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Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Courses for Home Health Aides (HHAs), Nursing Assistants (NAs), and Certified Nurse Aides (CNAs)
The 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-hour PDF Course Packages Are Perfect for Self-Study, Blended-Learning, and Instructor-Led Training.
KEEPING YOUR COOL: HOW TO MANAGE STRESS EFFECTIVELY AT WORK
(3 Contact Hour Package)
The way we handle our everyday situations at work (and at home) greatly affects our productivity, efficiency, and overall quality of life. Stress is often the result of ineffectively handling our affairs. Sometimes, stress can occur when demands exceed even sophisticated coping abilities. It is not that all stress is bad; in fact, it can help us grow. When used wisely, stress increases the likelihood of career advancement and personal well-being. By providing an overview of its causes, implications, types, and responses, the course enables HHAs, NAs, and CNAs to identify, understand, and manage stress, and thereby live a more fulfilling professional and personal life.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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CONFLICT IN THE WORKPLACE
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Directed and managed conflict allows organizations as well as individuals to grow and improve. On the other hand, companies that and people who suppress or repress conflict promote lack of professional growth and increase the likelihood of workplace violence. This course provides information on understanding and managing workplace conflict, including high-conflict or violent situations.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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THE STINK ON SMOKING
(4 Contact Hour Package)
The goal of this course is to provide HHAs, NAs, and CNAs with a comprehensive overview of nicotine in its most widely used form, i.e., cigarettes. Emphasis is on the history, prevalence, and health risks of smoking, as well as smoking cessation strategies, benefits, and obstacles. By identifying the human costs, understanding the addiction, recognizing barriers to smoking cessation, providing evidence-based tools for recovery, and supporting clients, aides and assistants can help create the best hope for a healthier, smoke-free future for all of us.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 4-hour course package for just $129.99!
Regular Price: $239.99 | You save: $110.00 (45%)
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FOODBORNE ILLNESS: MORE THAN A TUMMY ACHE
(3 Contact Hour Package)
There are over 250 known foodborne illnesses, the majority of which are due to biological contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Not only does the course cover infectious agents, but also details the role of chemical contaminates, allergens, and celiac disease in foodborne illness. Additionally, the course includes an overview of how advanced age, cognitive impairment, compromised immunity, and other conditions increase the risk of foodborne illness. Aides and assistants will learn up-to-date principles of good hygiene, sanitation, safe kitchen practices, and proper handling and storage of food, all of which will minimize the risk of causing or spreading foodborne illness and reduce the chance of injury or infection.
Level of Difficulty = 3Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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INFECTION CONTROL: KEEPING HOME HEALTH CARE SAFE FOR ALL
(4 Contact Hour Package)
We have made the sometimes dull but always important topic of infection control interesting. Loaded with beautiful and relevant photographs as well as easy-to-understand charts and graphs, this infection control course provides an overview of the infection process and common disease-causing agents seen in populations of home health care as well as long-term care settings that will enable staff to understand basic infection control methods. Aides and assistants will also be cognizant of the possibility of occupational infection, thereby reducing risk to themselves and their clients.
Level of Difficulty = 3Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 4-hour course package for just $129.99!
Regular Price: $239.99 | You save: $110.00 (45%)
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NEW TWISTS ON AN OLD TOPIC: NUTRITION AND THE OLDER ADULT
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Nutrition has a significant impact on the health of the elderly. Older adults – persons 65 or older – are at increased risk for developing nutritional deficiencies for a number of reasons: difficulties in eating or swallowing, low income, depression, reduced appetite, impaired taste and smell, and many others. Moreover, the vast majority of older adults suffer from chronic illnesses that could benefit from dietary intervention. For all these reasons and more, aides and assistants should develop a basic understanding of the special needs, barriers, and strategies related to optimal nutrition in the elderly. By learning these particular subjects, HHAs, NAs, and CNAs may improve the older adult’s health.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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WHEN THE PUMP FAILS: AN OVERVIEW OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a serious, life-limiting disease, which is gradual and chronic in nature; however, prescribed medications, special diets, activity limitations, and other treatments help control the disease. Learning careful ongoing assessments, early intervention, therapeutic compliance, and complications prevention can help slow the progression of CHF – all of which aides and assistants play a significant role.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING DEPRESSED CLIENTS
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Sadness is a normal human reaction to life’s setbacks and losses that is temporary and fades with time, without impairing one’s ability to function socially, occupationally, or otherwise. Clinical depression, on the other hand, is a longer-term mental illness that impairs a person’s ability to carry out day-to-day activities in all areas of life. Sadness is an emotion; whereas, clinical depression is an illness.
