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Number: PSP102A
Title: Alternate Fundamentals Class
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Alternate Fundamentals class.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY102A
Title: Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description:
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: KWA099
Title: Orientation
Agency: Korean Women's Association
Description: Orientation
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
7/6/2009 9:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
7/9/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
7/13/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
8/3/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: COA102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
8/4/2009 9:00:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: OLY102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
8/11/2009 9:30:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: PSP102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
8/17/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
Number: CAR102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
8/18/2009 9:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
Number: PSP102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
9/2/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: COA102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
9/9/2009 9:00:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: PSP102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
9/14/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: CAR102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
9/15/2009 9:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
10/6/2009 9:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: OLY102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
10/6/2009 9:30:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: CCI102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
10/7/2009 9:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: COA102
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. If you have already taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
10/14/2009 9:00:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: PSP111
Title: Fundamentals Challenge Test
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 22 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY111
Title: Fundamentals Challenge Test
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 22 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI112
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Challenge Test
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR112
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Challenge Test
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA112
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Challenge Test
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP112
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Challenge Test
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
8/27/2009 10:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: OLY112
Title: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Challenge Test
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to State funded clients. This test is in place of taking the classes or the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals of Caregiving you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 28 CE
9/25/2009 9:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
9/25/2009 1:00:00 PM - OlyCAP - Port Townsend Office
Number: PSP121
Title: Fundamentals Video Test
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. This is a test for students that have reviewed the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 22 CE
8/27/2009 10:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: OLY121
Title: Fundamentals Video Test
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all individuals providing personal care services to state funded clients. This is a test for students that have reviewed all 10 video units. If you have taken this course, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 22 CE
9/25/2009 9:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
9/25/2009 1:00:00 PM - OlyCAP - Port Townsend Office
Number: CAR150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/16/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/22/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: COA150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/28/2009 9:00:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: CCI150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/29/2009 9:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: PSP150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
8/6/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
8/19/2009 8:00:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
Number: OLY150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
8/24/2009 9:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: CAR150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
8/24/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
Number: COA150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/4/2009 9:00:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: PSP150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/16/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: CAR150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/24/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
10/7/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: OLY150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
10/19/2009 12:00:00 PM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: CCI150
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: State mandated course for all Individual Providers must be completed within 120 days of contracting. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
10/29/2009 9:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: PSP155
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers - Continuing Education
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Continuing Education Credit Only - not to be taken in conjunction with Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals. State mandated course for all Individual Providers. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA155
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers - Continuing Education
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Continuing Education Credit Only - not to be taken in conjunction with Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals. State mandated course for all Individual Providers. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI155
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers - Continuing Education
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Continuing Education Credit Only - not to be taken in conjunction with Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals. State mandated course for all Individual Providers. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR155
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers - Continuing Education
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Continuing Education Credit Only - not to be taken in conjunction with Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals. State mandated course for all Individual Providers. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY155
Title: Safety Training for Individual Providers - Continuing Education
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Continuing Education Credit Only - not to be taken in conjunction with Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals. State mandated course for all Individual Providers. The course is designed to help you as a provider stay safe and avoid injury and illness related to home care services. Agency caregivers cannot take this course.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
7/6/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
7/9/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
7/13/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
8/3/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: COA202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
8/4/2009 8:30:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: OLY202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
8/11/2009 9:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: PSP202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
8/17/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
Number: CAR202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
8/18/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
Number: PSP202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
9/2/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: COA202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
9/9/2009 8:30:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: PSP202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
9/14/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: CAR202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
9/15/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
10/6/2009 8:30:00 AM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: OLY202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
10/6/2009 9:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Port Angeles Office
Number: CCI202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
10/7/2009 9:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: COA202
Title: Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving Self-Study
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class is a home study course with a classroom test. Study materials will be provided to the student at least one week prior to the test day. State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services to state funded clients. A copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor upon receipt of study materials. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 7 CE
10/14/2009 8:30:00 AM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: OLY211
Title: Modified Fundamentals Challenge Test
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and providing personal care services for state funded clients. Copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. must be provided to the instructor. This is a test only class. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 10 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP211
Title: Modified Fundamentals Challenge Test
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals currently holding a professional license and provides personal care services to state funded clients. Copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to instructor. This is a test in place of classes or video. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 10 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP221
Title: Modified Fundamentals Video Test
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: State mandated course for all individuals currently holding a professional license and provides personal care services to state funded clients. Copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor. This is a test for students that have reviewed the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 10 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR221
Title: Video Testing - Modified Fundamentals of Caregiving
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and provides personal care to state funded clients. Copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor. This is a test for students that have reviewed the videos. If you have taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 10 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY221
Title: Modified Fundamentals Video Test
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: State mandated course for any individual currently holding a professional license and provides personal care services to state funded clients. Copy of NAC, LPN, RN, etc. license must be provided to the instructor. This is a test for students that have reviewed the videos. If you have already taken Fundamentals or Modified Fundamentals, you need to take Continuing Education classes.
Credit Hrs: 10 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY329A
Title: Depression, How Can We Help?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Same as OLY329, but modified to 2 hours.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR301
Title: Transfers/Lifting, Moving & Positioning
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class will cover transfer techniques and procedures, proper techniques on lifting, moving and positioning of patients. How to prevent pressure sores, and a review of moving and transfer equipment. Hands on demonstration and practice sessions will be included.
Credit Hrs: 2.5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR302
Title: OSHA & Bloodborne Pathogens
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 2 hour class will review how bloodborne pathogens are spread. Review ways to control the transmissions of pathogens, and what is in a PPE kit.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI303
Title: Positive Behavior Managment
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Four keys to successful behavior managment, designing a Positive Behavioral Intervention Plan, Behavior management strategies. Geared to the population of clients who are behaviorally challenged, or exhibiting social emotional issues, children and adults.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY304
Title: Stroke, Alzheimer's, Developmentally Disabled, Mobility Impaired
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: The causes, symptoms, resulting behaviors, and needs for clients in each of these categories will be covered in this class. There will be a short non-medical description of the various conditions. The primary emphasis of the class will be to examine the particular needs of clients with each of these conditions and how caregivers can best meet their particular needs. Caregivers will be provided with strategies designed specifically for each of these types of clients that will assist clients in maintaining independence, dignity, and functional ADL levels. We will briefly discuss how professional caregivers can provide support to the non-professional support network involved in these clients' lives.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI305
Title: Decoding and Behavior Strategies
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: A child's developing spirit, developmental anxieties, decoding and defense mechanisms. How do we work with children and adults who have social emotional issues, and have challenges physically and/or mentally.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR306
Title: Patient with Decreased Mobility
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will indentify people who are vulnerable to problems with decreased mobility. It will help the student understand the relationships between constipation and/or incontenience with decreased mobility. The course will also discuss Range of Motion Exercises.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY307
Title: Cooking for Diabetic and Special Diet Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class will focus on special diet needs of diabetic clients. We will develop cooking strategies to provide nutritious appealing meals for clients with diabetes and other special needs. An emphasis will be placed on including the client in meal preparation, planning, and presentation. Caregivers will be provided information on food substitution and about resources to explore more food substitution options. Caregivers will use labels, special cookbooks, etc., to derive information about ingredients and contents of foods as they plan to meet individual client needs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY308
Title: Changes in Working Conditions
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: New developments in homecare, changes in regulations, and any changes in task definitions will be described. Any relevant Management Bulletins, RCW, or other changes will be reviewed. Caregivers will be instructed in how to continue providing safe, effective service in accordance with recent legislative changes. An opportunity will be available for students to receive instruction in areas of specific interest to them. A special emphasis will be made regarding health and safety issues. Caregivers will be reminded about the importance of proper reporting practices and regular communication with case management and social workers.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI309
Title: Developmental Therapy
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What does normal development look like, how to stage development milestones and determine gaps in development. Although this is for children it can also be helpful in understanding developmental lags in adults and how to move them forward.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY310
Title: Caregiver Wellness
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class examines the stresses and issues that confront professional caregivers. Primary causes and signs of stress and burnout will be identified. Caregivers will be provided with suggestions for promoting their own well-being such as diet improvements, recreation and exercise activities, work environment and conditions improvements, prioritizing personal needs, and developing support networks. Caregivers will be provided with information about resources available to them. Issues such as grief and loss, boundaries, and communication skills will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to participate in interactive discussions and to share their personal professional experiences.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY311
Title: Communication Skills
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Caregivers will be instructed in safe, effective methods of communicating with difficult clients. Caregivers will learn to not personalize client behavior, but rather to identify what is the actual issue that leads to the specific behavior. Caregivers will be instructed in active listening strategies and solution oriented problem solving. We will discuss potentially dangerous situations and how caregivers can mitigate potential problems that may arise. Caregivers will be instructed in proactive reporting strategies that may identify potential future issues and to assist client in obtaining needed services.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR312
Title: Cooking, Nutrition & Housekeeping
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course covers basic nutrition, cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance. Students will learn about the food pyramid, essential nutrients, safe food preparation, symptoms of food poisoning; and basic housekeeping.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI313
Title: HIV / Aids
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: The etiology and epidemiology of HIV, transmission and infection control testing and counseling, clinical manifestations and treatment, legal and ethical issues, phychosocial issues.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY314
Title: Mental Health, Stages of Life - How Can We Help?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: A brief review of the standard stages of human development will be described. We will focus on aspects of mental health that confront seniors and disabled individuals. Loss of physical abilities, loss of independence, loss of stature, memory and cognitive impairment are some of the topics that will be covered. We will also briefly discuss some of the more common mental health conditions confronted by clients and how caregivers can proactively help clients with these conditions. Students will identify topics of particular interest to them and class time will be reserved to discuss these topics among the group at large.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY315
Title: Grief and Sense of Loss
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Caregivers will discuss methods of helping clients deal with the sense of loss in their lives. Dealing with the loss of friends, spouses, abilities, independence, income, etc., are predominating aspects of our client's lives. Caregivers will develop strategies to help clients express their feelings, to understand their feelings, and to assist them with moving to the next stages in their lives. Caregivers will be instructed in cycles of grief theories, client warning signs, and possible referral sources. Students will identify topics of particular interest to them and class time will be reserved to discuss these topics among the group at large.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR316
Title: Blood Pressure / Heart Attack / Stroke
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class will cover facts about blood pressure, controllable and uncontrollable risk factors. How blood pressure affects your body and how to reduce your blood pressure. Demonstration and hands on lab on how to check a blood pressure will be included. Students will understand what happens during a heart attack and what causes heart attacks. A review of warning signs, risk factors, and how to reduce risks will be included. The symptoms, treatment, complications and prevention of strokes will also be discussed.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI317
Title: Powerful Communication Skills
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Communication is the key to successful relationships whether it is at home or at work. Good communication skills are necessary when working with your client or talking to your boss.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI318
Title: HIV/AIDS and Powerful Communication Skills
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This course will cover the etiology and epidemology of HIV, transmission and infection control, testing and counseling, clinical manifestations and treatment, legal and ethical issues, and psychosocial issues. In the powerful communication component the student will learn how to communicate with confidence, clarity, and credibility.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI319
Title: Stress - How to avoid it, what to do about it
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to work in a stressful situation and survive. How to take care of yourself in order to be a good caregiver to others.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI320
Title: Client Rights
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: In depth training on client rights. What are the challenges - the challenge between client rights as opposed to health and safety issues.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR321
Title: Stress: Coping with everyday life & Depression
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A class on recognizing stress, and a short quiz to determine how much stress you are really facing. A review of brain chemical messengers, Pick-Me-Ups pros anc cons, stress tolerance, how to reduce overstress and ways to permanently conquer overstress.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR322
Title: Allergies, Asthma & A Healthy You
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A class on teaching you about Asthma (symptoms, causes, and control) and Allergies (common allergies, causes, treatments). Learn how to be healthy with relaxation techniques, how to avoid injury, and adopting health habits.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY323
