Mariposa (Aging Services) Training Courses
Creating a 5 Star Dining Experience - Nutrition, Hydration and the Resident with Cognitive Impairment
To create a truly successful dining experience requires that a process approach is embraced, including the social and sensory aspects of the mealtime experience - rather than only the nutritional aspects. 1 CEU
ViewCreating a Successful Technology-Based Brain Fitness Program for Older Adults
This seminar addresses how to successfully implement a computer-based brain fitness program, for widespread use by residents in a senior living environment. 1 CEU
ViewCultural Diversity - Supporting Culturally Diverse Residents
As a multicultural society, we have come to embrace cultural diversity and to celebrate the rich traditions this diversity brings. Discusses recognizing, embracing and responding to the cultural diversity of the ever-changing resident population. 1 CEU
ViewCulture Change: Understanding the Quality of Life Domains
Embracing the key elements of culture change will enhance the quality of life of our residents, the happiness of our staff AND help to ensure successful survey outcomes by meeting surveyor expectations related to culture change. 1 CEU
ViewDealing with Death and Dying - Implications for the Care Provider
As care providers, we strive to develop relationships with our residents - and to come to know our residents as individuals. How then, do we deal with the inevitable grief that accompanies the death of those we have come to care for? 1 CEU
ViewDementia and Delirium - Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis and what WE NEED TO KNOW
As health care providers, we are often called upon to differentiate between dementia and delirium. This course covers how to identify and accurately differentiate between dementia and delirium. 1 CEU
ViewDischarge Planning - Guidelines for Care Providers
Discusses discharge planning with a focus on balancing the goals and rights of the resident, and the desire of the IDT to ensure that residents have the support and resources necessary for a safe discharge. 1 CEU
ViewDynamic Volunteers - Building a Successful Volunteer Program
This course discusses building a dynamic volunteer program is a challenge to all facilities. The benefits are numerous and justify the investment of time and effort on the part of the volunteer coordinator. 1 CEU
ViewEffective Time Management
This course discusses effective time management strategies to empower us to use time effectively, accomplish more, often in less time and with less effort! 1 CEU
ViewElectrostatic Technology: A New Method for Surface Disinfection
This course will discuss a new method of applying surface disinfectants, called electrostatic spray technology. The major differences between electrostatic sprayers and other technologies will be covered, as well as a deep dive into how to select and use an electrostatic sprayer in your facility. 1 CEU
ViewElopement Prevention – 10 Strategies for Preventing Wandering and Elopement
This course provides facility staff with the knowledge, skills and abilities to reduce the potential for unsafe wandering and elopement among cognitively impaired residents. 1 CEU
ViewEnabling Freedom - The Role of the Prosthetic Environment in the Care of Residents with Dementia and Delirium
This course discusses how attending to environmental clues, we may support functional independence, mobility, perceived control, perceived security, and even cognitive functioning. Resulting in injury, mood and behavior problem reduction. 1 CEU
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