Everyday Healthcare Needs

• Communications and interpersonal skills
• Personal Hygiene
• Assisting with eating and hydration
• Promoting resident's independence and rights
• Taking and recording vital signs
• Measuring and recording height and weight
• Caring for the resident's environment
• Skin care, transfers, positioning and turning
• Recognizing abnormal changes in body functioning and the importance of such changes
• Safety and emergency procedures
• Infection control
• End of life care

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Care of the Cognitively Impaired

• ​​Communicating with cognitively impaired residents​
• Appropriate responses to the behavior of cognitively impaired residents
• Method of reducing the effects of cognitively impairments
• Techniques for addressing the unique needs and behaviors of residents with Dementia, Alzheimer's and others.​

Mental Health & Social Needs

• Learning to respond to clients emotional needs
• Awareness of development tasks associated with the aging process
• Enhancing residents independence and dignity
• Residents and family as a source of emotional support

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Basic Restorative Service

• Training the resident in self care according to the residents abilities
• Use of assistive devices in eating, dressing, transferring and ambulation
• Maintenance of range of motion
• Proper turning of range of motion
• Bowel and bladder movement training
• Care and use of prosthetics and orthopedic devices
• Providing  privacy and maintenance of confidentiality
• Promoting the residents  right to make personal choices to accommodate their needs
• Giving assistance in the getting to and participating in resident and family group activities
• Maintenance care and security of resident's personal possessions
• Promoting the resident's right to be free from abuse, mistreatment and neglect and the need to report any instance of such treatment to appropriate facility staff
• Avoiding the need for restraints in accordance with current professional standards ​