Title: Stroke and Alzheimers Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: The causes, symptoms, resulting behaviors, and needs fo clients in each of these categories will be covered in this class. There will be a short non-medical descripton of the various conditions. The primary emphasis of the class will be to examine the particular needs of clients with each of these conditions and how caregivers can best meet their particular needs. Cargivers will be provided with strategies designed specifically for each of these types of clients that will assist cients in maintaining independence, dignity, and functional ADL levels.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY324
Title: Workplace Violence
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class examines the workplace issues that confront professional caregivers. When available, guest speakers from law enforcement, violence prevention organizations, and mental health providers will be invited to promote a roundtable discussion on issues that may confront caregivers while perfoming their duties. A brief description of non-confrontive dispute resolution techniques, exit strategies, and situational awareness will be provided.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY325
Title: How Caregivers Can and Do Make A Difference
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class will identify how caregivers make a difference in individual's lives, how they better their community, and how the profession has a dramatic impact on the availabiltiy and cost of public services. Benefits provide to family members because caregivers are working for thier elderly or disable family members will be identified.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY326
Title: Developmentally Disabled, Sensory Impaired
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: The causes, symptoms, resulting behaviors, and needs for clients. Identify specific problem areas, discuss strategies, examine particular needs and best meet these needs. Strategies that will assist in maintaining independence, dignity and functional ADL levels. Proactive reporting strategies that may identify potential future issues and to assist client in obtaining needed services.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY327
Title: Cooking for Special Diets
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Develop cooking strategies to provide nutritious appealing meals for clients with diabetes and other special needs. An emphasis will be placed on including the client in meal preparation, planning, and presentation. Information on food substitution and about resources to explore more food substitution options. The use of labels, special cookbooks, etc. to derive information about ingredients and contents of foods as a plan to meet individual client needs.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY328
Title: Home Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Usual home safety concerns and possible methods to address them. Fire prevention, electricity use concerns, medication storage, unsafe furniture and appliances, and unsafe structures. Discuss methods to identify potential problems, how to encourage clients to proactively address the identified concerns and how to access resources for the clients. Instruction on specific emergency preparedness steps that can be taken to assist the client with potential medical, weather, caregiving and other identified emergency situations.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY329
Title: Depression, How Can We Help?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Brief review of the standard stages of human development. Focus on aspects of depression that confront seniors and disabled individuals. Loss of physical abilities, loss of independence, loss of stature, memory and cognitive impairment. Common mental health conditions confronted by clients and how caregivers can proactively help clients with these conditions. Depression among caregivers will also be addressed. Students will identify topics of particular interest to them and class time will be reserved to discuss these topics among the group at large.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI330
Title: Conflict Management
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How do you handle conflict, ignore it? Avoid it? Invite it? What do you do when you're in it? Let's talk about it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR331
Title: The Brain, Heart Attack & Basic First Aid
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn about high blood pressure and the risks for heart attacks. Review risk factors for strokes and the working of the brain. Review basic first aid techniques.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR332
Title: Preventing Falls & Home Safety
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A class on recognizing risk factors in the home. Learn how to prevent home accidents. Learn the 3 R's of Home Safety. Learn about safety aids and devices and how to use them.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR333
Title: Effective Communication
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Guest speaker, Speech Therapist Trudy Rosenberg, will cover how to communicate with elderly who have speech or hearing problems.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY334
Title: Dementia: Issues and Concerns
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Examine symptoms, causes, resulting behaviors and needs for clients with a variety of dementia producing conditions. Emphasis of the class will be to examine the needs of individual clients with each of these conditions and how caregivers can help support their independence and needs. Caregivers will be provided with strategies designed specifically for a variety of clients that will assist clients in maintaining independence, dignity and functional ADL levels. We will problem solve how the professional caregivers can provide support to the non-professional support network supporting individual clients.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY335
Title: Mental Impairments and our Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will develop strategies to help dementia clients recall information, learn new skills and engage with others more effectively. We will practice basic, standard language acquisition techniques, identify learning modalities, and identify possible visual cueing techniques. We will review principals for teaching/training DD clients and dementia client's new skills. We will incorporate Behavior Modification techniques and help caregivers be realistic and prioritize needed skills and behaviors to be learned.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY336
Title: Housekeeping and Prioritizing Tasks
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Identify standard priority tasks for each client - assistance with medications, bathing, food prep, exercising, dressing, etc. Identify other tasks that may be priority tasks for individual clients - blood sugar monitoring, issues with incontinence, etc. These tasks need to be done a minimum of daily and on regular schedules. Identify other tasks that are accomplished more sporadically (every few days, weekly, monthly) and a system to maintain records that they are being done.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY337
Title: Recordkeeping & Documentation
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Define why, when and how official case notes and records are maintained. This will include verbal as well as written documentation. Identify mandatory times and Best Practices times. Practice documenting events from role plays. Emphasize making daily progress notes. Report objective facts. Discuss the use and maintenance of informal journals. Draw conclusive data from records. Discuss how often, in what form and how to use both informal and formal records or journals. Review the benefit of maintaining records.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY338
Title: Ethnic Diversity, Family Constructs, & Accepting Differences
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Review common ethnic groups and characteristics in this area and nationally. Emphasize cultural awareness and accepting other backgrounds. Discuss Religious, political or cultural differences while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY339
Title: Respiratory Conditions, Oxygen Use & Asthma
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Possible guest speakers. Descriptions and standard practices of the most common conditions affecting respiratory systems. Discuss complications for these conditions and develop appropriate reasonable exercise regimes and be aware of the normal medications and routines. Look at oxygen use, its myths and precaution or safety issues.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY340
Title: Hospice / Palliative Care
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Guest Speakers will address end of life issues and how caregivers can be of assistance. Discuss emotionally supportive techniques to assist individuals in terminal situations. How to work in teams with other providers, how to assist medical professionals in communicating effectively and compassionately. Identify community resources and relevant professionals. How to deal with a variety of types of family members.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR341
Title: Body Mechanics & Preventing Falls
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will help you to learn to identify common causes of injury and how to avoid these by applying proper body mechanics rules to your daily activities. In additiona, learn to identify risk factors for falling in the elderly and learn to prevent falls or assist after a fall.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR342
Title: Diabetes
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A general study of diabetes. Learn about the different types of diabetes as well as frequently used medications and diets to help those with diabetes. Learn the differences between Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR343
Title: Preventing Accidents and Injuries / Confidentiality
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn safety guidelines for the use of sharps and biohazard material, and fire safety issues. Learn the RACE acronym and how it can help in an emergency. Be able to identify the most common accidents and how to prevent them. Learn what confidentiality means and what is confidential information. Understand your responsibilities as a healthcare worker with confidential information.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR344
Title: Menopause & Cholesterol
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A general study of Menopause and Cholesterol. Learn stages of menopause and about hormone replacement therapy. Learn the signs and symptoms of high cholesterol while finding out if you have some of the risk factors for high cholesterol and what you can do to lower it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR345
Title: Promoting Residents' and Clients' Rights
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn the Clients' Bill of Rights and ways you can promote them. Be able to define types of abuse and symptoms of them. Know the process of reporting abuse.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR346
Title: Domestic Violence and Keys to Correct Documentation
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn about the cycle of domestic violence and be able to define it. Know the caregivers response to suspected domestic violence. Be able to identify the importance of correct documentation. Know the legal aspects and reasons for documentation.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR347
Title: Preventing Skin Breakdown
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Be able to define pressure sores by stages, healing factors and early observable phases. Learn to describe risk factors on the Norton Scale to predict pressure sores. Learn about areas of concern in care for persons with pressure sores and about the guidelines from the Agency for Health Care Policy.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR348
Title: Back to the Basics of Nutrition
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Review the food guide pyramid. Learn about essential ingredients and the four "P's" of nutrition. Be able to understand the new food label.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR349
Title: Difference in Left and Right Sided Strokes
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Be able to define stroke and the two major causes. Learn to describe symptoms of left and right brain injuries and helpful interventions. Learn about other conditions of the brain and interventions for each.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR350
Title: Sexual Abuse
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn about the signs of sexual abuse that you may see in a client. Learn the reporting laws and the role that you play as a caregiver.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR351
Title: Patient with Decreased Mobility/Pressure Sores
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn to identify those vulnerable to problems with decreased mobility. Learn about ROM exercises and the principles behind them. Learn how to prevent constipation. Learn to recognize and treat pressure sores. Learn about position changes.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR352
Title: Safety Precautions
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A good class to take to brush up on those safety skills. Review/Learn ways to protect yourself while working in the home health field. Review safety measures to take around communicable diseases. Review emergency procedures.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI353
Title: Safety First
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Accidents happen, but how many can we prevent? In the home and outside tips on how to avoid accidents.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI354
Title: I Like Caregiving
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Affirmations help, how can we feel better about the things we do when there is very little positive feedback. Feeling good about your job is important.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI355
Title: Can Clients Choose?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Yes, clients can choose and can make choices that are good and bad. Class addresses choices clients can make and how to encourage better choices without infringing on clients rights.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI357
Title: Good Grief
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Often it is difficult to stand by and watch as your client loses more and more faculties, mental and physical. It is a normal reaction to feel grief, and grief can be healthy. Covers the process and how to cope.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI358
Title: Say It Better
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Teaches communication skills including, I statements, how to talk so people will listen, opening up the communication freeway.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI359
Title: Caregiving Challenges
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Addresses the challenges of care giving and how to take care of yourself so that you can take care of your client.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI360
Title: I Just Don't Have Time
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to juggle home, family and work. Time management skills.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI361
Title: I Don't Want To Go To Work
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Burnout is hard to handle but there are ways to get back in the saddle and feel good about it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI362
Title: Universal Precautions
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Simple steps to take that will last a lifetime.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI363
Title: The Emotional Rollercoaster
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: One day my client want me to wash her dishes, the next day she doesn't want me to touch them. I sometimes don't know what to do to make her happy. How to cope with your own emotional rollercoaster when you don't know if you are doing anything right.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI364
Title: Why Did You Say That?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Why do peope say and do the things they do? Especially when they are under stress. How should you respond and what can help you understand.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI365
Title: Grief and Loss
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How do I deal with the grief and loss issues associated with taking care of people who can't take care of themselves. How not to take their ultiple losses to heart, how to deal with impending death and death of a client. It's OK to grieve, let's work through it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI366
Title: If It's Not OK, Tell
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class addresses reporting how and when to do it. How to fill out forms. What to observe and how to chart it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI367
Title: Forms, Forms, Forms
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What to do with all the paperwork, how to fill it out. Knowing what is needed and the important information that you need to chart.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI368
Title: Cooking
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Does your client cook from scratch and expects you to do it too? We can help you learn the basics. With a limited budget you can make delicious meals in a few minutes.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR369
Title: Emerging Infections / Elder Safety
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 2-hour class covers the basics in both Infection Control and Elder Safety. Learn ways to avoid exposing your clients (and yourself) to harmful infections.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR370
Title: From Heartache to Hope: Dealing with Death and Dying
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This is a 4-hour course that discusses the strategies of dealing with Death and Dying. How to work through the grief and sense of loss that comes from losing a friend or family member.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR371
Title: Physical Therapy / Preventing Injuries
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 4-hour class is recommended for those who have suffered an injury on the job. Learn how to help yourself and learn how to avoid injuries in the future.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR372
Title: Living and Dealing with Diabetes
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A general study of diabetes. Learn about the different types of diabetes as well as frequently used medications and diets to help those with diabetes. Learn the differences between Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR373
Title: Special Menus and Diets & 101 Easy Ways to Keep a Clean House
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: In this 4-hour class you will learn some new recipes for your clients who have special diets. Review food pyramid, basic nutrition and safe food handling. Also, review proper cleaning techniques and daily housekeeping tasks.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR374
Title: Caring for Patients with Dementia
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 4-hour class will go through the different types and stages of dementia. Learn how to effectively work with your clients with dementia while maintaining independence and dignity.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR375
Title: Basic First Aid / Emergency Preparedness
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 4-hour class will teach you basic first aid that can be used in any emergency situation. Discuss emergencies (both medical and environmental), and how to prepare.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI376
Title: Grief Hurts
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: No matter what you lose, it can hurt, whether it is a spouse, a family member, or a pet. No matter, talking it out and understanding loss can help. Often it is difficult to stand by and watch as your client looses more and more faculties, mental and physical. It is a normal reaction to feel grief, and grief can be healthy. Covers the process and how to cope.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI377
Title: Universal Precautions & Work Safety
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Universal Precautions: An overview of HIV, AIDs, Hepatitis A, B and C, how they are contracted, how to prevent them and how to use universal precautions in the workplace. Includes legal rights and confidentiality issues. Workplace Safety: Wipe up those water spills, know where the fuse box is and lift with your knees. How to avoid accidents and be prepared for incidents on the worksite, keeping yourself and your client safe.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI378
Title: CPR
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Initial CPR certification needs First Aide class (CCI379). CPR class will be approximately 3+ hours. Initial certification good for 2 years, 4 hour recertification must be taken before expiration of last certification.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI379
Title: First Aid
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Medic First Aid certificate covers CPR for infants and adults, the circle of care and how to implement and maintain cardio pulmonary recovery. First Aid that includes splinting, emergency response, shock, dehydration, bleeding, legal rights and responsibilities and the good Samaritan act. If you are trying to get your initial CPR/First Aid certification, you must also attend CCI378 CPR class just prior to this class.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI380
Title: Eating to Live
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: We often live to eat and regardless of disease factors have to challenge ourselves to eat in a more healthy nutritiuos way. This class addresses some of the factors involved in healthy eating. Addresses specific dietary concerns and what they mean in regards to specific illness. Addresses special dietary needs for clients with restricted diets, diabetes, dialysis, etc.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI381
Title: My Cup is Getting Empty
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: One day my client wants me to wash her dishes the next day she doesn't want me to touch them. I sometimes don't know what to do to make her happy. How to cope with your own emotions when you don't feel like you are doing anything right. Affirmations help, how can we feel better about the things we do when there is very little positive feedback. Feeling good about your job is important.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI382
Title: Say It Different
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Why do people say and do the things they do? Especially when they are under stress. How should you respond and what can help you understand. Most important is the way you communicate. This teaches communication skills, including "I" statements, how to talk so people will listen, opening up the communication freeway.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI383
Title: Safety First
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Accidents happen, but how many can we prevent? In the home and outside tips on how to avoid accidents.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI384
Title: Client Choices
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Yes, clients can choose and can make choices that are good and bad. Class addresses choices clients can make and how to encourage better choices without infringin on clients rights.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI385
Title: If in Doubt, Report It.
