Ω Home Health Aide Core Training

Our Home Health Aide Core Training collection offers a comprehensive and accessible online learning experience, tailored to equip individuals with the essential expertise required to become competent and compassionate home health aides. This collection covers a diverse array of fundamental topics, ranging from personal care assistance and vital signs monitoring ... Read more

Our Home Health Aide Core Training collection offers a comprehensive and accessible online learning experience, tailored to equip individuals with the essential expertise required to become competent and compassionate home health aides. This collection covers a diverse array of fundamental topics, ranging from personal care assistance and vital signs monitoring to infection control, support for Activities of Daily Living, and effective communication with diverse clients and their families.

Through engaging multimedia content, interactive modules, and practical simulations, participants will acquire a thorough understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in providing exemplary home healthcare services. Whether you are just embarking on a career in the healthcare industry or seeking to enhance your existing skill set, these courses provide a flexible and convenient platform for self-paced learning. By completing the Home Health Aide Core training, learners will be fully prepared to make a positive impact in the lives of clients by delivering personalized care and support in the comfort of their homes, fostering independence, and improving overall well-being. Hide

  • 11 courses
  • 12 hours
Ω Home Health Aide Core Training

Course Description

In this course you will be introduced to what a career as a Home Health Aide can look like, and important things you should understand about being a Home Health Aide.

Course Topics

  • Define the role of a home health aide
  • Describe the qualifications required to become a home health aide
  • Describe why you should become a home health aide
  • Describe the Healthcare System
  • Differentiate Medicare and Medicaid
  • Explain the functions of the home healthcare team
  • Describe the day to day life of a home health aide

Course Description

Patients' Rights is a fundamental aspect of healthcare that focuses on ensuring patients receive fair and respectful treatment while under medical care. As a caregiver, understanding and respecting patients' rights is crucial to providing high-quality care and maintaining strong relationships with patients and their families. This course aims to educate caregivers on the ethical and legal aspects of patients' rights, including informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, autonomy, the right to be free from abuse and neglect, and the right to refuse treatment. By learning about patients' rights, caregivers will be better equipped to advocate for their patients and ensure that they receive the best possible care.

Course Topics

  • Explain the importance of informed consent
  • Discuss privacy and confidentiality in healthcare
  • Understand autonomy and the right to refuse treatment
  • Learn how to prevent abuse and neglect
  • Identify best practices for maintaining positive relationships with patients and their families

Course Description

In this course, you will have an introduction to HIPAA, HITECH, and PHI. Additionally, you will learn ways to protect your client's information.

Course Topics

  • Describe the difference between privacy and confidentiality
  • Define HIPPA, HITECH, and PHI
  • Describe how to keep your client’s health information secure
  • Describe online etiquette for HHAs
  • Describe what behaviors to avoid to protect your client’s health information

Course Description

This course will cover the activities of daily living (ADLs) which are the essential, everyday tasks that we need to perform in order to live independently such as eating, bathing, and ambulating. As a caregiver, you can greatly assist those who, for cognitive, physical, and other reasons, are unable to independently complete their ADLs. In this course, you will learn how to assess clients' need for assistance with ADLs as well as learn practical ways to assist them. Assisting with ADLs is more than doing something for your client; it is helping them to do as much as they can for themselves.

Course Topics

  • Describe ADLs
  • Assess and monitor independence with ADLs
  • How to assist your client with bathing and grooming
  • How to assist your client in the shower or bath
  • How to perform a bed bath
  • How to provide hair care for different hair types and textures
  • How to assist your client to wash their hair in the sink, shower, or in bed
  • Assist your client with dressing while promoting independence
  • Obstacles to proper toileting and how to help clients
  • Importance of ambulation and assisting with transfers
  • Describe how to assist your client with eating and drinking

Course Description

In this course, you will have an introduction to medical terminology. Additionally, you will receive an overview on various documents you will have to complete.

Course Topics

  • Describe basic medical terminology
  • Describe common abbreviations used in health care
  • Describe how to give and receive a verbal report
  • Explain the types of factual observations
  • Describe the importance and purposes of written documentation
  • Demonstrate how to create effective written documentation

Course Description

In this course, we will discuss common injuries in the home and how to prevent them. Additionally, we will discuss possible emergencies you may encounter when working with clients in their homes.

Course Topics

  • Identify common injuries in the home and describe how to prevent them
  • Describe what to do in an emergency
  • Describe how to administer first aid and when to call for help
  • Describe what to do if you need to be evacuated
  • Outline what should be included in a disaster kit
  • Describe how you would stay safe in a disaster

Course Description

This course is designed for caregivers who want to enhance their knowledge and skills in reporting essential body functions to the registered nurse supervisor. As an intermediate-level course, it delves into the critical aspects of monitoring and reporting vital signs, changes in patients' conditions, and other essential information to ensure the well-being of those under the caregivers' care. Understanding the basic elements of body functions and being able to report them accurately and timely is crucial for caregivers to provide effective care and support.

Course Topics

  • Identifying and monitoring vital signs
  • Recognizing changes in patients' conditions that require reporting
  • Documenting and reporting patient information accurately
  • Communicating effectively with the registered nurse supervisor
  • Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the caregiver and registered nurse supervisor
  • Ensuring patient confidentiality and privacy

Course Description

In this course, you will learn about the chain of infection. Additionally, we will discuss PPE.

Course Topics

  • Describe the chain of infection
  • Describe standard precautions and when you should use them
  • Describe transmission-based precautions
  • Identify the different types of PPE
  • Describe how to don and doff your PPE
  • Identify the bloodborne pathogens and describe their modes of transmission
  • Describe antibiotic-resistant organisms
  • Describe the precautions to be taken for the prevention of COVID-19

Course Description

In this course, you will learn about the necessary housekeeping tasks you may have to conduct. Additionally, we will discuss special cleaning you may have to do if your client has an infection.

Course Topics

  • Explain the importance of housekeeping
  • Describe the guidelines for proper housekeeping, including how and how often a task should be completed
  • Describe the techniques for cleaning to maintain health and safety
  • Describe how to create a cleaning schedule
  • Describe the tools and techniques used for doing your client’s laundry
  • Describe special cleaning and laundry that must be done if your client has an infection

Course Description

Safe Patient Handling is a crucial aspect of caregiving, designed to ensure the safety and well-being of both patients and caregivers during the process of transferring, repositioning, and lifting. This course is targeted at caregivers who are responsible for assisting patients in various care settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and private residences. The course will provide a comprehensive understanding of proper techniques, equipment usage, and guidelines to minimize the risk of injury to both the patient and the caregiver. By mastering these skills, caregivers can provide a higher quality of care while maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for their patients.

Course Topics

  • Ergonomics and body mechanics in patient handling
  • Identifying risks and hazards in patient handling
  • Proper techniques for lifting, transferring, and repositioning patients
  • Utilizing patient handling equipment and devices

Course Description

In this course, you will be introduced to cultural diversity in healthcare, as well as the importance of being culturally competent. Providing care in a culturally competent way that involves the client and makes them feel understood and valued is an important goal.

Course Topics

  • Define culture, nationality, race, and ethnicity
  • Describe diversity by race and sexual orientation
  • Describe unconscious biases
  • Describe cultural competence
  • Identify the cultural needs patients may have
  • Describe racial and ethnic disparities and how it may affect the health of patients
  • Describe how to provide culturally competent care

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