This course covers the causes, types, treatments, and misconceptions related to clinical depression. Additionally, the course provides information specific to clinical depression in older adults. At the conclusion of the course, the learner will have a deeper understanding of this mental illness and be better equipped with effective ways to communicate with clinically depressed clients.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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COMMON CHALLENGES AND CHANGES IN OLD AGE
(3 Contact Hour Package)
This course explains several normal and abnormal alterations that occur with advanced age. Moreover, it provides practical advice for reducing or eliminating the major difficulties associated with these age-related changes, and therefore furnishes aides and assistants with the information necessary to optimize the older client’s well-being.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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ELDER MISTREATMENT
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Although elder mistreatment is a social problem that has existed since the beginning of humankind, it did not appear in medical journals until just a few decades ago. Since then, clinicians and researchers have tried to determine the causes and prevalence of this sad reality, but there remains too few reliable statistics related to the patterns, causes, and effects of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation in private homes, home health care, nursing facilities, and residential care institutions. However, there are well-known types of mistreatment: theft, rough handling, improper feeding/inadequate nutrition, lack of attention to skin problems, unnecessarily restraining clients, isolation from other people, and failure to respect the wishes of older adults. This course assists HHAs, NAs, and CNAs in understanding the problem of elder mistreatment in home care and institutional settings. While it is impossible to resolve the entire scope of the problem in one course, this course content at least enables aides and assistants to understand the types, contributing/risk factors, indicators, laws, preventative measures, and interventions related to elder mistreatment.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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KEEPING THEM ON THEIR FEET
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Like dental care, preventative foot care needs to occur daily. Its benefits are many, among them are that it can increase comfort, limit the possibility of additional medical problems, reduce the chances of hospitalization because of infection, and lessen the requirements for other facility care. Yet, most people do not consider caring for their feet an essential part of health maintenance. People often ignore foot care until discomfort occurs. Aides and assistants have an opportunity to play a role in foot care, and thus keep their older clients on their feet. After all, it is easier to prevent problems with the feet than it is to correct them. The course content includes information on age-related changes, structural problems (e.g., bunions, corns, and calluses), and common infections of the foot. Additionally, aides and assistants will learn evidence-based daily foot care techniques and tips.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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JOB BURNOUT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Persons performing direct client care are a high-risk population for job burnout. By actively identifying sources for burnout and introducing individual changes, home health aides, nursing assistants, and nurse aides can avoid burnout. In addition, learning the healthcare industry-specific reasons for job burnout as well as the indicators, signs, and preventative measures of and the healing steps and recovery techniques for burnout help aides and assistants experience fulfillment and longevity in their career.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEPATITIS C
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Previously known as non-A, non-B hepatitis, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common chronic bloodborne infection in the United States. Although the incidence of infection has gone down, it is likely that the occurrence of liver disease will increase during the next 10 to 20 years, becoming a major burden on the healthcare system as these people who are presently unaware they have the disease progress to end-stage liver disease and develop liver cancer.
Some groups of individuals are at risk for developing HCV because of such behaviors as sharing personal items, poor personal hygiene, and aggression. Healthcare workers at risk for infection by bloodborne pathogens need to understand the factors that place their clients and colleagues at risk. For example, clients of a nursing home may not be as aware of appropriate cleanliness as the general population, thus increasing the risk of spreading infection. Understanding the signs, symptoms, risks, treatment, and complications is key to appropriate care for HCV-infected clients. Likewise, learning about modes of transmission for HCV will reduce risk of infection to workers and clients.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE SUN AND PROTECTION FROM THE SUN
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PART II: SUN-RELATED DISEASES AND DISORDERS
(4 Contact Hour Package)
The goal of this course is to provide HHAs, NAs, and CNAs with a comprehensive overview of the hazards of natural sunlight. Emphasis is on protection from the sun, effects of sun exposure, and sun-related immune system, skin, and eye disorders and diseases.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 4-hour course package for just $129.99!