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class addresses reporting how and when to do it. How to fill out forms. What to observe and how to chart it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI386
Title: Paperwork Ugh
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What to do with all the paperwork, how to fill it out. Knowing what is needed and the important information that you need to chart.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI387
Title: I need a day off
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Burnout is hard to handle but there are ways to get back in the saddle and feel good about it. Addresses the challenges of care giving and how to take care of yourself so that you can take care of your client.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI388
Title: Listening is a skill
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Listening skills that help you in communicating wuth your client and co-workers includes reflective listening, and other tips to good listening.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI389
Title: Time Managements Pays
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to juggle home, family and work. Time management skills.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI390
Title: Infection Control
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How do they grow? How to get rid of them. Controlling infection by being clean. Treat all germs the same, kill them: Simple steps to take that will last a lifetime.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI391
Title: Cooking
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Does your client cook from scratch and expects you to do it too? we can help you learn the basics. With a limited budget you can make delicious meals in a few minutes.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI392
Title: Advocating in the Doctor's Office
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Communication skills and how to use reflective listening, improve listening skills and advocate carefully and without interference. Using techniques that will encourage communication and sharing of information while leaving your client in control.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI393
Title: Medication Complications
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Common medications and side effects, how to find out what medication side effects are, things to look for when reporting to the Dr., advocating in the right way.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI394
Title: Ethical Questions
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What can you do when your client insists on giving you something? Why can't I let her pay for my coffee, it makes her happy? If she comes to my house to pet my dog isn't that OK? Separating work from friendship?
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI395
Title: All Behavior Has a Reason
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: It can be so frustrating to be manipulated every day of the week, to have your plan latered constantly by the behavior of another, or to constantly be in conflict over little things. Who's problem is it and how do you decide? How can you understand and what techniques can be used to avoid problems. Understanding behavior is the first step in getting a handle on your frustration.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI396
Title: Defining Diagnosis
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: There are many diagnosis out there and often not enough information or time to look it up. Diabetes, stroke, dialysis, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, developmental delays - bring your own information, e-mail or call in questions to lindamiddleton52@hotmail.com or call 1-888-493-8198 so that we can be prepared to answer your questions about people you are working with. Questions must be received within 48 hours of class time to be included. You can mail requests to PO Box 1787 Forks, WA 98331
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI397
Title: Dementia, Alzheimers & Memory Loss
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What are the differences and how should they be dealt with? An overview of these diseases and their progression.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI398
Title: Legal Do's and Don'ts
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Personal Care workers have to follow lots of rules and must adhere to them religiously in this line of work. The stakes are high for those who choose to challenge the laws. Make sure you know what they are and follow them carefully. An overview of Personal Care contract requirements that can affect you.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI399
Title: Mental and Emotional Disorders
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What are they, what do they look like and how can I work with them.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA401
Title: Transfer Review/Body Mechanics
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This three hour class will begin with reviewing basic transfer skills. The instructor will demonstrate Advance skills, modification of basic transfers and client movement skills. The student will practice the new transfer and client movement techniques. Methods to encourage clients to use and develop self movement skills will be demonstrated.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA402
Title: Confidentiality/Caregiver Wellness
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Class will include a review of confidentiality rules and expectations. In the Caregiver Wellness portion we will examine the unique stresses and issues that confront professional caregivers. Primary causes and signs of stress and burnout will be identified. Suggestions for promoting personal well-being will be provided
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP403
Title: Time Mangement/Team Work/Sexual Harrassment/Basic First Aid
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This course includes: 1) The basics of time management, including the benefits of time management skills and how to avoid time wasting behaviors. 2) An overview of team dynamics, each team member's role and how they interact. 3) A general overview of the causes, management, and prevention of sexual harassment. 4) Information about basic first aid. What to do in an emergency and tips on preventing accidents.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP404
Title: Cancer / Understanding Pain / Hospice and Depression
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: The course includes: 1) Understanding pain; types, causes, and treatments. 2) An overview of cancer, its risk factors, symptoms, and treatment. 3) Basic information about hospice, the philosophy and a description of services provided to hospice patients. 4) An overview of clinical depression including the symptoms, causes, and treatments.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA405
Title: Grief and Loss
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class will review the Seven Stages of Grief & Loss. Each of the seven stages will be discussed as it relates to the Caregiver, the Client, and the Client's family. Students will be encouraged to share both professional and personal experiences. Sharing of techniques used to "get through the hard times" will be welcome.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA406
Title: Communication Skills
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Gain an understanding of the importance of communication between the Client and the Caregiver. Different types of communication will be demonstrated and discussed. Obstacles to effective communication will be identified and methods to over come these problems will be practiced.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA407
Title: Workplace Violence
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description:
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP408
Title: Sexual Harassment / Basic First Aid / Cancer / Depression
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This course includes: 1) a general overview of the causes, management and prevention of sexual harassment. 2) Basic information about First Aid and what to do in an emergency. Tips on preventing accidents. 3) An overview of cancer, its risk factors, symptoms, and treatment 4) An overview of clinical depression including the symptoms, causes, and treatments.
Credit Hrs: 6 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP409
Title: Time Management / Team Work
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: An inservice that covers the basics of time management, including the benefits of time management skills and how to avoid time wasting behaviors. An overview of team dynamics, each team member's role and how they interact.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP410
Title: Understanding Pain / Hospice
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This course will help the student understand pain; the types, causes and treatments. It will also provide basic information about hospice, the philosophy and description of services provided to hospice patients.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA411
Title: Communication Skills
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Gain an understanding of the importance of communication between the Client and the Caregiver. Different types of communication will be demonstrated and discussed. Obstacles to effective communication will be identified and methods to over come these problems will be practiced.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA412
Title: Transfer Review
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This three hour class will begin with reviewing basic transfer skills. The instructor will demonstrate Advance skills, modification of basic transfers and client movement skills. The student will practice the new transfer and client movement techniques.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP413
Title: Team Work
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: An overview of team dynamics, each team member's role and how they interact.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP414
Title: Understanding Pain
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Understanding pain: types, causes, and treatments.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP415
Title: Hospice
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Basic information about hospice, the philosophy and a description of services provided to hospice patients.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP416
Title: Time Management
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: The basics of time management, including the benefits of time management and how to avoid time wasting behaviors.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA417
Title: Hands on Transfers
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Hands on Transfers
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP418
Title: Working with Difficult and Combative People, Developmentally Disabled, Understanding Cultural Diversity, Medical Terminology and Abbreviations, Customer Service in Health Care
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description:
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP419
Title: Passive and Active Range of Motion Exercises, Personal Safety in the Workplace, Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care, The Normal Aging Process, Working with the Mentally Ill
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description:
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA420
Title: Grief & Loss
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class will review the Seven Stages of Grief & Loss. Each of the seven stages will be discussed as it relates to the Caregiver, the Client, and the Client's family. Students will be encouraged to share both professional and personal experiences. Sharing of techniques used to "get through the hard times" will be welcome.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA421
Title: Dialysis Treatment & Diet
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: What is a healthy kidney, what are the causes of kidney failure and what are its treatments. Presenter Tess Correlos, Registered Dietician with the Dialysis Unit at Grays Harbor Community Hospital, speaks about the importance of diet. Learn about the different types of dialysis and hear first hand information from parents, dialysis patients, and a kidney transplant patient.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OAA422
Title: Skin Care and Prevention
Agency: Olympic Area Agency On Aging
Description: 1. Basic anatomy and physiology of healthy skin. 2. Factors placing clients skin at risk, example of diseases processes, aging process, environmental, nutrition. 3. Prevention of pressure ulcers, excoriations and abrasions, hands on examples of tricks to the trade. 4. Hands on experience in proper positioning.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA423
Title: Home & Community Services for Clients and Caregivers Part 1
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Topics include: Weatherization, Energy Assistance, Child Care Resource and Referral, Energy Conservation and Emergency Fund.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA424
Title: Community Services for Clients and Caregivers Part 2
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Topics include: SHIBA (Statewide Health Insurance Advice), Long Term Care Ombudsmen, Medical Transportation, Peer Counseling, Volunteer Opportunities, LITe (Low Income Telephone)
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA425
Title: Preventing Workplace Violence
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: If you have taken this class before, you cannot take it again. Guest speakers in a 3 part series: Part 1 - Labor & Industries guest speaker. Part 2 - How to be safe wherever you are. Part 3 - What happens when it's over.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP426
Title: Stress Management, Substance Abuse, Arthritis, AIDS, Confidentiality
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description:
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP427
Title: Bathing Tips, Assistive Devices, Seizures, Hepatitis-C, Professional Distance
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description:
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA428
Title: Treatment of Diabetic Foot Disease & Stress Management
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Part 1 - Treatment of Diabetic Foot Disease: Review a video and discuss early intervention and prevention. Part 2 - Stress Management: Guest speaker, Rebecca Robison, discussed ways to relieve stress and practice of stress releaving techniques.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA429
Title: CPR / American Heart Association or Red Cross
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Class performed by Joe from the Red Cross. Adult CPR training complements a variety of learning styles with hands-on practice and real-life scenarios. Take-away materials help retain skills and serve as reference tools in an emergency. Combination Lecture, Video and Hands-On manikin training.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA430
Title: Review of Transfer Skills
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class will concentrate on using proper body mechanics while doing transfers and lifts. A video will be used to show proper demonstration of a Hoyer Lift. Caregivers will practice with the Hoyer lift prior to demonstrating the ability to complete lift safely. All other transfers and lifts will be demonstrated by the instructor. Caregivers will have time to practice prior to demonstrating the ability to complete transfer safely.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA431
Title: Diabetic Education
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: The importance of checking the client's blood sugar prior to meals. Demonstration of some of the different glucometers. Planning meals based on blood sugar levels.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA432
Title: Wellness Tips
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Post-Trauma Do's and Don'ts. Our entire nation has experienced trauma and tragedy in the last couple of years. Many of our clients have had a difficult time dealing with the fears that these traumas have caused. Some of the clients need help dealing with the fear and anxiety they experienced when the trauma occurred. Caregivers just by the nature of the job, experience more losses than most people. Seeing the client declining mentally and physically is part of the job. The caregivers cannot help but feel the loss when the client is failing. Some clients expect a lot from the caregiver.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP433
Title: Drug Resistant Bacteria; Understanding Blood Sugar; Fire Prevention & Safety; Taking Care of Your Back; Standard Precautions
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Drug Resistant Bacteria: Learn more about germs, bacteria, antibiotics, drug-resistance, Salmonella & E Coli and infection control. Understanding Blood Sugar: What is blood sugar? What are the facts and what are the resources for information. Fire Prevention & Safety: What is fire? How are fires classified? How to prevent fires in the workplace, fire safety rules and how to prepare and using fire extinguishers. Taking Care of Your Back: Learn who is at risk, symptoms of back trouble, treatment of back pain and tips to keep your back healthy. Standard Precautions: What are standard precautions? Protect against bloodborne, airborne, droplet and contact transmissions, Do's and Don'ts, handling equipment and biohazardous waste.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP434
Title: Housekeeping Tips; Understanding Common Medication; Understanding MS; Understanding Alzheimer's Disease; Understanding COPD
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Housekeeping Tips: Learn what and how to clean using household items you already have. Understanding Common Medications: Learn about the many medications you or your client may be taking and adverse drug reactions. Understanding MS: What is Multiple Sclerosis and it's symptoms. How is it treated and how to assist a client that has MS. Understanding Alzheimer's Disease: Learn what the disease is, what causes it and how it can be treated. Also learn how to assist clients with Alheimer's. Understanding COPD: Learn about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, it's symptoms, causes, and treatments. Learn how to help clients with COPD.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA435
Title: Preventing Workplace Violence
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Violence can happen in the workplace. This class will help you be aware of this potential problem. The presenters Chuck Holmquist, Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, and Matt Organ, Grays Harbor Sheriff's Department will help you recognize the potential for violence and help you to take steps to prepare and prevent violence in your workplace.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OAA436
Title: Medication Management Seminar
Agency: Olympic Area Agency On Aging
Description: Part 1: Basic Medication Use and Guidelines. Part 2: Communicating with your Doctor and Pharmacist. Part 3: Common Medications for the Elderly.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA437
Title: Stress Management Skills; Being Assertive; Challenging Behavior Module 1 - Reflective Listening
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Stress Management: Demystify stress and understand what stress really is. Identify stress and discover steps in management. Being Assertive: Learn passive, aggressive & assertive communication. Challenging Behavior Mod. 1 - Reflective Listing: Learn a supportive technique that will help change challenging behavior.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA438
Title: Challenging Behavior Mod. 2 - Asking the Right Questions; Working on Purpose; Understanding Depression; Understanding Alzheimer's
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Challenging Behavior Mod. 2 - Asking the Right Questions: Learn when anger & blame turn into challenging behavior. Working on Purpose: This will help you with a good foundation and assist the experienced caregiver in need of a renewed passion to rediscover the power of purpose, maintain high standards, recognize personal & professional growth and personal improvement. Understanding Depression: An overview of clinical depression and it's symptoms, causes and treatments. Understanding Alzheimer's: An overview of the disease, it's causes and treatments and how the caregiver can meet the client's needs.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP439
Title: Performing Safe Transfers; Understanding Heart Attacks; Understanding Abuse & Neglect; Talking About Death; Understanding Ostomies & Ostomy Care
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Tips for safe lifting, use of transfer devices, procedures for a variety of transfers. Heart attack warning signs, risk factors, tips for helping clients who have survived a heart attack. What is abuse and neglect? Child and elder abuse. What is physical abuse, emotional, financial abuse? Neglect, self-neglect and suicide. Feelings about death, stages of grief, saying the right thing, listening skills, confidential communication. What are ostomies? How to care for them.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP440
Title: HIPAA-Privacy in Home Health Care; Understanding Restraints & Alternatives; Legal Issues for Nursing Assistants; Hearing Disorders; Handling Incontinence and UTI's
