Staff Development


Skilled Care Pharmacy professional development and staff training courses

 

In addition to a complete catalog of continuing education classes for licensed nurses, Skilled Care Pharmacy offers a wide variety of professional development and general training courses that will be of benefit to your entire staff.

 

Professional development and general staff training programs are offered on an in-service basis for your convenience and include the policy and procedures, forms, assessments, quality assurance tools, etc., that are pertinent to the topic.

 

Professional Development

  • The Art of Delegation: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • Creating a Respectful Workplace: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • Customer Care Saves Time: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • Customer Service: Why It’s Important in Long Term Care: 1 Hour
  • Dealing with Difficult People: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • Easing the Journey to Quality Care Part I: A Systematic Approach to Problem Solving: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • Easing the Journey to Quality Care Part II: Getting the Results You Want: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour
  • In Search of Quality: Applying Systems Analysis in LTC Setting: Contact Hours 1.5 / Program 1.5 Hours
  • PREP: Promoting Retention with Educational Programming Nurse Aide Mentorship: Contact Hours 1.5 / Program 1.5 Hours
  • Sure Fire Steps to Facilitating Change: Contact Hours 1 / Program 1 Hour

General Staff Training

  • Safety
  • Fire Safety (Lecture or Self Instructional): 1 Hour
  • How to Prevent Back Injuries: 1 Hour
  • Patient Safety: Program 1 Hour

Infection Control

  • Blood-Borne Pathogens: 1 Hour
  • Flu and Pneumonia: 1 Hour
  • Infection Control and Hepatitis B: 1 Hour
  • Infection Control: What's It All About: 1 Hour
  • Influenza: Should I Get the Flu Shot? 30 Minutes
  • Tuberculosis: What You Need To Know (Lecture or Self Instructional): 30 Minutes

Nurse Aide Programs

  • Advanced Directives and End of Life Issues: 1 Hour
  • Aging: What's Normal; What's Not: 1 Hour  
  • Behavior Management: The Nurse Aide's Role: 1 Hour
  • Part I Dementia, Environment & Personal Losses 1 Hour
  • Part II Behavior Management Strategies 1 Hour
  • Part III Approaches to the Most Common Behavioral Problems 1 Hour
  • Diabetes Mellitus for Nurse Aides: 1 Hour
  • Preventive Skin Care: 1 Hour
  • Residents’ Rights: 1 Hour
  • Stroke: Better Knowledge Means Better Care: 1 Hour
  • What STNA's Need to Know Urinary Incontinence: 1 Hour

Professional Skills

  • Applying Root Cause Analysis to Resident Care Problems: 1 Hour
  • Competency Class – Implanted Port: 1 Hour
  • Competency Class: Intravenous Pump, Sterile Central Line, Peripheral IV: 1 Hour Competency Class: Infection Control/Central Line Dressing Changes: 1 Hour
  • Documentation Expectations for Activity Professionals: 1 Hour
  • General IV In-service: 1 Hour
  • How to Take Off Orders: 1 Hour
  • Medication Administration (Lecture or Self-Instructional): 1 Hour
  • SMARTT Medication Practices for Nurses and Direct Care Staff: 1 Hour
  • Overview of Midline and Central Line Catheters: 1 Hour
  • Skin Assessment and the Older Adult: 1 Hour
  • Survey Preparedness: 1 Hour  
  • Turnover Tips Medical Record: 1 Hour