Regular Price: $239.99 | You save: $110.00 (45%)
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DYING FOR HELP
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Most suicidal people are undecided about committing suicide but see no way out of their current and unbearable circumstances. Many suicidal individuals provide verbal and/or behavioral clues of their feelings and intentions – giving healthcare providers with the means to help prevent their clients from committing suicide.
By providing an overview of suicide in the United States, including frequency, risk factors, warning signs, prevention and intervention, the course will help HHAs, NAs, and CNAs understand the general care of suicidal persons. Additionally, the course includes information on various types of guidelines for suicide precautions and practical strategies for instilling or restoring a sense of hope, dignity, and self-esteem in suicidal clients.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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A NO SUGAR-COATED OVERVIEW OF DIABETES
(3 Contact Hour Package)
As clinicians and researchers have developed a better understanding of diabetes mellitus, it is clear that insulin therapy and oral hypoglycemics alone are no longer the magic bullets for managing the disease. Instead, the effective management and optimal outcomes of this disease process occur through an interactive balance among diet, weight control, exercise, medication, and prevention and early detection of complications. By providing an overview of the disease process and its proper management, aides and assistants can influence the quality and duration of the lives of their diabetic clients.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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COMMUNICATING AND CONNECTING WITH CLIENTS
(3 Contact Hour Package)
The relevance of effective communication in the home care and nursing home settings is quite obvious. First, it is essential for establishing a therapeutic relationship, since it involves sharing feelings and thoughts. Second, it is a way to influence client behavior towards a state of wellness. Finally, effective communication is a means for establishing trust, because without trust a therapeutic caregiver-client relationship is impossible.
This course provides an overview of the communication process, therapeutic and non-therapeutic communication techniques, and special communication problems (e.g., sensory barriers and speech disturbances) to assist aides and assistants in promoting positive changes in their clients.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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TUBERCULOSIS: IT’S BAAACK!
(3 Contact Hour Package)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthcare workers are one of many high-risk groups for tubercular exposure. Due to its resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s and then development of its drug resistance years later, it has become extremely important for healthcare professionals to learn about the care of clients with tuberculosis. This course provides aides and assistants with the necessary information to help them understand tuberculosis and to enable them to protect themselves and others from contracting this disease.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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AN OVERVIEW OF LOSS, GRIEF, AND HEALING
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Our reaction to loss is an overpowering and often unpredictable experience. Everyone reacts to this uncontrollable event with their own unique coping mechanisms and patterns of grief. Despite the fact that there is no way to avoid loss and grief at some point in one’s life, most people are unprepared to respond appropriately. This course provides an overview of the types and general features of loss, stages and patterns of grief, and techniques of therapeutic grief work. By learning the course content, the aide or assistant will be able to help clients and family make the necessary psychological adaptations for resolution and stability.
Level of Difficulty = 1Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION ABOUT CHRONIC CONFUSION
(3 Contact Hour Package)
The course covers causes, risk factors, and symptoms of dementia. In addition, the course content includes information on communication techniques and practical strategies for improving the caregiver-client interaction with and the overall well-being of this growing client population.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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OSTEOARTHRITIS: MORE THAN STIFF JOINTS
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Osteoarthritis is one of the oldest and most prevalent conditions among humankind, and as the population continues to get older, it will be an even bigger public healthcare problem. Although the exact cause of osteoarthritis is unclear and no current cure is available, many people can manage the disease with lifestyle alterations, e.g., weight loss, exercise, and avoiding painful activities. Some people will need to add medication, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or even surgery to the treatment plan. There is ongoing research to find treatments that will prevent the development of osteoarthritis; but until then, healthcare providers need to understand the causes, negative changes, risk factors, and treatments related to osteoarthritis. Aides and assistants who recognize the special challenges and assist with prescribed treatments related to osteoarthritis can improve the comfort level, activity tolerance, and overall quality of life of this increasing population.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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THE FACTS ABOUT HEPATITIS
(3 Contact Hour Package)
The course contains information on chronic and non-chronic forms of hepatitis, including related symptoms, transmission modes, preventative strategies, and high-risk behaviors and groups. The more up-to-date information healthcare workers have on hepatitis, the better able they are to protect themselves, reduce the number of people infected, and assist those with the disease towards wellness.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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PRESSURE ULCERS
(3 Contact Hour Package)
Many home care and nursing home clients suffer from acute or chronic disorders that increase their risk for the development of pressure ulcers. A serious problem, pressure ulcers can cause pain and, in some instances, death. Fortunately, in most cases, they are preventable and, when pressure ulcers do appear, they need not worsen. This course serves as an introduction to the methods of identification and reduction of the risks associated with pressure ulcers. In addition, the course addresses the specific pressure ulcer measures and treatments.
