Care of Older Adults in Long-Term Care: RN/IP Series

Price

Format

Interactive Modules

Target Audience

  • Interprofessionals
  • Registered Nurses

Description

This series was created to ensure that registered nurses and interprofessionals have the knowledge to care for older adults across the spectrum of long-term care. These courses promote team-based, coordinated, person-centered, evidence-based care for older adults in the long-term care setting.

Overview

The modules in this series can be completed individually or altogether. Nursing continuing professional development contact hours will be provided for each of the modules, not the case studies.

Individuals who complete this series will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to care for older adults in long term care who have multiple co-morbidities and very often a diagnosis of dementia. 
  2. Provide care that demonstrates respect and dignity to patients receiving care on the long-term care spectrum. 
  3. Explain the various conditions older adults may present with while receiving care in various long-term care settings.
  4. Apply the 4Ms in providing quality care for older adults. 
  5. Utilize the patient and family centered-care model in developing and implementing care plans.

Click below to purchase individual courses and case studies. 

Person and Family Centered Care

Serving a Diverse Population in Long-Term Care

Advance Directives

Distinguishing between Dementia, Delirium, and Depression

Falls and Fall Prevention

Health Literacy, Health Promotion, and Population Health

Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Older Adults

Persistent Pain in Older Adults

Substance Misuse in Older Adults

Urinary Tract Infections: Diagnosis and Treatment

Preventing, Recognizing and Treating Sepsis in Long-Term Care

Medication Management for Older Adults

Transitional Care for Older Adults

Medication Management for Older Adults (Case Study)

Transitional Care for Older Adults (Case Study)