Personalized Face to Face Education
PERSONALIZED FACE-TO-FACE WORKSHOPS
Choose up to four topics to be presented in a full-day workshop at your organization.
Facilitators: We are pleased to offer a number of new topics in this series. The Rosehaven Outreach Education Team consists of a complement of Health Care Professionals (Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologist, Recreation Therapists, and Social Workers). Depending on the session, any one/two of the fore mentioned professionals will present on-site at your organization.
Target Group: These courses are designed for Health Care Professionals and frontline caregivers working in continuing care, community care, or assisted living.
Fee: The Rosehaven Provincial Program is funded through Alberta Health and Wellness to be a resource to the Continuing Care System. Therefore, courses are facilitated at no charge to your organization.
Registration: To register for a customized education day, please contact Outreach Education, at (780) 679-3006 or e-mail rosehavenprogrameducation@thebethanygroup.ca
FACE TO FACE SESSIONS TO CHOOSE FROM ARE:
Virtual Dementia Tour
- Enhances staff understanding of the challenges individuals face while living with dementia
- Provides an opportunity for caregivers to experience part of the aging and dementia lifestyle, providing staff with valuble insight into resident behaviours
- Reveals potential triggers to resident behaviours
- Increases empathy and understanding of staff dealing with persons affected by dementia Back to Top
One Happy Moment In the Day
- Understand how person-centred care and 'knowing' the client contribute to effective interventions.
- Identify ways in which role loss and the development of roles in our clients assists with meaningful activity.
- Identify the difference between boredom and need.
- Understand how meaningful activity can reduce behaviour. Back to Top
Families as Partners in Care
- In today's health care environment, working with "Families" is an inherent part of our world.
- The family plays an important part in promoting and maintaining the health of our residents through both physical and emotional support.
- Although the concept of "Family" is universal, each family in influenced by a lifetime of learning, experiences, cultural beliefs and family dynamics. Sometimes conflict occurs when we try to combine resident needs, family wishes and staff requirements.
- The purpose of this workshop is to help prepare continuing care staff for interactions with families of residents. Back to Top
Parkinson's Disease
- State the prevalence and main causes of Parkinson's disease (PD).
- Give examples of possible risk factors for PD.
- Identify signs and symptoms that may indicate PD.
- Explain common therapies and treatments.
- Describe the role of the health care worker in caring for clients with Parkinson's Disease. Back to Top
The ABCC's of Behaviour Management
- Explain and justify your view of person-centered care.
- Be able to identify antecedents of behaviour using the P.I.E.C.E.S. acronym.
- Give examples of potential consequences of behaviour for the individual displaying the behaviour, co-residents and staff.
- Outline care strategies based on the identified behaviour, antecedents and consequences. Back to Top
Retrogenesis (Stages of Alzheimer Disease)
- Administer and interpret the BCRS (Brief Cognitive Rating Scale) and the FAST (Functional Assessment Staging Tool).
- Identify the stages of AD based on cognitive, behavioural and functional abilities of the client.
- Explain and justify care strategies for individuals in stages 4, 5, 6, and 7 of AD. Back to Top
Depression in the Elderly
- State the prevalence and describe the consequences of depression in the elderly.
- Give examples of the common causes of depression in the elderly.
- Describe the basic types of depression.
- Identify signs and symptoms that may indicate depression.
- Explain and justify common therapies and treatments for depression.
- Describe the role of the health care worker in caring for elderly clients living with depression.Back to Top
Common Forms of Dementia
- Describe clinical features of four major types of dementias: Alzheimer Disease, Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Dementia.
- Identify commonalities and differences in treatments for these common forms of dementia. Back to Top
Introduction to Pain Management
- Identify possible sources of pain in the elderly person.
- Describe four categories of behaviours associated with pain.
- Give examples of complementary care strategies that may have an impact on the pain experience.
- Suggest reasons why behavioural indicators are a more practical style of pain assessment. Back to Top
Delirium
- Define delirium and identify common causes of delirium.
- Recognize symptoms in assessing for delirium.
- Identify strategies to prevent delirium.
- Summarize the treatment for delirium. Back to Top
Least Restraint
- Define restraints and the effects of restraints on the client.
- Define a least restraint philosophy and how to attain it.