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Basic rules of HIPAA, what is covered, patient agreement, patient authorizaion and rights. Physical and chemical restraints, patient rights, the law and restraints, alternatives to restraints, working with restrained clients. Laws vs. ethics, assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, slander and libel. How the ear works - types of hearing loss, causes of temporary and permanent hearing loss, diagnosing and treatment for hearing loss. Types of incontinence, illnesses that can cause incontinence, tips for handling incontinence.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA441
Title: Building Personal and Professional Boundaries; Defining and Achieving Goals
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Defining Boundaries: What do they look like? What do they feel like? Developing Healthy Boundaries; When and how do we use them? Protecting Boundaries: Can, when and how do I move them? Achieving Goals: Helping your client define their personal goals, develop a goal achievement plan and work with your client to achieve those goals.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA442
Title: Nutrition and Aging; Kitchen Art 101; Kitchen Art 102
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Nutrition and Aging: Assist clients in meeting their nutritional needs. Topics include: Medication and nutrition, shopping and food storage, reading labels, common eating problems. Kitchen Art 101: Learn the foundation of working in a kitchen. Beginners learn the basics of cooking in the home kitchen and serve as a refresher to the more experienced "chef". Topics include: Preparting to cook, oven and stove use, utensils and kitchenware, using a microwave oven, and cleanup. Kitchen Art 102: This units builds on Kitchen Art 101. Learn more creative cooking, including: Reading labels, reading recipes, cooking from scratch, and creative cooking with limited resources. You will be able to create your own cook book.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA443
Title: Challenging Behavior: Modules I & II
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: If you have taken COA437 or COA438, you cannot take this class. Module I - Reflective Listening: The first technique for dealing with challenging behaviors. Learn the supportive technique that will help change challenging behavior to socially acceptable behaviors. Learn how to do this with an upset client, identify the types of listening, the reasons to use it and it's pitfalls. Module II - Reality Therapy: This will provide a tool that will help when anger and blame turn into challenging behavior. Learn the importance of three key questions and how to adapt and revise them for different situations and how to transition from reflective listening to asking the right questions.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA444
Title: Oral Health for Caregivers
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This course will provide information to help you meet the daily oral health needs of your clients. You will learn about daily routines, denture care, and ways to deal with the uncooperative client. You will learn both the "why" and the "how" of oral health problems and what to do when you observe problems. A portion of class time will be spent practicing what you have learned.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP444
Title: Oral Health for Caregivers
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This course will provide information to help you meet the daily oral health needs of your clients. You will learn about daily routines, denture care, and ways to deal with the uncooperative client. You will learn both the "why" and the "how" of oral health problems and what to do when you observe problems. A portion of class time will be spent practicing what you have learned.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA447
Title: Gaining Control of Stress
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Gain control of your stress by: Managing Anger - understanding the dynamics of anger and anger being a secondary emotion. Help each person identify anger in the early stages and discuss coping strategies. See the connection between anger and stress. Learn common work related stressors and techniques to manage them. Learn to be Assertive - discover the differences between passive, aggressive, and assertive behavior. Look at how to be assertive working with difficult people. Explore the rights and responsibilities of assertive communication. Creative Problem Solving - Homecare workers are involved in problem solving in their day to day work situations. Look at how to anticipate, evaluate, and choose creative solutions.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA448
Title: Using Humor to Cope at Work and Life; Bloodborne Pathogens; Type 2 Diabetes
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Using Humor to Cope at Work and Life - A positive work climate leads to a happier and more productive work force. This inservice explains how positive humor can be used to alleviate stress and create dynamic energy for work and life. Discuss the physical, social and emotional benefits of humor. Learn strategies for including humor and a positive attitude. Bloodborne Pathogens - Healthcare workers are at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The main ones for workers to be concerned about are HBV (Hepatitis B virus), HCV (Hepatitis C virus) and HIV(human immunodeficiency virus). This inservice focuses on those three viruses, how they spread, signs and symptoms of infection, and how workers can protect themselves against them. Type 2 Diabetes - Provides an introduction to Type 2 Diabetes; giving risk factors, symptoms, prevention and possible long-term complications. Describes how workers can assist with daily care requirements.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA449
Title: APS Reporting; Confidentiality; Caring for Alzheimer's Clients; Good Body Mechanics
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: APS Reporting - provides understanding of what abuse is and residents' rights that abuse violates. Confidentiality - the importance of maintaining an ethical code of conduct that guides one's actions and protects and promotes the right of each resident. Caring for Alzheimer's Clients - overview of the disease including comparison with dementia and the causes and treatments. Good Body Mechanics - basic information about body mechanics, transfer techniques and guidelines for safe lifting. Includes actual hands on practice.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP450
Title: Nutrition / Eye Disorders / What is a Stroke?
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Nutrition - Review of different diets for various diseases. Making grocery lists and shopping for the client with special dietary restrictions. Compare labels, exchange of economical recipes. Eye Disorders - Facts about eyes and how the eye works. Common disorders, diseases that can affect the eyes, keeping eyes healthy. What is a Stroke - Different causes of strokes, signs of stroke. What different parts of the brain do. Risk factors. How are they treated, what are their effects?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP451
Title: Mental Illness / GI Disorders / Infection Control: It's in Your Hands!
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Mental Illness - what is it? What are the different types, such as depression, bi-polar, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, post-traumatic stress and schizophrenia. GI Disorders - facts about the gastrointestinal system, heartburn, ulcers, diarrhrea, and constipation. When is a GI disorder serious? Infection Control - Protecting your clients during the flu season - includes washing hands, flu season, controlling infection during the flu season, is it a cold or is it the flu?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA452
Title: Caring for the Client with Type II Diabetes
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: You will learn to: Define Type II Diabetes, identify risk factors, identify symptoms and those requiring immediate care, describe possible long-term complications, describe activities that could prevent it and describe how you can assist with daily care requirements.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA453
Title: The Four P's of Problem Solving and Understanding Ethics
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Caregivers face challening situations every day. Although one can become a caregiver with little formal schooling and only a short-term training program, the complex daily reality of the job requires a high level of independent thinking and decision making. This class will help you learn how to use the four "P's" of problem solving and understand the ethics involved in providing quality care for the clients.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA454
Title: Foundations of Dementia Care
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This module teaches staff to understand Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and how changes in the brain contribute to different behaviors and communication limitations. A list of common abilities lost/retained is provided as well as tools for improving communication and a model to problem-solve difficult behaviors. Students will identify difficulties during mealtimes and improve communication in transferring and mobilization.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA455
Title: Teamwork in Skin Care / Improving Quality Service Through Professional Behavior
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn the causes of pressure sores and tips for preventing them. Understand the role and responsibilities of nurses from various agencies. What is your role as a caregiver? How do you work as member of the care team? Understand the importance of clear communication and proper procedure and how it affects the client. What does the State expect? How does it protect the client?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA456
Title: Building a Dream Team
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: This class provides and understanding of how an effective team functions, how teamwork is more productive than individual efforts, and how interdepartmental and/or interagency cooperation benefits the staff and clients. In this class, students will identify their responsibilities as a member of the team. Students will learn practical ways to improve their performance.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA457
Title: Boundaries and Creative Problem Solving
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Boundaries - This course will provide an overview of building both professional and personal boundaries. Topics include: Defining Boundaries; Challenges of setting boundaries when the client is a family member; Possible consequences to establishing boundaries; Practical steps in implementing boundaries. Creative Problem Solving - A four step process: Identifying the problem; Brainstorming for solutions; Picking a solution; Evaluating and passing on your solution.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA458
Title: Increasing Awareness in Alzheimer's / How Humor Can Improve Your Work & Life Skills
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Increasing Awareness in Alzheimer's: Recognize the symptoms early on, what to expect in the various stages and how it affects the brain. How Humor Can Improve Your Work & Life Skills: Recognize the rewards of humor; Define humor and laughter; Recognize appropriate and inappropriate times to use humor; The key to laughing at yourself; Strategies for humor in your life.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP459
Title: Intro to Dementia & Alzheimers; Essential Bedrest Skills; Working with Food; Emotional Losses in the Elderly
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Intro to Dementia & Alzheimers: Warning signs, risk factors, legal and financial issues, approach to care & communication. Essential Bedrest Skills: Recognize and prevent pressure ulcers, positions, moving, hoyer lift, bed pan, making bed. Working with Food: Microwave use, general cooking tips, safety in the kitchen, keep bacteria away and food safety and storage. Emotional Losses in the Elderly: Dealing with emotional loss, grief, loss of youth, family and friends, spouse,and health. Tips for helping your clients with loss.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP460
Title: Dealing with Parkinson Disease; Understanding Kidney Disease; How to Care for Someone with a Head Injury
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Dealing with Parkinson Disease: Early symptoms and causes, risk factors, complications and coping skills. Understanding Kidney Disease: Causes of kidney disease, types of kidney problems, signs and symptoms and facts about kidney stones. How to Care for Someone with a Head Injury: What is a traumatic brain injury? Signs and symptoms, causes, complications, prevention and coping skills. Frequently asked questions, bicycle and transporation safety.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA461
Title: Proper Body Mechanics and Safety in the Home
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn about transferring, mobility, lifting, positioning and repositioning. Tips on cleaning and working the home. Learn the importance of safety checks and procedures.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA462
Title: Skin Care; Protocol and Procedures
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Understand the importance of skin care. What to look for and what and how to document and report. Embrace your vital role in the responsibility of skin care. Work together as a group to improve the quality of life of your client.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA463
Title: Professionalism and Customer Service from A to Z
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Professional care starts before you walk through the client's door and doesn't end when you walk out the door. Become the professional you want to be. Learn how preparing, performing and processing your work contributes to the quality of care.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP464
Title: Caregiver Wellness; Understanding High Blood Pressure; Spinal Cord Injury; Obesity
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Caregiver Wellness: View a video on the importance of maintaining wellness as a caregiver, acknowledging and defusing difficult emotions, activities that foster self-esteem and well being. Understanding High Blood Pressure: What is hypertension? Who gets high blood pressure, what are the symptoms and how can you help the client? Spinal Cord Injury: Signs, symptoms, causes, risk factors leading to spinal cord injury. When to seek medical advice, complications and prevention. Obesity: What are the risk factors, complications, dietary changes, and behavior changes? Learn coping skills and how to deal with skin problems.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP465
Title: Professional Communication on the Job; What is Asthma; Over the Counter Medications; Safety Guidelines for Hepatitis A, B & C
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Professional Communication on the Job: Understanding what passive, aggressive and assertive communication is. How to be assertive with difficult people. What is Asthma: How do the lungs work? Symptoms, types and special forms of asthma, disorders similar to asthma, treatments and tips for helping clients. Over the Counter Medications: What are they? Tips against tampering. Reading an OTC Medication label. What are adverse drug reactions? Safety Guidelines for Hepatitis A, B & C: Risk factors, screening and diagnosis. Prevention and protecting others. Major ways transmission occurs.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA466
Title: Serving and Supporting the Type II Diabetic
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: By becoming more familiar with the disease, you will be empowered to serve your client and family with a sense of purpose. Caring and compassionate service comes from a knowledge base of tools and strategies. Come and learn this and more.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA467
Title: Working with People with Disabilities
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learning to be a person-centered caregiver. Identify common challenges in working with people with disabilities and principles in overcoming common challenges.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA468
Title: Recognizing Meth and Other Drug Abuse
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: What to look for, precautions to take, and cleaning these environments. What and when do you report? What are your rights?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA469
Title: Increasing Quality of Care for Clients with Dementia
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn how to support your client and their families through the sometimes perplexing times of Dementia. Learn proven strategies to help you be successful in helping your client and/or family member. Bring dignity and honor to an often misunderstood diagnosis and person.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP470
Title: Pressure Sores & Lower Extremity Ulcers; Women's Health Issues; Health Concerns for Men; Hospice: It's a Way of Caring
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Pressure Sores & Lower Extremity Ulcers: The 4 stages of a pressure ulcers, causes and risk factors, complications, treatments and prevention. Different types of ulcers, what causes leg ulcers? How ulcers are treated and wound care at home. Women's Health Issues: What happens as women age? Top 5 health threats facing women. 5 health tips, warning signs of major health issues. Health Concerns for Men: Aging issues for men, heart disease, prostrate cancer, accidents, stroke, and tips for reducing risks. Hospice, It's a Way of Caring: History of hospice. Who receives Hospice? How is it paid for? Why is Hospice care different? The Hospice Team. Care tips.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP471
Title: Overview of the Human Body; Dealing with Dizziness; Understanding Advanced Directives; How Wounds Heal and How You Can Help; Understanding Basic Human Needs
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: Overview of the Human Body: 7 systems in the human body. Myths and truths about the human body. Maintaining the human machine. Keeping an eye on your clients. Dealing with Dizziness: What it means to be dizzy. Facts about vertigo and other causes of dizziness. How is dizziness treated? Helping clients with dizziness. Understanding Advanced Directives: What are advanced directives and their purpose? History behind advanced directives. What is a living will, do no resuscitate order and durable power of attorney? How Wounds Heal and How You Can Help: Facts about wounds and healing. Types of wounds, what can prevent a wound from healing? Caregiver's role in wound care. Understanding Basic Human Needs: What are 5 levels of human needs? How illness can affect a person't level of needs. Ways to help clients meeting their needs.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP472
Title: All About Headaches; What is Dementia?; Sleep Disorders; Teamwork in Healthcare; Understanding Fatigue
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: All About Headaches: Headache facts. What are different types of headaches? What does a migraine feel like? Foods that may trigger headaches. When is a headache serious? What is Dementia?: What causes dementia. Different kinds of dementia, symptoms and prevention. Challenges for people with dementia. Sleep Disorders: Stages of sleep. What is sleep apnea? Schoop on snoring. All about insomnia, restless legs syndrome. Tips for helping clients with sleep disorders. Teamwork in Healthcare: Who are the memebers of the Healthcare team and their jobs. Communication tips for healthcare teams and tips for working with a team. Understanding Fatigue: Different causes of fatigue, helping clients manage fatigue, fighting fatigue with food. Energy conservation tips.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP473
Title: The Hoyer Lift and Other Assistive Devices for Transferring
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: How to use a Hoyer lift, transfer board, transfer belt. This is a hands on class. Focus is to keep clients and caregivers safe.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA474
Title: The Basics of Kitchen Fare and Nutritional Needs of Elderly Clients
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn to read labels for nutritional content and know basic needs of diabetics and others with limitations. What are the basic food groups?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA475
Title: Injury and Crisis Prevention
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Keep a safe home environment and learn and practice skills to prevent injury in transferring clients. Review emergency procedures and safe food preparation.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA476
Title: Documentation; Developmental Disabilities
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Documentation: What's important to note? Review of the client CARES assessment and reporting client health changes. Developmental Disabilities: Information and skills to help you work with people with disabilities.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA477
Title: Mental Health, Stages of Life, and Mental Illness
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: What are the stages of life? What is healthy aging? What can elderly people expect to experience in the aging process? What are depression, schizophrenia, and paranoia?
