Courses and Case Studies
The following listing includes courses and case studies developed by the Hartford Institute in collaboration with a panel of geriatric experts, the Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice Initiative (OHNEP) and the NICHE Program. Please visit this page for updated content.
COA-HC-RN: Medication Management for Older Adults
This course discusses the best practices for medication management in home care and identifies medications that are particularly high risk for older adults. The course also describes causes for different types of medication adherence and how different home care professionals can help with medication management.
COA-HC-RN: Palliative, Hospice, and End of Life Care
This course covers palliative, hospice and end of life care for nurses working within the home care setting.
COA-HC-RN: Presentation of Illness in Older Adults
This course describes physiological changes related to aging, identifies common ways illness may present in older adults, and distinguishes presentation of common diseases in older adults compared to young adults within the home care setting.
COA-HC-RN: Sepsis in the Home Care Setting
This course focuses on strategies that home care nurses can use to identify, treat and prevent infection and sepsis.