Online Class: Caring for The Elderly or Disabled Patient at Home
The care giver is the person who stays with the patient the majority of the time and is responsible for the patient's well being. The care giver oversees the patient's: dressing, meals, medications, activities, hygiene, and monitors their bathroom use. The care giver can be a spouse, relative, friend, or someone hired to perform these needed services. The care giver has many roles including: caretaker, educator, babysitter, cook, companion, and friend.
Instructor John Hicks R.N. will show you how to safely take good care of a loved one at home. Start learning care giving skills today. You will be able to take care of your spouse, parent, child, or friend without difficulty. Enroll Now.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools
to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service
that manages all your course completions.
This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.
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1.0 CEUs
Course Description
This class is for anyone who wants to learn how to safely take good care of a loved one at home. You will not only learn how to save thousands of dollars each month by caring for your elderly or disabled patient at home and avoid the expense of nursing home placement, but you will also be enriching their lives and yours by keeping them in the home environment.
You will be taught medical, physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of patient care. Learning to be a good care giver is important, and this course will help you excel into being a great care giver. Special needs of the elderly or disabled patient require skilled knowledge. Start learning care giving skills today. You will be able to take care of your spouse, parent, child, or friend without difficulty. Enroll Now.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).