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA478
Title: Ethics; Violence in the Workplace
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Ethics: Sound decision-making within boundaries of care giving. Learn skills to use when faced with dilemmas in care and client needs. Review of confidentiality and client rights. Workplace Violence: How to stay safe in any situation.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA479
Title: Caring for People with Dementia and Other Disabilities
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: What does new research reveal about dementia? How can caregivers provide great service to clients and their families? How do we document behaviors? Learn more about disabilities (MS, MD, ALS, Parkinson's).
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OAA480
Title: Skin Observation Protocol; Basic Skin Care & Positioning; Fall Prevention and Strengthening/Balance Activities; Mental Health; Medication Awareness
Agency: Olympic Area Agency On Aging
Description: This class will cover skin observation protocol, basic skin care and positioning, fall prevention and strengthening/balance activities, mental health, and medication awareness.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: PSP481
Title: Developmental Disabilities / Oh My Aching Bones
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This is a two part class. In the first part of the class description and facts on Autism, Downs Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy will be shared with students including characteristics and signs of each disability. Students will learn tips to help clients with developmental disabilities. In the second part of the class students will learn the difference between Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis. The causes, risk factors, and coping techniques will be reviewed. Students will also about Gout and Fibromyalgia.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
7/10/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
8/14/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
8/19/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
8/20/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: PSP482
Title: Violence, Abuse, and Neglect / Battling Superbugs / CARE Plan
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This is a three part class. In the first part students will learn about domestic violence; who is at risk, early warning signs, types and effects of domestic abuse. Students will also learn about abuse and neglect, why do they occur, what are some early warning signs, phase of violence, and safety precautions. Part 2 will discuss MRSA and VRE, what are these diseases, preventing transmission, problems with antibiotic resistance. Finally the students will spend time discussing the CARE Plan, the description of tasks and what an authorized task is and what it’s not.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
7/17/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
9/11/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
9/24/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
9/25/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
Number: PSP483
Title: Pain in the Elderly / Common Phobias / Commonly Prescribed Diets
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description: This is a three part class. In part one the students will learn what pain is, what are the types of pain, common causes of pain, complications of pain, and how to work with elders in pain. In part two types and facts of the 10 most common phobias will be shared with the students, including symptoms and how the caregiver can help. Finally part three will discuss the different prescribed diets and reading food labels.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
7/27/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - LB Chautauqua Lodge
7/28/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Raymond Union Hall
8/7/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
9/18/2009 12:00:00 PM - Personal Service Providers - Hoquiam
Number: COA484
Title: Professionalism; Boundaries and Confidentiality
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn your role in professionalism, the importance of setting firm boundaries and the meaning of confidentiality and why it is necessary. 3 hours
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA485
Title: Services A - Z
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: We will review how services are initiated, how the hours are assigned, the role of case management/supervisors and the caregiver’s role as a member in the care team, the care tool and troubleshooting resources that may be available for our clients that they and you may not be aware of. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
9/2/2009 2:00:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA486
Title: Caregiver Burnout
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: What is caregiver burnout? How can you prevent it? What to do if it is already too late? Learn how to safeguard yourself against burnout and coping strategies if you are already in a burnout state. We will discuss the role that self care plays in the prevention of burnout. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
7/30/2009 2:00:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA487
Title: Abuse, Neglect and Mandatory Reporting
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Beyond Survival sexual assault group will talk to us about signs of sexual abuse. We will review the criteria for mandatory reporting, explain the consequences of not reporting and talk with a case manager from Adult Protective Services to better understand their role and possible outcomes. 3 hours
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
9/30/2009 1:30:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA488
Title: Infection Control and a Review of Infectious Diseases
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: In our ever changing world of home care it is crucial that we are aware of what infections and diseases are out there and how to protect ourselves. We will review proper infection control procedure, review some common diseases to include MRSA and we will talk with a Ryan White Case Manager to get up to date information about HIV and Aids. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
8/25/2009 2:00:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA489
Title: How to Cope With Death and Dying
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: In this course we will discuss the caregiver’s role in end of life care, the stages of dying and how to cope with the grief and loss that follows. 3 hours
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
7/7/2009 1:30:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA490
Title: Safe Driving Techniques and How to Prevent an Accident
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn how to keep our clients safe while we are transporting them. Get safe driving tips and information on how to avoid traffic related accidents and how to ensure your car is safe for transporting clients. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
7/20/2009 2:00:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
8/28/2009 2:00:00 PM - Coastal Community Action Programs - Aberdeen
Number: COA491
Title: How Does Caring for People with Developmental Disabilities Differ from Taking Care of People Who Are Geriatric?
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: We will learn the fundamental differences between geriatric care and caring for people who are developmentally delayed. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: COA492
Title: Kidney Dialysis, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), And How They Affect Your Client's Abilities
Agency: Coastal Community Action Program
Description: Learn how kidney dialysis works, the affect it has on your clients abilities and their well being. We will also review the life changing effects of debilitating diseases such as ALS and MS and what effects they have on our clients self esteem. 3 hours
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY500
Title: My Client is in a bad mood. What's up with that?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Caregivers often run into negative emotions. Help in resolving feelings and underlying causes. Demonstrate active listening techniques and communication methods.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY501
Title: Record Keeping & Documentation: Why we do it and how to do it right.
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Discuss the importance of keeping accurate and needed records and documentation regarding clients. Review ways to record which services were provided and why and how to document significant events with clients.
Credit Hrs: 1 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY502
Title: Infection Control and Assistance with Medications
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class will focus on two main topics and demonstrate how effective techniques with each will enhance the other activity. We will certainly emphasize and review the need to use inuveral precautions. We will review gloves, protective barriers and hand washing techniques, when to use them and why. Review of techniques to lessen chances of becoming infected due to contact, airborne or droplet transmissions. Emphasize how awareness, addressing potential situations quickly and maitaining oneself can help protect us and our clients. We will also review recordkeeping and standard methods -routines - that can be used to help protect caregivers and clients. We will practice methods to assist with medications, what is allowed and what is not.
Credit Hrs: 5 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY503
Title: Mobility - Wheelchair, walkers, transfers, ambulation - Let's work it!!
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class will focus on assistive devices to help the client move safely. Practice of ambulation skills, using gait belts, demonstrate and practice effective transfer techniques and methods to promote client independence. Identify and avoid danger points and practice preventing falls, mitigating damage from falls and what to do when your client falls. Discuss community resources. Focus on mobility outside the home and safety issues. Use of assistive devices that have not been used in previous classes.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY504
Title: Clients, Caregivers, and Family Wellness
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will identify methods that caregivers, their clients and family members of clients can use to help maintain their physical and mental well being. Identify consistent problems and issues that may confront individuals in these situations. What are the warning signs, what are the community resources? Discuss topics such as grief, loss, physical infirmatives, boundaries, etc. What are positive behavior methods and support networks.
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY505
Title: Clients and Cars
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Often cars are points of contention and misuse. We will focus on safe entry and exit from cars. We will develop safety protocols and practices for using the car with the client. Develop methods for trip planning that will promote efficiency and effectiveness. Practice problem solving techniques for the client. Route planning, prioritizing, anticipation, preparation and consideration will be concepts that are emphasized.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY506
Title: Bad Moods - Is it my fault? What can I do?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: How caregivers can assist clients who are in bad moods the minute they arrive. We will practice techniques to identify where the mood comes from. Can the caregivers do anything about the cause of the mood? We will develop distraction techniques. How can caregivers accommodate their client's mental status? Watching the client throughout visits may tell you how to schedule events. Can exercise, involvement, activities, food, etc. help? How can you identify possible things to use? How do you accept the client dumping their feelings on you?
Credit Hrs: 3 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY507
Title: Diabetes: What is a caregiver's role?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Descriptions and standard practices for the most common aspects of diabetes. Discuss some of the complications for this condition and develop appropriate reasonable exercise regimens, diet strategies, etc. What are the signs and behaviors and how can caregivers react. Help you be aware of the normal medications and routines and identify other conditions that can further complicate these situations. Methods of counting of carbohydrates and sources of information and resources.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY508
Title: MD Visits - Planning, Preparing, Persisting, Practicing and Promoting
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course emphasizes scheduling and planning for medical appointments. We share techniques to get clients in and out of the MD offices efficiently. We will practice preparing for the visit to get the most out of it. Practice of communication techniques to help the client communicate effectively with the doctor. What to do if the appointment is late and running past your scheduled time. What to do to after the visit to accomplish health goals. Discuss how to enable MD, RN, etc. to communicate with you as a member of the care team.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR509
Title: Recognizing and Tolerating Stress
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: How much stress do you carry in your day to day living? With this class, you will be shown how to recognize the stress in your life and rate it on a stress scale. Learn how stress affects you during the day and ways you can handle and treat your stress in a healthy and successful way.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY510
Title: The New Care Tool and Other Changes in Home Care
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Review the new CARE Tool and review current changes to Home Care.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR511
Title: How to Identify & Communicate More Effectively with the Hard of Hearing Client
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 4 hour workshop is aimed at giving caregivers a better understanding of the needs of the HOH (Hard Of Hearing) client and providing methods to better meet these needs by learing communication strategies and modifying the environmental setting. It will also include showing and describing the latest in assistive listening devices. Includes class discussion of techniques, demonstration and practice of techniques, taking a test.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR512
Title: How to Communicate With Your Client
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Psycho-Social and Mental Health needs of the Elderly. Participants will be able to identify how these needs change and stay the same through the years. Give three examples of how to help patients meet their own psychosocial needs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR513
Title: Healthy Living for a Happy Heart
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: How eating a well-balanced diet that includes plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables is just the the beginning of living a healthy, nutritious lifestyle. Discussions on ways to maintain your best weight, staying physically active and avoiding obesity.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR514
Title: Lifting and Moving
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Students will learn and participate in exercises for a healthy back. Students will learn how to prevent accidents/injuries with clients and/or caregivers. How to use body mechanics while moving a patient in a bed, or transferring from a bed to wheelchair. How to recognize and seek medical attention for a back injury.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR515
Title: Quality Living with Arthritis
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Basics of many forms of arthritis. Review of definitions, medications and exercises. Ways to help the day-to-day struggles that people face dealing with chronic pain.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR516
Title: Problems of the Digestive Tract (GERD, IBS, Constipation)
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Participants will be able to briefly describe the symptoms, causes and treatment of hemorroids, constipation, IBS, diverticulosis, GERD, and colorectal cancer. Identification of parts of the colon. Observe and report changes in a patient's bowel habits.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR517
Title: Patient Care: Little things that mean a lot.
