Continuing Education Training Online: Florida CNAs Year 1
Nursing CEUs designed specifically to help you meet your Florida nursing license renewal requirements. You will cover a wide variety of pertinent topics from clinical care for the heart failure patient and diabetes care to elder care and opioid diversion. These courses, allow you to keep learning, keep advancing and educating yourself.

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**Please note that courses will become available 1 to 2 business days after purchase. You will have access to the course for 30 days after purchase.
Online | 12 Hours
Required for: Nursing Assistant
Cost: $120.00 NOW $90
Lessons Included
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Objective: Identify good communication techniques for working with older adults. Discuss additional communication techniques for older adults with physical disabilities and memory problems.
Description: We discuss strategies for communicating with older adults who have impairments such as hearing, vision, or memory loss. We also review how to apply good communication skills to manage difficult client behaviors and events.
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Objective: Recognize the laws on privacy and confidentiality of client information (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA). Apply your knowledge of the client’s rights when caring for an older adult. Identify the different signs of elder abuse. Apply strategies for preventing elder abuse. Report elder abuse based on the legal requirements for your state. Describe ethical behavior as it relates to being a caregiver. Identify signs of domestic abuse and child abuse.
Description: In this class, we discuss clients' privacy, security (confidentiality), and related rights. We discuss elder abuse and neglect, including how to prevent it and how to report it if it does occur. Forms of abuse include verbal, physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse. The class also discusses ethical behavior as it relates to being a caregiver.
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Objective: Explain the importance of observation of client condition. Identify types of observation. Describe types of reports caregivers make and the elements of effective reports. Explain the importance of good documentation. Describe the characteristics of good documentation.
Description: This class demonstrates the importance of observing, documenting and reporting on a client’s condition. Caregivers will learn techniques for objective and subjective observation, elements and types of reports, and characteristics of effective documentation.
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Objective: Determine necessary observations of normal and abnormal conditions. Identify signs and symptoms of concern for different bodily systems. Describe appropriate observations of a client’s family and home environment.
Description: In this class, caregivers will learn how to look for changes in a client’s condition, and the importance of reporting abnormal observations. They will learn to identify symptoms of concern and how to respond to changes in different bodily systems, in the client’s vital signs, mental status, skin, nutrition, elimination, and in the client’s home environment.
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Objective: Describe the types of reports caregivers make. Identify elements of effective documentation. Discuss the impact of inaccurate documentation. Identify medical terminology and abbreviations used in documentation
Descripition: In this class, caregivers will learn when to report on the client’s condition, how to report, and the types of reports to make. The class will also cover the characteristics of effective documentation, common medical terminology used in the documentation, and the dangers of inaccurate documentation.
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Objective: Identify methods of HIV transmission and infection. Recognize the symptoms of AIDS. Describe the medications and treatments available for older adults living with HIV/AIDS. Provide the home care required for an older adult living with HIV/AIDS.
Description: This class gives caregivers an overview of HIV infections and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In this class, we discuss how to care for an older adult with HIV/AIDS, including considerations for the client’s safety, health management, and nutrition.
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Objective: Understand the requirements for HIV test result notifications. Review the protections for health care personnel and confidentiality of test subjects (clients). Identify the resources available for HIV testing and counseling. Describe when to document HIV test results or refusals in a person’s medical file.
Description: This state supplement covers Florida’s legal requirements for HIV testing; counseling and resources; client confidentiality; notifications to partners, care team or third parties; and considerations for pregnant women.
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Objective: Identify different ways that infections can be transmitted, including bloodborne pathogens. Define infection control and explain its importance. Demonstrate appropriate practices for controlling the infection. Apply strategies for cleaning and disinfecting a client's home to prevent the spread of infection.
Description: In this class, caregivers learn how to maintain a clean and healthy environment for the older adults in their lives. Topics discussed include standard precautions (also known as universal precautions), including hand hygiene and the use of personal protective equipment, and how to dispose of sharps and other contaminated materials and equipment. Also covered are methods of transmission, bloodborne pathogens and airborne diseases, transmission-based precautions, and techniques for cleaning and disinfection for infection control.
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Objective: Identify different ways that infections can be transmitted, including bloodborne pathogens. Define infection control and explain its importance. Demonstrate appropriate practices for controlling the infection. Apply strategies for cleaning and disinfecting a client's home to prevent the spread of infection.
Description: In this class, caregivers learn how to maintain a clean and healthy environment for the older adults in their lives. Topics discussed include standard precautions (also known as universal precautions), including hand hygiene and the use of personal protective equipment, and how to dispose of sharps and other contaminated materials and equipment. Also covered are methods of transmission, bloodborne pathogens and airborne diseases, transmission-based precautions, and techniques for cleaning and disinfection for infection control.
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Objective: Define what a professional caregiver is and what professionalism looks like. Describe the correct way to interact with clients and their families about your care responsibilities. Describe the correct way to interact with your teammates to follow your client's care plan. Identify ways to take care of yourself and keep yourself safe when working in and around the client’s home.
Description: In this class, we show new and experienced caregivers how to prepare to meet clients. We discuss professionalism, how to interact with clients and their families, how to interact with teammates, and understanding advanced directives. Caregivers will also learn the importance of workplace safety, the importance of self-care, and how to protect themselves from dangers on the job.
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Objective: Define sexual harassment. Recognize sexual and other forms of harassment. Determine strategies for addressing sexual harassment.
Description: This class will teach the caregiver how to recognize, report, and help protect themselves from sexual and other forms of harassment.
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Objective: Explain the role of aging in the twenty-first century. Recognize examples of ageism. Determine how the five senses change with age. Identify the age-related physical changes that impact the care of older adults.
Description: This class will explore the role of aging in the twenty-first century, and explain how ageism impacts older adults. Caregivers will learn how age and illness affect the sensory and motor functions of the older adult, and how to adapt care for an older client’s needs.
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Objective: Define activities of daily living and the importance of personal care. Describe the strategies for assisting with personal hygiene. Describe the best practices to be followed while assisting older adults for transferring, bathing, dressing, toileting, and eating.
Description: In this class on activities of daily living (ADLs), we touch upon how to assist older adults with activities such as transferring, bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, and eating.
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Objective: Demonstrate an understanding of food and nutrition when assisting with meal planning for the older adult. Determine tactics for assisting older adults with self-administration of medication. Identify strategies for assisting older adults to maintain social connections. Recognize approaches for transporting older adults.
Description: In this class on instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), we touch upon how to assist older adults with activities such as meal preparation, medication self-administration, social connections, and transportation.
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Note: Continuing education courses are not included within this institution’s ABHES grant of accreditation.