At Silverchair Learning, we always strive to give you courses that are relevant, engaging, and useful. We’ve already developed our slate of new courses for 2013, and we’re excited to share them with you!
In 2013 we’re developing 42 new courses, the most new courses we have offered in our history. You’ll see some new series, including:
- Clinical Skills: This highly-anticipated series delivers training on common clinical skills and can be used in conjunction with competency assessment and training.
- Home Care Staff Safety: Courses offering safety tips for home care staff when working in the field.
- Office Skills: Our clients have asked for courses that cover general skills, such as using Microsoft Office. This series helps all employees become more comfortable with this software, as well as the basics of coding.
Our Anticipated 2013 Course List is below:
Core Courses
Care Coordination
Cultural Competence
Determining Home Bound Status
Domestic Violence
Effective Documentation for Services Provided in the Home
Fall Prevention in Home Care
Home Care Regulations—G-tags
Improving and Maintaining Resident Quality of Life
Oxygen Safety
Professional Boundaries
Reducing Hospitalizations Using Technology
Skin Integrity Management for Home Care
Writing and Following Doctors Orders
NEW Series: Home Care Staff Safety
Being Street Savvy
Defensive Driving
Specialty Courses
About Series
About Choking and Aspiration
About C-Diff
About CHF
About Depression in the Elderly
About Pneumonia
Leadership Series
Conflict Resolution
Developing an Effective Mentoring Program
Effective Leader or Horrible Boss
Time Management
Medication Series
Assisting with Medication Administration
Avoiding Medication Interactions
NEW Series: Clinical Skills
Conducting a Cardiac Assessment
Conducting a GI Assessment
Conducting a Neuro Assessment
Conducting a Respiratory Assessment
How to Provide Oral Care
How to Catheterize a Resident M/F
How to Give Injections
How to Manage a person with a Tube Feeding
How to provide Peri Care to a Person with a Catheter
How to Provide Trach Care
How to Suction
Preventing Hospitalizations—How SBAR Charting Can Help
NEW Series: Office Skills
Coding Basics
Excel Basics
PowerPoint Basics
Word Basics
As a reminder, we launched a great slate of courses in 2012, with three courses coming in October and one additional course coming in December:
Courses Launched in 2012
Got Bugs? Dealing with Infestation in the Workplace
Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
A Supervisor's Guide to Harassment Prevention
AL - Preventing, Recognizing, and Reporting Resident Abuse
The Art of Hiring: Beyond the Breathing Body
LTC/AL/HH - Behavior Management – Real-life Scenarios
HH - Emergency Preparedness
HH - Required Notices
HH - Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
Orientation - Hand Hygiene, the Down and Dirty
Orientation - The Work of Safety
Orientation - Infection Control Basics
Orientation - The Right Stuff! Privacy, Security, Rights, and Responsibilities
MED - Psychotropic Medication Use in the Long Term Care Setting
MED - PRN Medication Management
First Aid
Enriching Your Activities Program
Root Cause Analysis: The Path to Improvement
A Clean House is a Happy House! An Administrator’s Guide to Housekeeping
PACE - What is PACE?
PACE - Participant Bill of Rights
PACE - Reporting Requirements
PACE - Care Planning Guidance
PACE - Grievances and Appeals
PACE - Medicare Part D
Diets - Not Just for Weight Loss
About Osteoporosis
About Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
About Specialized Diets and Nutrition
About Tuberculosis
Coming in October 2012:
LTC/AL - Resident-to-Resident Bullying
About Management of Intravenous Devices
Five-Star Quality Rating
Coming in December 2012:
Conducting an Investigation: What Really Happened?
Are you a Silverchair Learning client who would like to discuss adding these courses to your Assignment Plan? Please contact Service Delivery at 866-689-0846.
Are you interested in learning more about Silverchair Learning Systems’ courses and products? Contact 866-805-7575.
If you’re an expert in the field of senior care, become a Subject Matter Expert for Silverchair Learning! Contact Debi Damas, Senior Director, Regulatory Compliance and Content, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