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Assess and report patient's individual hygienic needs. Organize and plan the patient's morning care based on individual needs. Identify hygienic deficiencies.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR518
Title: Training in Infection Control and Barrier Precautions: 101
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Participants will be able to describe how pathogens are spread, explain ways to prevent transmission of pathogens, demonstrate proper hand washing technique and how to put on and remove gloves. Learn ways to care for a patient with respiratory illness.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR519
Title: Getting Creative with Special Needs Diets
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Review Diabetic, low fat, low salt and swallowing difficulty diets. Recognize special cooking needs for your client. Learn where to find information and recipes for special needs diets.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR520
Title: Aging and the Body Systems
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Participants will be able to define aging and discuss how aging effect the body systems and role changes that occur as one ages.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR521
Title: Managing and Dealing with Disruptive and Aggressive Behaviors
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Participants will be able to describe disruptive behavior using objective terms. Learn how to identify some causes of disruptive behavior and identify at least 3 ways to prevent the escalation of aggressive behavior.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI522
Title: Confidence Building
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Feeling good about yourself and the job you are doing helps to make the days shorter and encourages you to go back to work the next day. Helpful hints on how to build confidence and self-esteem in your life and job setting.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI523
Title: Emergency Rescues (CPR/First Aid Refresher)
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This four hour class will re-certify you in CPR and First Aid for the next two years.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI524
Title: Answers to Hard Questions
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Ethical questions come up all the time; answers are sometimes hard to process. Discussion around the principals of ethics in the caregiver's work place. Confidentiality issues and trying to make some sense of it all.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI525
Title: What Can I Say?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Communication is the key ingredient to success whether it is at home or at work. Learn communication and reflective listening techniques that will help you with every aspect of your life. Includes tips on conflict resolution and problem solving skills for everyday and work specific issues.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI526
Title: Reporting and Documenting
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: The best way to protect yourself is to learn how to document and report in an objective way. Know what is reportable and what needs to be documented, when, how, and what. What are the definitions of abuse, neglect, and exploitation and when do I report.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR527
Title: Community Access - Resources for Seniors to Obtain Equipment and Services
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn the list of agencies that provide senior services and how to contact them. Also learn to describe what kind of services are available.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY528
Title: Dementia and Related Concerns - Working with the Client, Other Professionals, and the Family
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Review the stages and types of dementia. Discuss who are members of the care network and what are their roles. Discuss how dementia can affect an entire family and what role the caregiver may have in this. We will review caregiving for individuals with dementia, concepts and strategies and discuss how to demonstrate these to people. This class will be oriented towards specific student generated topics and will focus on caregiving activities such as bathing, feeding and dressing.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY529
Title: I Have A Difficult Client - What Can I Do?
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: How caregivers can assist clients who are difficult. We will identify problem behaviors. Can the caregiver do anything about the cause of the behavior? We will develop distraction techniques. How can caregivers accommodate their client's mental status? Watching the client throughout visits may tell you how to schedule events. Can exercise, involvement, activities, food, etc. help? How can you identify possible things to use? How do you accept the clients dumping their feelings on you? We will practice boundary setting and conflict avoidance. We will focus on anger management techniques, behaviors directed at caregivers, and conflict resolution strategies.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY530
Title: Let's Plan That Grocery Shopping Trip to be Fun, Effective, and Safe
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Often grocery shopping can be a difficult or non-productive task for a caregiver. We will develop strategies that minimize difficulties, maximize opportunities for the client to gain benefit out of the trip, and develop techniques to promote independence and inclusion.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY531
Title: Adventures in Housework - Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Students will identify particular techniques that they use to accomplish certain housekeeping tasks. We will review expectations, but look for methods to improve our skill levels. We will emphasize that client satisfaction is driven by the client's standards. An attempt will be made to demonstrate particular usefull tools and products for specific purposes.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY532
Title: How to Access and Use Specific Community Resources to Benefit Your Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Caregivers are often the primary source for information for their clients and their families. We will discuss some of the sources of services for clients in this area and contact individuals. We will problem solve particular client issues that are generated either by the students or pre-designed by the instructor.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY533
Title: OlyCAP Resources and How They Can Help Your Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Required for all OlyCAP Home Care Aides and open to all others. This class will be a panel discussion of programs offered by OlyCAP (i.e. LIHEAP, Nutrition, Dental, Housing, Home Repair, Emergency Services, Case Management). The goal will be for caregivers to network with in-house providers to meet client needs.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY534
Title: Healthy Caregiver Practices and Options
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: In order to provide effective care, caregivers need to take care of themselves. We will review principles of self-care and maintenance. We will identify usual workplace and personal life aspects that impact caregivers' wellness. Each caregiver will design a personal enjoyment/exercise monthly calendar.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY535
Title: Let's Prepare for Unexpected and Emergency Events
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will review emergency preparedness practices regarding clients. These will include weather, health, interpersonal, earthquake, fire, transportation, and other types of emergencies. We will review what to do in advance, what to do during and what to do afterwards. This class will emphasize safety and preparation.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY536
Title: Let's Leave Work at Work
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will focus on how caregivers can effectively and appropriately say "no". We will encourange them to detach appropriately, leave work at work, build support networks, and communicate/listen effectively. We will discuss how to keep personal parts of your life separate from your work life. We will identify what are appropriate and safe parts of your personal life to share. We will practice and emphasize how to develop boundaries and identify appropriate roles.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI537
Title: I Don't Have Time
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: It is difficult to be everything to everybody. The demands of work and home is a difficult balance. Learn how to manage time and get more out of your day.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI538
Title: Any Loss Hurts
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Grief is a process that cannot be denied. How do we handle it when we see our client deteriorate as we watch or sometimes dies on our watch? It is important to understand and address our own feelings and the feelings of the client and family.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI539
Title: Nutrition Facts
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class covers healthy eating, reading food labels, vitamins and nutrients and special diets.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI540
Title: Protecting Yourself from Infectious Diseases: HIV/AIDs and Hep A,B &C
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to prevent HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis A, B & C by using universal precautions.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR541
Title: Oral Health for Caregivers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will provide information to help you meet the daily oral health needs of your clients. You will learn about daily routines, denture care, and ways to deal with the uncooperative client. You will learn both the "why" and the "how" of oral health problems and what to do when you observe problems. A portion of class time will be spent practicing what you have learned.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY541
Title: Oral Health for Caregivers
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course will provide information to help you meet the daily oral health needs of your clients. You will learn about daily routines, denture care, and ways to deal with the uncooperative client. You will learn both the "why" and the "how" of oral health problems and what to do when you observe problems. A portion of class time will be spent practicing what you have learned.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI541
Title: Oral Health for Caregivers
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This course will provide information to help you meet the daily oral health needs of your clients. You will learn about daily routines, denture care, and ways to deal with the uncooperative client. You will learn both the "why" and the "how" of oral health problems and what to do when you observe problems. A portion of class time will be spent practicing what you have learned.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI542
Title: What is a Developmental Disability?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: The history and challenges specific to people with developmental disabilities to include children and adults.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI543
Title: Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Cerebral Palsy
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Dealing with the disease, it's outcome and ways to improve quality of life for people living with crippling diseases.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI544
Title: Who Makes the Choice?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Everybody has rights and choices. We as caregivers need to make sure we honor the choice of the client regardless of our personal views and values. How to balance safety and health with choice and client rights.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY545
Title: Younger Disabled Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will cover the issues and circumstances confronting younger disabled clients. What are the particular concerns and differences in care. Discussion will include information on Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injuries; and paralysis injuries. We will consider differences in families, conditions, life situations, goals, activities and expectations for the younger disabled client as opposed to elderly clients. We will discuss problem behaviors.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY546
Title: Coaching and Cuing
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Caregivers will learn about effective learning theory and how to coach/cue clients to accomplish tasks for themselves. We will discuss routines, memory aids, initiating, identifying reinforcers, engagement skills, etc.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY547
Title: Interactive Listening and Truly Hearing
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: We will practice higher level listening and communication skills. We will use non-verbal communication skills, identification skills, and participatory listening skills. We will also practice listening to the actual words people use and what can that mean.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY548
Title: The First and Last 15
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: During each visit, techniques and tools to consistently maximize entering and leaving times and interactions between caregivers and clients.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY549
Title: Does Your Client's Weight Pose Problems? Caring for the Morbidly Obese
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Skin care, transportation, diet, clothes, bathing, transfer, can all be very difficult for overweight clients. We will cover these and other topics to improve our ability to care for heavy clients.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY550
Title: Clients: Depression and Motivation
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: How can we identify depressed clients? What can we do to help motivate them? We will discuss how caregivers can be effective with the depressed client. We will review local mental health care options.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY551
Title: Let's Get Things Done as a Substitute
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class is only appropriate for agency employees. Standard activities substitutes can engage in to be proactive in their providing care will be developed. We will spend time on how the regular caregiver can promote a substitute being successful.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR552
Title: Back to Basics: Handy hints for caregivers to help prevent back injuries / Infections
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Using safe lifting practices as well as using lifting equipment and aids will help you to avoid damaging your back. Students will learn how to prevent accidents/injuries with clients and/or caregivers. Students to learn and participate in lifting and transferring exercises. Infections - How to prevent the spread of germs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR553
Title: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. As Alzheimer’s progresses, individuals may also experience changes in personality and behavior, such as anxiety, suspiciousness or agitation, as well as delusions or hallucinations. This class will review the basics of the disease, symptoms and several care strategies and activities that may minimize or prevent behavioral problems.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR554
Title: Prepare for Emergencies / Housekeeping 101
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Prepare for Emergencies - Disasters can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate or confine you to home. What would you do if basic services-water, gas, electricity or telephones were cut off? The keys to coping with an emergency are awareness and planning. This class is designed to help students prepare for and live through emergencies that may occur. Housekeeping 101 - review basics in the correct way to clean and tips if you do not have those expensive cleaning products.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR555
Title: Healthy Lifestyles; Special Diets
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Better lifestyle habits can help you reduce your risk for heart attack. Learn what you can do to help prevent heart disease and stroke. Healthy eating, at any age, raises energy levels, boosts the immune system and protects the body against illnesses such as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes and osteoporosis. A healthy diet for seniors will provide high levels of nutrition and an appropriate number of calories in small quantities of food that can be easily digested. People in an advanced stage of illness will require special nutritional attention.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR556
Title: Living with Chronic Illness and Pain
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Living with chronic illness is an approach to health care that emphasizes helping individuals maintain independence and keep as healthy as possible through prevention, early detection, and management of chronic conditions, such as depression, diabetes, chronic lung disease, hypertension and congestive heart failure.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI557
Title: Social Security and other Program Mazes
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Clients will probably be confused about the programs such as Part D. Understand what to tell them and how to help them through the maze of paperwork. Advocacy and how to help your client understand programs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI558
Title: Saving a Life (CPR Recertification Course)
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: A four-hour class that will certify you in CPR and First Aid for the next two years.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI559
Title: Avoiding Blood Borne Diseases
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: HIV/ AIDs and Hepatitis A, B and C. How to prevent them by using Universal Precautions.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI560
Title: Avoiding Stress
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Easy to say, hard to do, but here are some tips to help you figure it out.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI561
Title: Diversity and Acceptance
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How good are we really at putting our own biases aside and really accepting other people’s views, and values. Let’s talk about it.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI562
Title: Developmental Disabilities
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: The history and challenges specific to people with developmental disabilities to include children and adults. Is it the same as mental retardation?
