Home Health Aide On-the-Go In-service Series, Volume 14

Every year, home health aides must meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) requirement to complete 12 hours of in-service training annually. Deliver the relevant education your aides need to satisfy this requirement with Beacon Health's Home Health Aide On-the-Go In-service Series, Volume 14.

This new edition is filled with 12 informative, one-hour in-service training lessons addressing timely topics that matter most in homecare. Home Health Aide On-the-Go In-service Series, Volume 14 also provides authoritative, comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand training lessons for group classroom settings or self-study to offer home health aides the convenience and flexibility to study when time permits and to learn at their own pace.

With this resource, agencies will be able to:

- Help home health aides fulfill CMS' annual mandate to complete 12 hours of in-service training with condensed, practical lessons that focus specifically on their role and needs
- Easily prepare an in-service training program for the entire calendar year without having to coordinate staff schedules for on-site training
- Gain single-site reproduction rights to ready-to-copy pages of each lesson, attendance logs, and customizable certificates of completion for each participant

Each lesson includes:

- One hour of study using a concisely-written fact sheet explaining an important homecare-specific topic
- Suggested supplemental learning activities
- A descriptive homecare-specific case study
- Supplemental learning activities
- A 10-question post-test to measure aides' understanding and validate their comprehension of the subject matter
- An attendance log and certificate of completion to document staff training hours

Home Health Aide On-the-Go In-service Series, Volume 14, will include lessons on the following topics:

- Agitation
- Chronic conditions
- Dyspnea
- HIV
- Home health staff stress management
- Insulin
- Medication management and observation: Working with the case manager
- OSHA
- Post-surgery care: Joint replacements
- Safety in the community
- Stop the spread: Infection control
- Wound care