Resident Behavior and Needs in Assisted Living Facilities
Tracking # 20-1391500
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Program Objectives:
- Explain Behavior as Communication: Describe how resident behavior may communicate a physical, emotional, social, cognitive, or environmental need.
- Identify Factors Contributing to Behavior Changes: Recognize common physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and environmental factors that may affect resident behavior.
- Distinguish Usual Behavior from Significant Change: Compare a resident’s baseline behavior with new, unusual, or meaningful behavioral changes.
- Recognize Common Behavioral Expressions: Identify behavioral expressions commonly encountered in assisted living facilities.
- Apply Respectful Communication Techniques: Use person-centered communication and response techniques when supporting residents.
- Select Strategies to Reduce Distress: Choose appropriate approaches to reduce distress, support comfort, and prevent escalation.
- Identify Changes Requiring Immediate Reporting: Recognize behavioral changes that require prompt reporting or emergency action.
- Document Behavior Objectively: Record resident behavior clearly, accurately, and without judgment.
Course Overview:
This course prepares assisted living facility direct-care staff to recognize, understand, and appropriately respond to resident behaviors and underlying needs. Learners will examine how physical discomfort, cognitive changes, emotional distress, environmental conditions, communication barriers, personal history, and unmet needs can influence behavior. The course emphasizes respectful, person-centered responses that protect resident dignity, independence, privacy, safety, and decision-making. These principles are consistent with Florida's expectation that assisted living facilities operate as residential, homelike environments that help residents remain as independent as possible.
$6.00
1 Hours
Resident Behavior and Needs in Assisted Living Facilities is offered in the packages below
Online NH Package
$23
25 Hrs