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI563
Title: The Client's Plan
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Translating the assessment into a plan that can all best serve the client. What is our responsibility and how do we work it all into a schedule that works for everyone? Addresses your role as a caregiver and the responsibility you have to carry out this assessment as it is written.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI564
Title: It Hurts to Lose
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Grief is a process that affects all of us when we lose something or someone we care about. It is important to understand and address our own feelings and the feelings of the client and family when a loss occurs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI565
Title: Why Does My Client Act That Way?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Ideas on how to manage difficult behaviors. Why behaviors occur, how to decode why they are occurring and good ways to handle them without infringing on rights. Everyone's behavior is affected when loss and disappointment strikes.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI566
Title: Ethics, My Job and Me
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Ethical questions come up all the time; answers are sometimes hard to process. Discussion around the principals of ethics in the caregiver's work place. Confidentiality, what is the right thing to do, even when it feels wrong.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI567
Title: The Essence of Time
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: You can't be everything to everybody. The demands of work and home.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI568
Title: Good and Nutritious
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class covers healthy eating, reading food labels, vitamins and nutrients and special diets all this good flavor. Nutritional dense eating.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI569
Title: Good Communication Skills
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: No matter how many times you take this class it is hard to change the way you talk and especially how you respond to others. Communication is the the key ingredient to success whether it is at home or at work. Learn communication and reflective listening techniques that will help you with every aspect of your life. Includes tips on conflict resolution and problem solving skills for everyday and work specific issues.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI570
Title: Basic Life Saving Techniques
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: CPR Recertification Course - 4 hour class to recertify you in First Aid and CPR for 2 years. Medic First Aid certification with the new updated guidelines for lay provider CPR and First Aid Version 6.0, intro to using the FRx Defibrillator. Must have taken CPR/First Aid prior to this class.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI571
Title: Positive Behavior Techniques
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Clients behavior can be challenging - what to do about it? What are positive approaches to bad situations? How to decode behavior, find the underlying cause and use control of your own behavior to manage the situation in a positive way. Use redirection, ignoring, avoid power struggles, think beyond the obvious.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI572
Title: Whose Rights Are They Anyway?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Everybody has rights and choices. We as caregivers need to make sure we honor the choice of the client regardless of our personal views and values. But caregivers have rights too, how do we make choices that accomodate both. How to balance safety and health with choice and client rights.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI573
Title: What Does DD Mean?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: The history and challenges specific to people with developmental disabilities to include children and adults. Is it the same as mental retardation? What is the diagnosis, how many kinds are there? Diversity and Acceptance and the DD population.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY574
Title: Assistive Devices, What They are and How to Use Them
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: A hands-on training on how to safely and effectively use many of the devices available to our clients. Review many of the illnesses and conditions that cause our clients to have limitations. Learn what equipment is avaialble for clients who struggle with mobility, vision and hearing. Learn how to help your client acquire equipment.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY575
Title: Elder Abuse, Adult Protective Services and Mandatory Reporting
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn about the state system that helps to protect our clients from abuse and mistreatment. Learn the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect. Get full information on the Home Care Aide's legal requiprements to report abuse and neglect and how to make a good report. Learn how to protect yourself professionally, emotionally and physically if there is abuse going on in your client's home.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY576
Title: Medication, What We Can and Can't do to Help Our Clients
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn in detail the state guidelines for medication assistance Learn how to help your client with this need and stay within Home Care limits. Review many of the common types of medications. Learn how to help your client make an individual documentation system for their medications.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY577
Title: Infection Control and Contagious Diseases, An Old Topic with a New Twist
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Review blood borne pathogens, proper use of gloves, goggles, gowns and masks. Learn about the many strains of staph infections, airborne infections, and other serious infections that can be passed by casual contact. Learn about the threat of flu and how to protect yourself and your client.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY578
Title: Diets, Food Safety and Sanitation
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn about the need for a sanitary food prep area and how to accomplish that with ease. Learn in detail about the various diets many of our clients require. Review of the common conditions and illnesses that require a special diet will be given. Learn the tricks of the trade in how to guide your client to eat or make healthy food choices.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY579
Title: Bathing, Peri Care and Skin Care
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn how to successfully and safely help your client to bathe, even the bed bound client. Learn about the common conditions of poor skin care, and how to recognize early signs of skin breakdown. Learn how to get a bowel and toileting routine going with your client to minimize the amount of accidents.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY580
Title: Mental Health and Communication
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn about the wide range of mental health conditions that many of our clients struggle with. Learn the difference between situational and clinically diagnosed mental health problems. Training on the method Reflective Listening will be given. Learn how to encourage the fearful client, work with the confused client, and calm the emotionally agitated client through effective communication techniques. Learn when and how to alert your client's case manager for help.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY581
Title: Professional Boundaries, How to Work with the Team and Avoid Burnout
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn how to be an effective professional and also have a rewarding personal life. Learn how to create and maintain professional boundaries with your client, and how to communicate with them effectively. Client confidentiality and HIPAA will be reviewed. Learn about work place ethics and behaviors and how they protect all of us. Learn how to work with difficult coworkers and professionals without getting involved in the drama.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR582
Title: Choices: Patient Rights, HIPAA and Dealing with Difficult Clients
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: What are patient rights? Learn to know and understand them. HIPAA Privacy Standards - overview of the purpose and provisions of the HIPAA laws. Learn to recognize Protected Health Information (PHI) and identify ways to act in compliance with HIPAA laws. Patient Rights - what are they and learn how to know and understand them. Dealing with Difficult Clients - Learn the types of client behavior that can result in difficulties and strategies you can use to build a healthy relationship.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR583
Title: Nutrition & Aging, Kitchen & Food Safety, Basic First Aid
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Nutrition and Aging - Learn the important information about basics of nutrition and how you can assist your client in meeting their daily nutritional needs. Discuss medication, nutrition, shopping, food storage, reading labels and common eating problems. Learn about swallowing problems - dysphasia or the inability to swallow can be serious. Kitchen Safety is no accident - Learn what causes accidents and how to prevent them to keep you and others safe. Heartsaver/Basic First Aid - Stay safe while on the job. Understand how to protect your health. Topics include: heart attack, care the the heart attack victim, mouth to mouth resuscitation, one-person CPR and aid for the choking adult. This will enable you to safely administer basic first aid during an emergency situation. Please dress casually for this class.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR584
Title: Watch Your Back / Immobility Dangers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Learn what you need to know to protect your back. Tips on taking care of your back and safe lifting practices. Immobility Dangers - discover the problems caused by immobility and what can be done to prevent or decrease the effects of immobility. Prevent pressure ulcers - how you can help. Prevent falls among older clients. Transfer clients safely. Provide good skin care to clients to prevent pressure sores and how to properly position your clients.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR585
Title: Infection Control Basics / Sexual Harassment / Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Infection Control Basics - how to perform basic, everyday tasks in home health care. Proper hand washing and patient grooming will be covered. Prevent the spread of germs, disease and infection. Learn acceptable hand washing techniques. Sexual Harassment - explains various forms and examples of sexual harassment in the workplace. How to prevent and respond to them. Learn how to detect and prevent violence in the workplace using OSHA guidelines. Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly - an overview of the different types of elder abuse and how to recognize the warning signs and what to do if abuse is suspected.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR586
Title: Managing Challenging Behaviors
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Common challenging behaviors of confused clients - learn strategies that you can use to effectively prevent, reduce or manage them. Learn simple ideas for activity programs to use with clients that have memory problems. Communication - the difficulties and importance of good communication. Learn how to handle difficult people. Problem behaviors - what are the best ways to manage problem behaviors and communicate with memory-impared patients. Offset potential problems and build healthy relationships with families even in the most challenging of circumstances. Learn time management skills that can help you add hours to your day.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR587
Title: End of Life Care
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Discuss death and dying. Learn about Advance Directives and when to use them. What are Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney? What are the attitudes about death and how can this affect your dealings with your client and their family? Hospice care - explore the meaning and learn what services they provide. Learn ways to help clients and families who are going through the grief process.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI588
Title: Mandated Reporting
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What are the definitions of abuse, neglect and exploitation and when do I report? The best way to protect yourself is to learn how to document and report in an objective way. Know what is reportable and what needs to be documented, when, how and what. But it is not only about protecting yourself.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI589
Title: Grieving for Hidden Losses
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Grief is a process that affects all of us when we lose something or someone we care about. Losses are sometimes not so obvious and affect us in different ways. How losses affect behavior, and how we can help as caregivers. It is important to understand and address our own feelings and the feelings of the client and family when a loss occurs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI590
Title: Grieving for Hidden Losses
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Grief is a process that affects all of us when we lose something or someone we care about. Losses are sometimes not so obvious and affect us in different ways. How losses affect behavior, and how we can help as caregivers. It is important to understand and address our own feelings and the feelings of the client and family when a loss occurs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI591
Title: Pathogens? Not Me!
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis A, B & C. How to prevent them by using Universal Precautions. Required annually. A two in one training for ADA and Blood Born Pathogens training.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI592
Title: Plans of Care
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Translating the assessment into a plan that can best serve the client. What is our responsibility and how do we work it all into a schedule that works for everyone. Address your role as a caregiver and the responsibility you have to carry out this assessment as it is written. Plans of Care must be made out to accommodate the clients choices for service delivery.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI593
Title: Feel Good About Yourself
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Feeling good about yourself and the job you are doing helps to make the days shorter and encourages you to go back to work the next day. If you don't feel good about yourself it is hard to do a good job. Manage your own stress and gain self-esteem.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI594
Title: Ethics, Setting Limits
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Ethical questions come up all the time; answers are sometimes hard to process. Discussion around the principals of ethics in the caregiver's work place can be different shades of gray, some of the right things we do feel wrong, how to you sort it out? Confidentiality, creating your own space and setting limits.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI595
Title: Manage Your Time, Have a Better Day
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: You can't be everything to everybody. The demands of work and home is a difficult balance. Learn how to manage time and balance your day.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI596
Title: Am I Really What I Eat?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class covers healthy eating, reading food labels, vitamins and nutrients and special diets all with good flavor. Nutritionally dense eating and good diets can help you feel better and help your client.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR597
Title: Me, Myself, and I
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A course designed for the health and well-being of the health care provider, employed in a variety of health care settings. The health care provider will compare his/her current body image to the physical characteristics of a competent and caring practitioner. He/she will also learn what comprises a positive health care work ethic.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR598
Title: Social and Life Skills in Life & The Workplace
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class covers dealing with social and life skills in every day life and the workplace. Topics will include: Communication Skills, Anger Management, Avoid Destructive Behaviors, Time Management, Budgeting, Comparative Shopping, and Getting Along with Co-Workers, Coping Skills - Relaxation and Leisure Skills, Understanding Relationships and Solving Problems. Review of Sexual Behavior in the Workplace.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR599
Title: Understanding Violence, Abuse, Stress, and Anxiety in the Workplace; End of Life Decision Making
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Understanding Violence, Abuse, Stress, and Anxiety in Life and the Workplace: Students will learn to recognize the differenct types of elder abuse and neglect. Recognizing stress will be covered and students will learns how to reduce overstress and ways to permanently conquer overstress.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR600
Title: Preventing Caregiver Injuries; Emergency Planning; Stop Infection in its Tracks
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A class on preventing caregiver injuries from slips, trips and falls. Review of risk factors and ways to prevent accidents. The class will also cover emergency planning for caregivers during storms, emergencies, and disasters. Instructions on how to perform safely, basic, everyday tasks in home care. This class will include a section on preventing infectious diseases in healthcare. What is hygiene? Review of common infections including flu, MRSA, SARS, and West Nile Virus. Proper hand washing and patient grooming along with universal precautions will be covered in this lesson.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR601
Title: Healthy Living for a Healthy U
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: Review healthy lifestyles and diets for yourself and clients. Ways to make you feel good about yourself. How to prevent Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, and what is cholesterol? Understanding what medical tests can save your life. Students will review the special nutritional needs of clients in an advanced stage of illness. Tips for health-friendly cleaning - you may not realize it, but your house is hazardous to your health.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR602
Title: Depression, Dementia, and Communicating with the Elderly
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class will review the signs and symptoms of depression, characteristics, treatment, medication, and prognosis. The class will also review the basics, symptoms, and several care strategies and activities that may minimize or prevent behavioral problems with dementia. We will also look at the difficulties and importance of good communication with the elderly.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI603
Title: Principles, Knowing What's Right
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class will address the ethical questions that often come up for caregivers; the feeling that you might be doing something wrong. Touching on ethics in care giving, sorting out the gray areas, and confidentiality.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI604
Title: Pivotal Vitality; Update CPR/First Aid
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class certifies you in CPR/First Aid for the next 2 years. Medic First Aid certification and learning to use the FRx defibrilator.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI605
Title: The Balancing Act
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Limited time? This class will help you learn to balance your work life and your home life. Planning appointments, daily schedules, and responsibilities and still finding time for yourself.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI606
Title: Healthy Eating For All
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to eat healthy, read and understand food labels. Cook tasty meals that are better for you and can accomodate special dietary needs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI607
Title: Having a Positive Outlook
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class will discuss taking care of yourself to manage your stress, gain self-esteem, and feel good about yourself and the job you do.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI608
Title: Using Universal Precautions
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to prevent HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, B, and C.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI609
Title: Is It Okay to Cry?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Learn ways to understand loss and our own feelings. Learn ways to help clients when loss occurs.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI610
Title: Necessary Reporting
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class addresses how and what to document and report. The student will learn how to be objective in documentation and reporting. Definitions of abuse, neglect, and exploitation will be taught and students will learn when to report.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI611
Title: Are We Understanding Each Other?
