Define palliative care. Define hospice care. Explain the DCW's role when a client is receiving palliative care or hospice care.

Palliative care and hospice care have specific goals that require you to approach caring for your client with a different mindset. In this class, you will learn the differences and similarities between these two types of care and how both can be beneficial for your client towards the end of life. 

Describe the benefits of providing person-centered care for clients. Explain how to provide person-centered care on a daily basis to respect the client’s individuality.

This class demonstrates how to practice person-centered care when assisting clients. Caregivers will learn the importance of getting to know their clients, fostering their independence, maintaining a least restrictive environment, and treating them with respect and dignity.

Define clients' rights and the importance of confidentiality, privacy, and security of protected health information. Recognize principles of self-determination. Describe how clients can make informed decisions about advance directives.

Every client deserves to have their rights and care preferences honored. In this class, you will learn practices to ensure your clients' rights are honored, how to enable and protect their self-determination, and how common legal documents can be used if clients can no longer communicate their wishes. 

Describe the five vital signs and why vital signs are important. Explain the importance of monitoring a client’s body temperature. Explain the importance of monitoring a client’s pulse. Explain the importance of monitoring a client’s respiration. Explain the importance of monitoring a client’s blood pressure. Explain the importance of monitoring a client’s pain.

In this class, caregivers will learn the role of vital signs in assessing a client’s health, and the importance of accurately measuring vital signs. Caregivers will learn when to measure temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure, and the normal ranges for each. The course will also cover how to monitor a client’s pain. 

Demonstrate how to measure a client’s body temperature. Demonstrate how to measure a client’s pulse. Demonstrate how to measure a client’s respiration. Demonstrate how to measure a client’s blood pressure. Determine how to assess a client’s pain.

This class teaches caregivers the techniques for measuring vital signs: temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and pain. Caregivers will learn when to measure temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure, the normal ranges for each, and what to do when measurements are outside normal ranges.

Explain the causes of caregiver stress. Identify healthy and unhealthy coping skills for caregivers. Determine how to create a plan to manage caregiver stress.

This class will teach caregivers about stress and the importance of taking care of themselves. Caregivers will learn coping skills for their physical and emotional health, and how to create a plan to use those skills.

Describe how professional caregivers may react to the death of a client. Describe strategies for managing grief after the death of a client. 

Grief is a normal reaction to loss that you may experience after the death of a client. In this class, you will learn how direct care workers (DCWs) may experience grief and strategies for managing grief after the death of a client. 

Recognize the signs of severe dementia and end of life. Identify strategies for communicating with an older adult living with severe dementia. Determine causes of pain or discomfort in an older adult living with dementia at the end of life. Apply strategies to promote comfort in the older adult living with dementia at the end of life.

This class will teach caregivers how to recognize and provide care for people living with dementia at the end of life, including strategies to manage pain and promote comfort.

Describe how to assist a client with the use of oxygen.

In this video, caregivers will learn how to assist clients with respiratory conditions to use oxygen.

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