Level of Difficulty = 2Train your entire staff (regardless of number) at your location with this 3-hour course package for just $99.99!
Regular Price: $181.99 | You save: $82.00 (45%)
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Plus, the following courses are available…
FREE BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS (BBP) STAFF TRAINING KIT
This 1- to 2-hour course is FREE with your first order for 12 hours of continuing education at one time. Learn more about the OSHA-compliant BBP Staff Training Kit.
Level of Difficulty = 1BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) / CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) FOR THE PROFESSIONAL RESCUER AND/OR FIRST AID (FA) INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION WITHOUT ATTENDING A CLASS
You may be eligible to become a BLS/CPR instructor, FA instructor, or both without attending a class. Save time and money with the increased convenience and efficiency of doing in-house blended-learning Joint Commission- and OSHA-compliant classes. Train each staff member in BLS/CPR and/or FA at any of your locations for just $5.99 per person per class, which is well below the national cost average. Learn more about the instructor program elements and certification process.
Level of Difficulty = 1WHAT CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY
ABOUT EDUCATIONAL PROVIDERS OF AMERICA SELF-STUDY, BLENDED-LEARNING AND INSTRUCTOR-LED COURSE PACKAGES FOR HHAs, NAs, AND CNAs
I like that I can keep the courses well after staff is done receiving the training. This way we can use the courses again for new staff and our workers can refer to the material again at a later date and at their own pace. Your design of the self-study packages makes it SO EASY for us to meet our training requirement. Before Educational Providers of America, I spent countless hours developing materials each quarter, and most of the time less than half the staff showed up for the inservices. Urgh! Now I have more time to work on overseeing client care and marketing my business. Thank you for your superior educational products and wonderful customer service.
Mark Cortis, President
Silver Tea Club, Inc.
Royal Oak, Michigan
The course content is interesting and relevant. Even my direct care workers comment on how interesting they find the courses! All the workers really enjoy being able to learn when they are ready and not having to drive to the facility for training. Your courses have saved us so much time and money…
Ileen Byers, Home Care Owner and BLS Instructor
Country Lane Home Care
North Branch, Michigan
I purchased four in-service topics and found each one informative and useful for my staff. Thank you!
Sharon M., Home Health Care Owner
Madison, Ohio
We could not be more pleased with the quality of your educational products. We really appreciate the value and convenience of your materials.
Audie Pickott, President
Lansing, Michigan
The staff loved the course. We will be ordering more soon. Thank you.
Mary S., Registered Nurse
Greenfield, Wisconsin
Thank you for your professionalism. I will not forget this and will not hesitate to recommend your business to others for courses concerning adult care and Alzheimer’s disease.
Brent V., Executive Director
Lincoln, Nebraska
I was quite pleased and surprised with the quality of the materials.
Maureen Sisk, MS, MFT
New York, New York
The material was interesting and valuable. Staff has been attending classes for 30 years and this was more informative. Keep providing your services.
Michael Pannagio, Administrator
Rochester, New York
* Please contact us online for multi-location discounts. ** Your first order for 12 hours of the course packages at the same time by the same company at the same physical location receive the FREE Bloodborne Pathogens Staff Training Kit. The FREE Bloodborne Pathogens Staff Training Kit ships within a few business days of your online order to the address stated during the ordering process.
