11. Fluid & Electrolyte
Balance (20 min.) [Item:
INSV-11]*
Provides an understanding of the importance
of fluid and electrolyte balance in older adults
as
well as the potential threats to elders of fluid
balance. |
12. Foot Care (25 min.) [Item:
INSV-12]*
Provides an understanding
of the potential for foot problems in older adults.
These problems, if
not addressed, can diminish the overall health and
quality of life for seniors. |
13. Hospice/Palliative
Care/Comfort Care (30 min.) [Item:
INSV-13]*
Provides
an understanding of interventions associated with
end of life care provision, including a review
of the “Bill of Rights for the Dying Person,” reviewing
the stages of dying, and providing guidance to caregivers
on ways to support the resident, family members and
themselves through the dying process. |
14. Hydration: Potential
for Fluid Imbalance (20 min.) [Item:
INSV-14]*
Provides an understanding of the potential
threats of hydration related to fluid imbalance in
older
people. |
15. Infection Control
(20 min.) [Item:
INSV-15]*
Provides
an understanding of infection control and prevention
guidelines. |
16. Meal Provision Goals
and Guidelines (30 min.) [Item:
INSV-16]*
Provides an understanding of the importance
of attentive monitoring of food and fluid intake
for
older adults to prevent malnutrition and dehydration.
Federal and State regulations that assist caregivers
in long term care to identify potential problems
with nutrition in elders and potential barriers to
adequate nutrition are reviewed. |
17. Mouth Care (25 min.) [Item:
INSV-17]*
Provides an understanding
of the potential for mouth problems in older adults.
These problems, if
not addressed, can diminish the overall health and
quality of life for seniors. |
18. MSDS/HAZCOM (15
min.) [Item:
INSV-18]*
Provides an understanding
of the potential hazards posed by working with chemicals
and disinfectants
and how one can safely protect oneself from possible
injury. |
19. Nutrition: Maintaining
Nutrition (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-19]*
Provides an understanding of the potential
for nutrition problems in elders. These problems,
if
not monitored carefully, can diminish the overall
health and quality of life for older adults. |
20. Observation, Reporting & Recording
(60 min.) [Item:
INSV-20]*
Provides an understanding of how the nursing process
helps to deliver consistent, quality care for elders.
The importance of the nursing assistant’s role
in helping develop, carry out and evaluate the plan
of care is also discussed. |
21. Pain Management
(60 min.) [Item:
INSV-21]*
Provides an understanding of dimensions of pain
in older adults. These issues often cause elders
to suffer with unrelieved pain, and that pain significantly
impacts their ability to function. Effective control
of pain can significantly improve the resident’s
quality of life. |
22. Pressure Ulcers
(60 min.) [Item:
INSV-22]*
Provides an
understanding of pressure ulcers, risk factors, prevention
and treatment. The development
of a pressure ulcer in the older resident is difficult
to heal and can indicate deficiencies in care provision. |
23. Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(20 min.) [Item:
INSV-23]*
Provides
an understanding of why elders in nursing homes are
at high risk for developing active TB and
how to detect and treat it. |
24. Resident’s
Rights/Confidentiality (30 min.) [Item:
INSV-24]*
Provides an understanding of the importance of
maintaining an ethical code of conduct that guides
one’s actions and protects and promotes the
rights of each resident. |
25. Restorative Care - The
Road Back (50 min.) [Item:
INSV-25]*
Provides an understanding of the potential
for impairment in functional abilities in elders.
These
problems, if not addressed, can diminish the overall
health and quality of life that supports independence,
dignity and self-esteem for elders. |
26. Restraints (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-26]*
Provides an understanding
of physical and chemical restraints, enablers, assessment,
regulations, and
documentation requirements. |
27. Safety/Accidents
& Fall Prevention (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-27]*
Provides an understanding of the potential
for accidents and injury in elders and how to prevent
them. Risk factors, if not properly addressed, can
lead to resident injury, a loss of autonomy and independence,
and, ultimately, quality of life. |
28. Survey: Understanding
and Preparing for the Survey Process (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-28]*
Provides an understanding
of why it is important to have an oversight agency
to monitor the quality
of care and quality of life issues of elders. A brief
description of the survey process and ways that a
nursing home can maintain substantial compliance
with Federal and State regulations for the well-being
of the elders in its care are discussed. |
29. Team Building: Teams
and Interdepartmental Teamwork (60 min.) [Item:
INSV-29]*
Provides an understanding of how
an effective team functions, how teamwork is more
productive than individual
efforts, and how interdepartmental cooperation benefits
the staff and residents. |
30. Weight Monitoring
(20 min.) [Item:
INSV-30]*
Provides an understanding
of why accurate weight monitoring is so important
in maintaining physical
stability and well-being in elders. |
Item Order
Code for Complete Series of 30 Topics: INSV-C
This product is a 2-volume
instructional binder with turnkey reproducible teaching
materials. The package includes resources to conduct
instructor-led training with participant handouts and
post-quizzes, as well as materials for employee self-study.
In-Service Training Solutions provides the core instructional
resources to deliver
consistent, quality employee
in-services
on
a broad range of topics important to long term care workers.