Self-Study Courses

Succeeding in the Business End of Providing Community Based Care Services
-Why Marketing Has to be Properly Planned and Executed
-Tips on Grant Writing
-Managing Personnel for the Best Results
-The Power of Real Budgeting
-Diversifying Populations: How to Do So Profitable
-The Great Marriage Between Group Living and Adult Day Health Care

Total Cost:  $57.50

(5 CEU)

Delivery Method

Email Fax Mail

NABWEB Pending

Recognizing and Preventing Dehydration & Malnutrition
-What are Some Physical Signs of Dehydration?
-What are Some Physical Signs of Malnutrition?
-How Can staff Work to Avoid These Occurrences?
-Why are the Elderly Especially Vulnerable?
-How a Team Approach can Help

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Delivery Method

Email Fax Mail

NABWEB Pending

Knowing Resident Rights and How To Teach Them to Employees
Original Approved Title: “Resident Rights”
-Why Rights Matter
-How Resident Rights are Tied to a -Resident’s Civil Liberties

Total Cost:  $23.00

(2 CEU)

Delivery Method

Email Fax Mail

NABWEB Pending

Effective Fire Safety
-Designing an Effective Fire Safety Plan
-The Moral Side of Advance Protection

Total Cost:  $23.00

(2 CEU)

Delivery Method

Email Fax Mail

NABWEB Pending

Proper Infection Control
-What Causes Infection?
-Are Certain Environments More Vulnerable?
-Practical Approaches to Self and Facility Protection

Total Cost: $23.00 

(2 CEU)

Delivery Method

Email Fax Mail

NABWEB Pending

How to Design and Conduct Effective Staff Training Sessions
-The Role of Temperature in Effective Training
-Why Visual Aids Matter and How to Make Use of Them?
-How the Dignity of Each Attendee Affects their Learning Potential

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Maintaining and Restoring Your Resident’s Dignity
-What is Dignity?
-Dose Maintaining Dignity Contribute to a Resident’s Self Worth?
-How Can a Resident’s Dignity Be Given Special Attention?

Total Cost:  $23.00

(2 CEU)

Creating Better Health Through Proper Nutrition
-What Resources Can be Used to Educate About Nutrition
-How Does Good Nutrition Contribute to Better Health for a Person with a Sedentary Lifestyle?
-The Role of Fruit in Group Home Diets

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Foreseeing and Managing Potentially Violent Behavior
-Controlling Without Restraining – What is That?
-How You Can Do a Better Job Getting to Know a Resident?
-Making Knowledge of Individuals Your Friend

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Understanding Dementia and Its Affects on Sufferers
-What Really is Dementia?
-How Must Staff Respond to Memory Deficit
-Communicating with the Alzheimer’s Sufferer
-Showing Respect and Patience and Why this Matters

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Designing and Managing Recreational Therapy Programs for Those with Cognitive Limitations Original Approved Title: “Recreational Therapy Programs for Residents”
-What is Recreational Therapy?
-How Can Such Therapy Contribute to Agility?
-What are the Mental Advantages of Such a Routine?
-How is a Recreational Therapist credentialed?

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Documentation Integrity
-What Activities in Care Must Always be Well Documented?
-What Words and/or Phrases Must Never be Used in Care Oriented Documentation?
-Why Integrity Matters in How Something is Summarized in Writing

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Effective Financial and General Management
-How to Make Budgeting Your Friend
-Recruiting, Training, Monitoring and Disciplining Personnel Correctly
-Understanding how Marketing and Sales Work and Why They are Different

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Recognizing and Working With Clinical Depression
-What is Depression?
-What Treatments Matter Most
-How To Help a Depressed Person Reach their Maximum Potential
-The Role of Family and Caregivers when Working with the Depressed

Total Cost: $23.00

(2 CEU)

Wound Care Management
-What Causes Pressure Wounds?
-How Severe Can Wounds Become
-What Treatments Have Proven Effective
-The Role of the Wound Care Certified Nurse
-Simple Routines Care staff Can Use to Minimize Effect of Wounds and Likelihood of Occurrence

Total Cost:  $92.00

(8 CEU)

Physical Rehabilitation Programs All Homes Can Use
-What Physical Therapists Can Teach You that Benefits Residents
-How Direct Care Workers Can Complement Rehabilitation

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Appreciating the Differences in Others
-How Culture and Diversity Awareness Contributes to Better Relationships
-How Our View of Others Spurs More Self-Worth for Ourselves
-Why Relationship Management is Key to Business Success