- Identify alternatives to physical restraints. Back to Top
Creating a Therapeutic Relationship
- Give examples of verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Explain use of verbal prompts, announcements, object cueing, use of touch, music, humour, and graded physical assistance and client choice in ADL care.
- Explain use of positive reinforcement, distraction and replacement in preventing/reducing behavioural disturbances. Back to Top
Enhancing Abilities of the Person with Dementia
- Use the Abilities Assessment Instrument (AAI), to help identify remaining functional cognitive abilities, so that they may be maximized in the plan of care.
- Be familiar with categories within the abilities assessment including: Self-Care, Social, Interactional, and Interpretive Abilities.
- Define ability and environmental stimulation and demonstrate knowledge of a balance that can reduce stress in clients with dementia. Back to Top
Monitoring Behaviours: How can we tell if our intervention works?
- Describe benefits of measuring behaviours.
- Utilize behavioural measurement instruments i.e., Behavioural Observation Record, Behaviour Tracking Tool, Dysfunctional Behavioural Rating Instrument, Frontal Behavioural Inventory.
- Present behavioural data in an easily understood format. Back to Top
Fall Prevention for Older Adults
- Recognize impaired mobility.
- Be aware of risk factors associated with impaired mobility.
- Identify your role in the team approach to fall prevention and maximizing client’s functional mobility. Back to Top
Schizophrenia
- Identify common clinical features of schizophrenia.
- List examples of preventative strategies to utilize when working with an individual with schizophrenia and suggest reasons why these strategies are important.
- Explain and justify care strategies for individuals displaying behaviours such as suspiciousness or hostility. Back to Top
Personality Disorders in Older Adults: Avoidant, Dependant, and Obsessive Compulsive
- Describe Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorders (Cluster C in DSM IV-TR) and identify co-morbidities.
- Identify symptoms and personal beliefs characterizing Cluster C disorders.
- Describe assessment tools and non-pharmacologic treatment strategies. Back to Top
Frontal Lobe Function (Health Care Professional Level)
- Describe the anatomy and functions of the frontal lobe.
- Describe clinical signs of frontal lobe damage and areas of frontal lobe deficit.
- Identify therapeutic interventions including compensatory and cognitive rehabilitation strategies.
- Utilize assessment tools to identify frontal lobe deficits. Back to Top
Review of Depression Assessment Tools (Health Care Professional Level)
- Identify possible causes of behaviour related to emotional health.
- Screen for depression using the Geriatric Depression Scale.
- Administer and score the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia. Back to Top
Leadership (What makes a leader?) (Health Care Professional Level)
- Describe the relationship between emotional intelligence and effective leadership performance.
- Identify ways to develop a positive work environment. Back to Top
Psychosis in the Elderly (Health Care Professional Level)
- Identify how to assess psychosis.
- Describe the goals of care focusing on non-pharmacologic interventions for those with psychosis.
- Describe the pharmacologic interventions for psychosis. Back to Top
Depression in the Elderly
- Identify strategies your nervous system employs to attain an appropriate state of alertness.
- Suggest reasons why sensory needs should be considered when developing a careplan.
- Describe the seven senses which impact function, behaviours, and overall well-being.
- Give examples of sensory techniques which may generate arousal/alerting responses as well as calmness/contentment responses. Back to Top
Developing Relationships While Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
- Raise awareness regarding the complexities of boundaries in working with residents/clients.
- Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy boundaries. Back to Top
Analgesics for Pain Management in the Elderly (Health Care Professional Level)
- Drug therapy is part of a total treatment program.
- The Analgesic Ladder
- Ten Points when prescribing and utilizing OPIOIDS Back to Top
Psychotropic Strategies
- Identify drug therapy options when treating dementia in the elderly.
- Understand the protective and/or alternative therapies utilized in treating and preventing dementia
- Recognize the importance of cholinesterase inhibitors in slowing the progression of mild to moderate dementia.
- Discuss the need for medication assessment as part of the complete careplan for the elderly with dementia. Back to Top
Role Renewal
- Describe the meaining of the term "role" and associated concepts such as life stages, role transition, role strain, role loss, etc.
- Identify common roles assumed by adults
- Explain the importance of roles in giving meaning to life
- Describe causes and consequenses of role transition and loss; particularly among the elderly
- Administer and interpret role assessment Back to Top