Empowering Residents through ADLs

Course Code: REL-SRC-0-ERA

Hours: 1

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2024

Learning Objectives:
Describe ways that you can empower residents to participate in self-care.
Recognize the impact ADLs have on resident’s well-being.
Identify ways to incorporate person-centered care into ADLs including independence, respect, dignity, and choice.

Outline:

Section 1: Introduction

1. About This Course


2. Learning Objectives

Section 2: Empowerment and Self-Care

1. What Do You See?


2. Encouraging Independence


3. Empowerment in Healthcare


4. A Six Step Plan


5. The Four Components


6. Bringing it Together


7. Review


8. Summary

Section 3: Person-Centered Care and ADLs

1. What Happens to the Body as We Age?


2. What Are Activities of Daily Living?


3. Ensuring Residents Receive Maximum Benefit from ADLs


4. Increasing Independence


5. Ways to Increase Independence


6. Respect, Privacy, and Dignity


7. Normalization


8. Trust and Compassion


9. Communication


10. The Right to Choose


11. Safety


12. Meet Irene


13. Review


14. Summary

Section 4: Conclusion

1. Summary


2. Course Contributor


3. References


4. Congratulations!

Instructor: Jennifer Moore, RN-BC, CDP, WCC

Jennifer Moore, RN-BC, CDP, WCC started working in the senior care industry in 2000. She is a certified Gerontological Nurse, a Certified Dementia Practitioner, and Wound Care Certified. She has held positions including MDS Coordinator, Director of Nursing, Medicare Nurse Coordinator, Nurse Consultant, Area Manager, and Director of Quality Assurance. Her overall responsibility within each of these positions was to ensure residents received the highest quality of care. This included active participation in quality improvement initiatives, review of clinical records to identify areas of weakness, corroboration with the medical director to institute policies and procedures for resident care, and staff education/training. Additionally, she was responsible for maintaining an effective compliance program under a Quality of Care Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General for a period of five years. She currently serves as the Director of Curriculum Design & Research for Relias. Within this position, her responsibility is to oversee the development of online training modules across the healthcare continuum. She has served as the subject matter expert for courses on re-hospitalization, clinical skill reviews, leadership, management, and various OSHA and regulatory compliance topics. In addition, she has presented at various state conferences on mandatory compliance, quality assessment and assurance (QA&A), and quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI). 

Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Direct Care Workers; in the following settings: Post-Acute Care.

Relias Learning will be transparent in disclosing if any commercial support, sponsorship or co-providership is present prior to the learner completing the course.

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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.