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Essential CNA training covering urinary incontinence types, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering urine specimen collection, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering vital sign reporting, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering vital sign trending, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering vital signs overview, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering weight-bearing status, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering wheelchair safety, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Essential CNA training covering wheelchair safety checks, including procedures, safety considerations, documentation requirements, and best practices for providing quality patient care.

Effective communication enhances the quality of care and resident satisfaction. This lesson covers therapeutic communication techniques, active listening skills, communicating with residents who have hearing or vision impairments, strategies for communicating with residents with cognitive impairment, handling difficult conversations, cultural sensitivity in communication, communicating with family members and visitors, and maintaining professional boundaries while building rapport.

Infection prevention is every healthcare worker's responsibility. This lesson covers hand hygiene best practices, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, airborne), proper PPE use and removal, environmental cleaning in resident rooms, linen handling procedures, sharps safety, biohazard waste disposal, and the CNA's role in the facility infection prevention program. Includes practical demonstrations and common infection control mistakes to avoid.

Mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders are common among long-term care residents. This lesson covers recognizing signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions in the elderly; the impact of loss, grief, and institutionalization on mental health; suicide risk awareness; therapeutic communication techniques; the CNA's role in supporting residents' emotional well-being; and when and how to report mental health concerns.

Proper nutrition and hydration are essential for resident health and well-being. This lesson covers assisting residents with meals, adaptive feeding equipment, positioning for safe eating, recognizing signs of dysphagia, aspiration precautions, measuring and documenting food and fluid intake, calorie count procedures, between-meal snack programs, hydration monitoring and encouragement, and recognizing and reporting changes in appetite or eating ability.