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Reducing Personal Job Stress
-How Our Attitude Contributes to Our Stress level
-How Our Approach to Work Mist be Creating Undue Stress
-How to Stop Worrying and Get Busy Living
-How Properly Managed Expectations Can Reduce Stress

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

How Best to Deal With Difficult People: Residents, Family Members and Employees
-How Our Approach to Complaints Could Dampen Hostility
-Why Taking Responsibility Can Diffuse Situations
-Why a Proactive Approach Could Prevent Unwarranted Hostility

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Sanitary Kitchen Management that Prevents Disease
-Is Your Kitchen Really Clean?
-Simple Techniques to Assure Food Safety
-The Damaging Results of an Unsanitary Environment

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Understanding the Dilemma of Pain
-What Causes Extreme Physical Pain?
-Why Regular Communication with Resident Physician is Crucial
-What are the Psychological Affects of Extreme Physical Pain?
-How You Can Help Residents to Cope

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

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Principles of Blood borne Pathogens

-How to Protect Ourselves   

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Avoiding Appearance of Sexual Impropriety When Rendering Care
-Simple Techniques to Keep Innocence in Play
-Why Caring about a Resident’s Dignity Helps in avoiding the Appearance of Impropriety

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Making the Adjustment When a Resident’s Needs Change
-Why Knowledge of a Resident’s Condition Helps You Render Better Care
-How You Must Adjust Just as a Resident does When Changes in Condition Occurs
-Preparing in Advance for Anticipated Changes in a Resident’s Condition

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Environmental Modifications that Promote Safety and Greater Function
-How to Make a Home More Physically Accommodating

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

How to Write an Emergency Handbook for Staff
-What Key Elements Must go Into a Handbook for Emergencies
-How to Identify Potential Emergencies

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Rendering Personal Care Safely and With Dignity
-Tools that Promote safety in Bathing and Showering
-Techniques that Keep a Resident’s Dignity in Tact During Personal Care

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Recognizing and Responding to Abuse and Neglect
-Defining all Categories of Abuse: Financial, Sexual, Verbal, Psychological
-How to Get Help When Someone has Been Abused
-Proper Responses to Reports of Abuse and Neglect

Total Cost:  $34.50

(3 CEU)

Assisting the Resident With Congestive Heart Failure
-What is CHF?
-What Environmental Factors can Assist in Managing it?
-The Role of the Direct Care Worker in Creating Comfort
-Important Signs to Watch for

Total Cost:  $57.50

(5 CEU)

Prevention and Containment of Communicable Disease
-What does Communicable Mean?
-What Communicable Ailments are Society’s Greatest Concern?
-The Best Methods for Protecting Ourselves

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Medication Administration Guidelines
-What Medication procedures must be followed in adult foster care
-What so-called “common sense” measures must always be avoided
-Appropriate Medication Storage

Total Cost:  $92.00

(8 CEU)

Person Centered Program Planning
-Why Individuality Matters in Group Living Programs
-How to Acknowledge and Show Respect for Individuality
-How Person Centeredness Separates Quality Programs from Mediocre Ones

Total Cost:  $46.00

(4 CEU)

Guardianships and Conservatorships: Types, Limitations and Authority
-Types of Guardianships used in Michigan
-Why Some Guardianships are Limited
-Why Guardianships are Needed
-The Trusting Role of a Conservator
-Answerability to Probate Courts
-Role of a Public Administrator

Total Cost:   $57.50

(5 CEU)

Understanding and Working with Schizophrenia
-What is the ailment?
-How is it treated
-Making Life Easier for Sufferers of it in Group Living

Total Cost:  $92.00

(8 CEU)

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The Real Truth Behind Small Scale Assisted Living

- An Informational Article from the Perspective of an Experienced Provider

$25.00

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The Real Truth Behind Private Duty Home Care

- An Informational Article from the Perspective of an Experienced Provider

$25.00

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Direct Care Worker Training Kit

- Includes Special Section on Reporting Requirements including Adult Protective Services Guidelines for Michigan and Definitions and Explanations of Abuse and Neglect - Excellent for home Administrators to Use to Train Direct Care Staff

$249.95 + $4.50 Shipping and Handling

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"Thriving; Not Just Surviving in Community Based Care"

-2-Day Continuing Education Convention held April 2006.  16-Hours of Information, Laughter and Knowledge Building - 3 DVD Set

Priced for $99.95.  Limited Quantity Available.

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"Your Success Is In Your Operation" People and Processes"

-Continuing Education Event held in August 2008.  Available on a CD with fully outlined program and photography.

Priced at $79.95.