Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Understand how to perform personal care
- Understand how to transfer individuals safely
- Understand how to re-position individuals safely
- Understand the importance of nutrition
Understand how to reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure ulcers
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Understand what AAC is and when it is used to assist face-to-face and written communication
- Become familiar with a variety of AAC strategies that can be used with individuals who have communication impairments
- Understand some of the ways that people with physical challenges can access communication devices
- Know how to access AAC services for someone who is experiencing difficulties with communication
After completing this module, there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
This module is designed to assist individuals who use non-invasive ventilation and their caregivers. Upon completion of this module, you should beable to:
- Explain what non-invasive ventilation is
- Explain the ventilator settings
- Identify various components of non-invasive ventilation
- Describe the daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance
After completing this module, there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
This module is designed to assist individuals who are invasively ventilated and their caregivers. Upon completion of this module, you should beable to:
- List some of the reasons why people need to be mechanically ventilated
- Identify various components of the ventilator
- Identify various components of the ventilator circuit
- Troubleshoot ventilator alarms
After completing this module, there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
This module is designed to assist individuals with tracheostomies and their caregivers:
- Explain the steps in tracheal suctioning
- Identify the parts of a manual resuscitator and explain its use
After completing this module, there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
This module is designed to assist individuals with tracheostomies and their caregivers:
- Explain the steps in tracheal suctioning
- Identify the parts of a manual resuscitator and explain its use
After completing this module, there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
This Anatomy & Physiology module is designed to assist individuals with tracheostomies as well as ventilator users and their caregivers:
- Identify the parts of the respiratory system (Anatomy)
- Understand how the lungs work (Physiology)
Before and after completing this module there will be an interactive quiz to help reinforce key concepts.
CERTIFICATE PRINTING
Due to recent security changes in Internet Explorer and Chrome browsers, if you wish to print your completion certificate you must press the “print screen” button on your keyboard and paste the image into a word processor or graphs program (such as Microsoft Word or Photoshop) to print. Alternatively you may use a screen capture tool such as Greenshot and use the print option.
