Personal Care of Patients
Tracking # 20-1330617
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Program Objectives:
- Define Person-Centered Care & Scope: Describe person-centered personal care and the CNA/HHA role and scope of practice, including when to report or escalate.
- Differentiate ADLs vs. IADLs: Prioritize tasks based on safety, comfort, and individual preferences.
- Apply Standard Precautions & Hand Hygiene: Perform hand hygiene at the correct moments for common care activities.
- Identify Environmental Hazards & Prevent Falls: Address lighting, cords, footwear, and clutter; implement basic fall-prevention strategies before mobility tasks.
- Demonstrate Safe Transfers: Set up and sequence sit↔stand and bed↔chair transfers using gait belts and basic equipment, within training and policy.
- Assist with Bed Mobility & Pressure Relief: Use log-rolling and HOB adjustments; position with pillows and heel offloading for pressure relief.
- Provide Personal Hygiene & Grooming: Perform bathing, perineal care, oral care, hair/skin care, shaving, and nail care while maintaining dignity, privacy, and infection control.
- Support Toileting & Skin Protection: Follow toileting schedules; safely use briefs, urinals, bedpans, and commodes; provide catheter peri-care within aide scope and protect skin from moisture injury.
- Adapt Care & Communication: Modify pacing, cues, and use approved adaptive tools for patients with hearing, vision, speech, or physical impairments.
- Set Up Safe Mealtimes & Feeding Assistance: Use positioning, pacing, and ordered textures/thickeners to reduce aspiration risk.
- Recognize Pressure Injury Risks & Signs: Identify early signs and risk factors; describe staging features for prompt reporting (not diagnosis).
- Document & Report Red Flags: Chart objectively and immediately report acute pain, dyspnea, dizziness, non-blanching redness, choking, and other red-flag changes to licensed staff.
Course Overview:
Personal Care of Patients is a course designed to build practical, day to day skills for delivering safe, person-centered care in homes and facility settings. The course focuses on what aides do most supporting Activities of Daily Living, protecting dignity and privacy, preventing infection and injury, and recognizing when to stop and escalate changes to licensed staff. Learners will practice clear communication, culturally sensitive care, and accurate, objective documentation while applying evidence-informed techniques for transfers, positioning, hygiene, continence support, feeding with aspiration precautions, and pressure injury prevention. Throughout, the emphasis is on doing the right task, the right way, within aide scope and agency policy.
$8.00
2 Hours