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- Our Facility Safety Committee
- Residents' Rights Today
- Managing Difficult Resident Behavior
- Safety Matters
- Balancing Act (Fall Prevention)
- Break the Chain (Preventing Infection)
- Safety During Activities of Daily Living
- Partners in Care
- The Role of the Ethics Committee
- Your Own Path (Advance Directives)
- Special Things (Safeguarding Resident Property)
- Smart Move (Safe Resident Transfers)
- May I Help You (Dining Assistants)
Our Facility Safety Committee (2-programs)
Entitled, Representing All of Us, this two-part training package takes aim at improving the performance of the safety committee and drawing frontline workers into your safety promotion efforts.
- Program I shares with staff what the safety committee is, what it does, and how staff can help promote a safe environment for both themselves and the residents.
- Program II, for the safety committee, administration, and middle managers, covers the key factors that can make the difference between a safety committee that excels and one that underperforms.
24 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Residents' Rights Today
Subtitled, Respectful Care in Changing Times. Explains what residents' rights are and why they are so important.
- Covers the specific rights residents and staff, alike, need to know about.
- Discusses the role cultural diversity plays in resident-staff relations.
- Appropriate for both staff and resident/family viewing.
20 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Managing Difficult Resident Behavior
- Skills for dealing with difficult, disruptive, dangerous behavior
- Explains the importance of recognizing behavior issues, understanding the underlying causes, and responding early to signs of agitation. Emphasizes staff's role in managing their own reactions and emotions.
20 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Safety Matters
Subtitled, Working Safely in Long Term Care and Residential Care Facilities. This program explains in easy-to-understand terms what every employee should know about on-the-job safety.
Covers:
- Accident prevention and back safety
- The role of teamwork and good communications in job safety
- The importance of maintaining clean, clear work spaces and traffic areas
- How staying healthy, alert, and focused helps prevent injuries.
14 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Balancing Act (Fall Prevention)
Subtitled, Your Fall Prevention Program. Explains:
- Why residents fall and staff's role in preventing falls
- Fall risk assessments and prevention interventions
- What to do when a fall occurs
- The importance, after a fall, of investigating and making adjustments
24 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Break the Chain (Preventing Infection)
Subtitled, Preventing the Spread of Infection, this is an especially popular training resource for both new employee orientation and on-going in-service training.
- Covers: HIV, HBV, HCV, TB, MRSA, and Scabies.
- Explains bloodborne pathogens facts, risks, and precautions.
- Presents essential skills for correct use of personal protective equipment, hand hygiene, needlestick precautions, and much more.
26 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Non-Member Price: $179
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Safety During Activities of Daily Living
Subtitled, Nine Ways to NOT Get Hurt. Covers:
- Resident and staff safety while giving and receiving help with ADLs
- What are the common risks to be aware of
- Demonstrations of right-way and wrong-way scenarios
- Nine recommended practices to keep everyone injury-free.
20 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
Partners in Care
Subtitled, Care Planning and Care Conferences. An ideal orientation and education tool for three audiences: staff, family members, residents. Coverage includes:
- The care planning process, including gathering and assessing information about needs, creating a plan of care, and revising the plan as circumstances change
- Care conferences, including when they take place, who attends, what's discussed, and how to prepare and be an active participant
- The role of the resident in planning and monitoring his or her own care
- The advantages of family involvement in care when practical.
21 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
The Role of the Ethics Committee (2-programs)
Part I is for residents, family members, staff, and community audiences. It explains:
- what an ethics committee is
- how it supports residents, families, and staff
- how to take advantage of the ethics committee when a need arises
- the role advance directives and good communications about one's wishes.
Part II covers five essential building blocks for an effective ethics committee and is excellent for committee education and renewal.
24 minutes. Available on VHS only.
Member Price: $159
Non-Member Price: $179
Your Own Path (Advance Directives)
This popular program on informed consent and advance health care planning is ideal for residents, patients, family members, staff, and community audiences. Explains:
- Informed consent and the patient's right to make decisions whenever possible
- The value of planning ahead by appointing a health care representative and completing a health care directive
- The important role played by open, honest discussion of your wishes with your doctor, health care representative, and close family members.
13 minutes.
Special Things (Safeguarding Resident Property)
This video explains why respect for resident belongings is so important. Covers:
- Situations that present the highest risk of lost personal items
- What staff ? as well as residents and their families ? can do to safeguard things
- How everyone benefits from taking a team approach on this issue.
10 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide. Available on VHS only.
Member Price: $159
Non-Member Price: $179
Smart Move (Safe Resident Transfers - 3 tape package)
Subtitled, Promoting Safe Resident Transfers, Respectful Care in Changing Times.
- Program 1: Resident Transfers: Making Sure Your Workers Do Them Right
- Why make safe transfers a top priority
- What's involved in setting up an effective program
- How to keep a safe transfers program on track
- Program 2: Resident Transfers: Your Role in Doing Them Right
- Why frontline workers should care about this safety concern
- What resident transfer skills do I need, as a front line worker
- How to make the most of mechanical lifts and other transfer aids
- Program 3: Resident Transfers: What Residents and Their Families Should Know
- Explains the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of safe transfers
- Discusses what role the resident can play in his or her own transfers
- Introduces family members to safety concerns and suggestions
14, 17, and 8 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.
May I Help You (Dining Assistants - 3 tape package)
Subtitled, Skills You'll Need as a Feeding Assistant.
- Program 1: Getting Started
- What a feeding assistant does
- Working with older adults
- Residents' rights
- Spotting and reporting changes
- Preventing the spread of infection.
- Program 2: Proper Feeding Techniques
- Preparing to serve the meal
- Serving the meal
- Residents who need cueing and other special held
- Making mealtimes a pleasant, social experience for residents.
- Program 3: Problem Behaviors and Emergencies
- What to do when a resident begins to choke, won't eat, falls, or becomes agitated or abusive
- What to do when there's a fire or other emergency in the facility.
20, 18, and 14 minutes, with 16-page Presenter's Guide.