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CNAs and HHAs face daily challenges with documentation. Along with daily care tasks, it is essential to complete medical notes. Otherwise, medication errors, missed treatments, and serious legal issues might arise.  This course teaches the five rights of medical documentation in home health care. It covers what Florida CNAs and HHAs can legally do under state and federal law. Learners practice ways to protect patient information. The course also explains how to fix errors and report changes to nursing supervisors. Read more

Hiring in the Home Care and Hospice industry can be a difficult task. Often, very specific skills are needed that can be hard to come by. That’s why it’s important to know how to keep key employees and reduce employee turnover rate, as well as finding new ones! Join Eric Scharber, Principal at Exact Recruiting, a Simione Talent Solution, as he describes what methods work and do not work when it comes to trying to keep your staff and attract top tier talent. Read more

Welcome to Patient Rights and Advance Directives! This course is built to satisfy the patient rights requirement for home care. ​ Read more

Patient falls make up a large number of all sentinel events. According to a Joint Commission review of sentinel events (1995 to 2012) falls are the 6th leading cause of sentinel events and account for 7.6% of all sentinel events. Each year, greater than 1/3 of adults over age 65 will fall. Crucially, many of these falls are preventable. This course has been designed to help you protect patients from falls. It will discuss how balance normally keeps us from falling, risk factors for falls and strategies for preventing falls. Read more

Welcome to Continua Learning: Effective Pain Management in Home Care! Effective pain management is ethically, and clinically necessary and is essential from a regulatory standpoint. You are ethically obligated to relieve pain and suffering. You are also required to assess and treat pain by regulatory standards. This course is designed to teach you about effective pain management in the home care workplace.​ Course Reviewer: Margie Fincham​ Read more

This course explores what medical errors are, how they occur, and the methods and approaches to prevent them from occurring in the home care setting. Course Author: John S. Ryan Read more