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This course provides tips on identifying elder abuse, and explains how you can report your suspicions.

This course provides tips on identifying child abuse, and explains how you report your suspicions.

Intended Audience: Location managers, billing managers, marketing/sales managers, regional managers, and other designated managers and supervisors. Use of the term supervisors will be used throughout this training as a generic term to include all in the intended audience.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Identify ways to recognize evidence of employee alcohol and other drug abuse.
2. Identify how to document employee alcohol and other drug abuse problems.
3. Identify how to conduct appropriate investigations related to substance abuse.
4. Identify how to validate and confront employees with substance abuse problems.
5. Identify ways to effectuate the basic requirements for drug testing.

In HR019c, you will learn about age-specific competency as it relates to people from newborn to preschool, school-age children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. You will learn that to provide proper care, the caregiver’s communication, and approach should be appropriate for the person’s age.

While effective communication should be a focus of home medical equipment specialists with all ages of patients, special attention should be paid to working with older adults as an increase in age can bring about medical conditions that may require more patience and an adjustment in how one provides and receives medical information. This course includes tips on how to better facilitate communication with older adult populations.

This course covers the topic of business ethics. Ethics is a challenging topic in the workplace because not every problem has a single correct solution. This course is intended to give you guidelines and get you thinking about ethical decisions in business.

This course provides an overview of ethnogeriatrics which is the influence of ethnicity and culture on the health and well-being of older adults.

Over 40 percent of American adults have obesity, putting them at increased health risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and some forms of cancer. This course provides basic information about obesity.

This course contains information about the prevalence and results of falls, and provides information that HME providers can share with their older clients to minimize the risk of falling.