IMPORTANT!! Please check the Board Approval Information below to ensure the course is approved by your professional board and will provide the CE credits you need.
Course Description
Quality of life can be enhanced by quality care. This program has been designed to help those healthcare workers who directly care for persons with dementia, with the skills, techniques and strategies that will enable them to provide quality of care for persons with dementia on a daily basis. This course has been designed to meet the requirements of the Florida Statutes 430.5025 and Rules 58A-5.0194 and 59A-36.011, specifically those who work in adult day care, adult family-care homes and assisted living with special units. Our DOEA numbers are: ALF Training 10771, and Curriculum ALF10834. ADC Training 10778, and Curriculum SAADC10820. Renewal of this course will occur before it expires on 7/17/2028.
Purpose and Objectives
This program is offered to increase the effectiveness of care by utilizing an understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and other confusional states. At the completion of the program the participant will be able to:
- Define dementia
- Provide a basic overview of how the brain works.
- Discuss how ADRD affects the brain
- Explain how ADRD differs from normal aging.
- Identify other conditions that my result in symptoms that mimic ADRD.
- Discuss what is currently known about possible causes of ADRD.
- Recognize the stages/continuum of AD and how it progresses.
- Identify the common symptoms associated with each stage.
- Identify common challenges at each stage that are to be experienced by both family and professional caregivers.
- Describe how ADRD affects communication skills.
- Utilize strategies and guidelines for verbal and nonverbal communication.
- Define validation therapy and provide examples.
- Explain the importance of being present in the person’s reality.
- Describe differences between validation therapy and reality therapies.
- Identify situations in which validation therapy may be useful.
- Review types and causes of stress (physical, emotional and financial) experienced by caregivers, families, and professionals.
- Identify ways stress can be assessed or identified.
- Identify strategies to reduce stress.
- Review current FDA-approved medications and their side effects.
- Identify medications that are most commonly prescribed.
- Identify the process of reporting behavioral changes that an employee suspects may be medication related.
- Identify signs and symptoms of malnutrition and dehydration.
- Describe strategies for addressing malnutrition and dehydration within the care setting.
About the Author
Linda S. Greenfield, RN, PhD
Linda is the educational administrator, author and instructor for Consultants for the Future. She is a graduate from Iowa State University and Columbia Pacific University and was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities as a doctorial student. She has taught hundreds of seminars and authored home study courses for over thirty five years in healthcare continuing education.
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Her clinical experiences include acute and long term care, including experience as a flight nurse in the US Air Force and as an educator in a college based nursing program. Linda has a passion for life-long learning and is always on the breaking edge of the latest information in health and healing, integrating both conventional and alternative approaches. She has a knack for breaking down complex topics into easy to understand concepts with practical applications for everyday needs. Linda has been honored as a keynote speaker at several conferences and conventions, including the Spring 2005 conference of the Iowa Department of Health where she spoke about energy healing.
Board Approval Information
Consultants for the Future has been approved by the Florida Boards of Nursing, Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Pathology and audiology (clinical), Nursing Home Administrators, and the Council of Certified Nursing Assistants, Provider No. 50-435. The course is approved by the Department of Elder Affairs (DOEA). Our DOEA numbers are: ALF Training 10771, and Curriculum ALF10834. ADC Training 10778, and Curriculum SAADC10820. Renewal of this course will occur before it expires on 7/17/2028. It is approved by the District of Columbia Board of Nursing, Provider No. 50-435; The Alabama board of Occupational Therapy, Provider No. 50-435; the Georgia Board of Nursing, Provider No. 50-435; accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing, and it meets the requirements of the Iowa Behavioral Science Examiners for Mental Health Counselors and Marital & Family Therapists, the Iowa Social Work Examiners and Iowa Licensed Nursing Home Administrators. The course meets the requirements of the Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada and Kentucky Boards of Nursing, and other states by reciprocity.
For those licensed in states monitored by CE Broker, we report your completion to CE Broker every morning.
Established in 1979, Consultants for the Future has become a leader in quality continuing education for healthcare professionals for over 25 years.
“My goal as a healthcare educator is to provide the highest quality, up-to-date material with complete research bibliographies, and applicable content derived from decades of experience and study. Our exams are designed to optimize retention of the material. We employ rigorous standards for academic integrity and effectiveness.”
Linda S. Greenfield, RN, PhD, Administrator, Author and Founder of Consultants for the Future
For those licensed in states monitored by CE Broker, we report your completion to CE Broker every morning.