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Good communication is the key to good relationships with others; learn reflective listening and communication skills you can learn in all aspects of life.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI612
Title: Useful Conduct Skills
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Learn how to approach challenging behavior with positive techniques using redirection, ignoring bad behavior, and avoiding power struggles. This class will stretch students to think beyond the typical ways of handling bad behavior.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI613
Title: Understanding Diabetes
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Students will learn about the different types of diabetes. This class will help students understand how to prepare food, manage blood sugar, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI614
Title: Sensible Assistance
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What is reasonable accommodation? This class will look at 504 plans and how to look at things differently to allow positive outcomes for people who need accommodation. Discussion of the laws will assist students in understanding how to make things work for everyone.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY615
Title: The Art of Managing and Reducing Stress
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn what stress really is, both "good" stress and "bad" stress. Learn about the effect that stress has on us over time. A broad range of stress management techniques will be reviewed, including how to say "no" at work, and everyone will be encouraged to offer what they already do and know to manage stress. In this class, everyone will get to explore what things in their individual lives and jobs really "stress them out", and then develop an individualized plan to reduce that stress.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY616
Title: The Client Care Plan and Assessment Details
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This class covers why this particular state tool and document was created. How to read and apply the care plan will be reviewed, and the responsibilities of the aide will be covered. Reporting requirements and how care plans get changed will be covered. The rules and limitation of self-directd care will be covered.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY617
Title: How to Turn a House into a Home
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course will review the art of homemaking. How to turn a humble home into a warm and pleasant environment on a very limited budget will be covered and discussed. Learn nutritious recipes and how to set an inviting table. General housekeeping, the States requirements for sanitation and safety, and safe and affordable cleaning supplies will be covered.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY618
Title: Food Safety
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: In this class we will cover the basics of food safety - food storage; safe cooking and reheating, food handling and preparation will be covered. Food-borne illnesses and cross-contamination will be covered as well as how to break the cycle of spreading diseases through food. We will review what the State expects us to do to maintain sanitary kitchens in our clients' homes.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY619
Title: Personal Care Tasks and Transfer Training
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course will cover the essential care tasks that our clients require we provide simply so that they can get through the day. Skin care, nutritional support and hydration, medication management, oral hygiene, bed mobility and all the other personal care tasks will be reviewed and discussed. Methods for providing these tasks effectively in a busy schedule will be reviewed. Transfer techniques for the very dependent client will be reviewed.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY620
Title: Super Common Diagnosis
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course will cover the most common diagnosis that a Home Care Aide will see in the field. The causes and nature of CHF, COPD, Diabetes, Arthritis, Diverticulitis, Cancer and several others will be taught. We will cover strategies for effectively caring for these clients in a way that enhances independence and functioning.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY621
Title: Central Nervous Disorders
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Learn about seizures, Multiple Sclerosis, strokes, the various types of dementia, and other illnesses and conditions that affect the central nervous system. This course will cover how the central nervous system works, and how these diseases affect our clients' ability to function. Ways of maintaining or increasing our clients' abilities to function and care for themselves will be reviewed. Coping stategies for families will be covered.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI622
Title: Medical Emergency Training / CPR Update
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class certifies you in CPR/First Aid for the next 2 years. Medic First Aid certification
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/23/2009 9:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Angeles
8/20/2009 9:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: CCI623
Title: Ethics in the Workplace
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Questions for caregivers come up quite often. There are times that caregivers feel wrong about the things we do. This class will teach you the ethics of sorting out the gray as well as confidentiality of your own space.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI624
Title: Taking Care of You
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Students will learn how to balance work life and home life in the amount of time they have available. Information will be provided on how to plan your appointments, daily schedule, etc. while still finding time for yourself.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI625
Title: Nutrition and Disease
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Eating healthy, reading food labels, and cooking food for anyone with normal to special diets that is tasty and healthy. Learn about food and all of its value in controlling and preventing disease.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI626
Title: The Benefit of Positive Thinking
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Taking care of yourself to manage your stress and to gain self-esteem, to feel good about yourself and the job you are doing.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI627
Title: Understanding Loss
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Understanding loss and our own feelings to help clients when a loss occurs. Understanding behaviors with losing something or some one we care about.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI628
Title: When and What to Report, Paperwork, and Documentation
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Learn how to document and report in ways that are objective. Review the definitions of abuse, neglect and exploitation and know when and how to report.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI629
Title: Communication Tips and Uh Oh's
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: Good communication is the key to talking and responding to other people, clients etc. Learn reflective listening and communication skills in all aspects of life.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
7/15/2009 10:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Hadlock
7/16/2009 10:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Angeles
7/28/2009 1:00:00 PM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: CCI630
Title: Positive Behavior Approaches
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: How to approach challenging behaviors with positive techniques using redirection, ignoring bad behavior, avoiding power struggles. Learn to think beyond the typical ways to handle bad behaviors.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
8/13/2009 10:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Angeles
8/19/2009 10:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Hadlock
8/25/2009 1:00:00 PM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: CCI631
Title: Understanding a Common Long Term Illness
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class will focus on Diabetes; how to prepare food, keep your blood sugar in control, exercise and answers to your other questions. Learn how to understand the different types of diabetes and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
9/16/2009 10:00:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Hadlock
9/17/2009 10:30:00 AM - Concerned Citizens - Port Angeles
9/29/2009 1:00:00 PM - Concerned Citizens - Forks
Number: CCI632
Title: Diversity
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: This class will focus on accepting and honoring diversity. By learning the cultural background of your client, you can avoid misunderstandings and provide support in a way that is meaningful for them.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI633
Title: Developmental Disability (the history)
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: What is a Developmental Disability, People First language; same and different we are all special. Students will learn the history and new developments in the areas of development disabilities.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CCI634
Title: Rights, Choices, and Challenges
Agency: Concerned Citizens
Description: It is hard to balance choice and safety, how do you make the call and how do you manage this delicate balance
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR635
Title: Immobility in a Geriatric Population
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will cover problems caused by immobility and what the caregiver can do to prevent or treat the effects. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention and treatment of pressure sores, preventing falls and transferring clients.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
8/4/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: CAR636
Title: Alcoholism and Drugs: Understanding Addiction
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will provide you with information about alcoholism and drug abuse and how the use of these substances affects the body and the brain. Several drugs will be reviewed and you will be provided with information on how to recognize addiction in yourself and in their clients. Students will also receive information on how to approach a lifestyle change in the face of addiction.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
7/13/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
8/12/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
8/13/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. - Sequim
Number: CAR637
Title: Work Ethics; Boundaries in Your Workplace
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: No matter how young or old we are, respecting another person’s choices is a gift we give each other. This is never more important than in caregiving. This class will address how to maintain respect while supporting client choice. Also included in this class will be a review of recognizing abuse and neglect, including what to do if you suspect abuse; patient rights; HIPAA privacy standards; and prevention and response to sexual harassment and workplace violence.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/8/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
9/11/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. - Sequim
Number: CAR638
Title: Diseases: Living with a Disadvantage
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This class will review the basics of several diseases, symptoms, and several care strategies and activities that caregivers can use to effectively manage clients with these diseases. Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Arthritis, Autism, and Parkinson’s.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR639
Title: Healthy Lifestyles / Healthy Heart / Coping with Everyday Life, Stress, Depression
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: How to take care of yourself and your client; eating a well balanced diet, maintaining your best weight; staying physically active. The class will include a review of the basics on stroke, heart attack, and cholesterol. Students will also consider healthy ways to manage anger. Focus will be on simple lifestyle changes and risk reduction activities.
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR640
Title: Occupational Exposure Risks, Influenza Complications & Personal Safety for Home Health Caregivers
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This course will review four critical areas of safety: hand washing, infection control basics, FLU-Influenza, and kitchen safety. Students will learn appropriate was of controlling infection and preventing the spread of disease.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
8/26/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. - Sequim
Number: CAR641
Title: Living with Diabetes: Diets and Cooking
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: A class to review healthy diets for seniors that provide high levels of nutrition and an appropriate number of calories in a small quantity of food that is easy to digest. Review of Diabetic, Low Fat, Low Salt, and Swallowing Difficulty diets. Call will include demonstrations on how to shop and prepare healthy choices for clients.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
9/30/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
Number: CAR642
Title: An Overview on Safety, First Aid, and CPR
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: An Overview of First Aid training - this class shows students that knowing basic first aid can often limit the severity of any type of injury, or even prevent a death. The class will cover the following areas: cuts and bleeding, muscle pulls and sprains, burns, broken bones, shock, artificial respiration and CPR.
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
7/14/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Townsend
7/22/2009 10:00:00 AM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. - Sequim
Number: OLY643
Title: The Changing Face of Home Care
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: From chore services to high acuity care and nurse delegation, Home Care is changing. From 10 hours a month to 200 hours a month. What does this mean for the caregiver, who is the client of today, what services do they need and how does that impact the work that needs to be done. This is a mandatory class for all OlyCAP caregivers. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY644
Title: Ethics in Home Care
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course covers the role of ethics in the Home Care industry and how a strong understanding of ethics and ethical practices benefit both the caregiver and the client. The mission of Home Care and client and caregiver rights will be reviewed a discussed. Class participants will be given the opportunity to draft their own code of ethics to build and maintain professional motivation. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY645
Title: Bloodborne Pathogens and Infection Control
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: A review of HIV/Aides, Hep B and C, and many of the other contagious diseases the aide encounters in the field. Universal precautions and barrier methods will be covered with an emphasis on how to protect ourselves, maintain confidentiality and respect while providing effective care to our clients. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
7/7/2009 10:00:00 AM - Cancelled
7/21/2009 10:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Neah Bay Office
9/21/2009 10:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Campfire Clubhouse- Port Angeles
Number: OLY646
Title: Communication and Problem Solving for the Professional Caregiver
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course will provide the aide with the tools needed to assess a client and their changing problems, develop solutions, and work effectively with other professionals and providers. How to communicate in a way that shares important information, protects the client's dignity and privacy, and respects the efforts of other providers will be reviewed. Objective documentation and reporting requirements will be covered. 4 hours
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/21/2009 12:30:00 PM - OlyCAP - Campfire Clubhouse- Port Angeles
Number: OLY647
Title: Caregiver Wellness
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: This course offers the aide a mini-retreat from the hustle and bustle of our everyday work! The importance of self care will be covered. Relaxation techniques will be given and practiced. Each aide will have a chance to explore new methods of gentle self care and be able to develop a personal plan for wellness. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a towel. 4 hours
Credit Hrs: 4 CE
9/18/2009 12:30:00 PM - OlyCAP - Trinity United Methodist - Sequim
9/28/2009 10:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Neah Bay Office
Number: OLY648
Title: Life Losses
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: A two hour course that covers the dynamic of loss that aides watch their clients go through, from loss of health and independence, loss of financial freedom and loved ones, to the loss of their own life. What happens emotionally to the clients will be reviewed, and what aides can do to both help the client and manage their own emotions will be discussed. 2 hour
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: OLY649
Title: The Human Body, Part 1
Agency: Olympic Community Action Programs
Description: Did you ever wonder how the human body was put together and worked? Or, did you ever wonder what was really going on with your client's body? This course will cover the basics of three of the human body systems: the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory system and the cardiovascular system. The information provided will give the aide a better understanding of how diseases and conditions can compromise physical functioning. Part 2, covering the remaining systems, will be offered in 2010. 2 hours
Credit Hrs: 2 CE
9/18/2009 10:00:00 AM - OlyCAP - Trinity United Methodist - Sequim
Number: RAK990
Title: Nurse Delegation for Nursing Assistants
Description: This 9 hour self study course is required for Certified or Registered Nursing Assistants in order to accept delegation of specific tasks from a Registered Nurse. Advanced approval is required from a Senior I&A Case Manager or a DSHS Social Worker.
Credit Hrs: 9 CE
**No Class Presently Scheduled**
Number: CAR990
Title: Nurse Delegation for Nursing Assistants
Agency: Caregivers Home Health, Inc.
Description: This 9 hour self study course is required for Certified or Registered Nursing Assistants in order to accept delegation of specific tasks from a Registered Nurse. Advanced approval is required from a Senior I&A Case Manager or a DSHS Social Worker.
Credit Hrs: 9 CE
7/21/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
8/25/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
9/29/2009 1:00:00 PM - Caregivers Home Health, Inc. Port Angeles
Number: PSP999
Title: Alternate CE
Agency: Personal Service Providers
Description:
**No Class Presently Scheduled**