Assisted Living & Personal Care

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe strategies that can be used to design, market, and facilitate activities and programs for assisted living.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures and strategies for preventing fluid overload and dehydration in patients.

Credentials essential to assisted living technicians and personal care assistants signify earners' ability to help people who are disabled, chronically ill, or cognitively impaired and who are living in residential communities.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the grieving process, potential emotional needs, role of the caregiver for a dying patient.

Assisted living technicians and personal care assistants help people who are disabled, chronically ill, or cognitively impaired and who are living in residential communities. They also help older adults who may need assistance to remain somewhat independent in independent living communities.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the steps and proper procedures for planning, purchasing, and serving food.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain basic procedures involved in housekeeping and describe safety rules and strategies in the home environment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain factors related to physical, social, and psychological needs associated with older individuals, including those who are memory impaired.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain practices, procedures, and precautions for ensuring infection control in the home environment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain proper procedures and policies for assisting adult patients with basic personal care activities.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to safely apply warm and cold applications.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain proper procedures and policies for assisting patients with rehabilitative, restorative, preoperative, and postoperative care.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain factors related to physical, social, and psychological needs associated with older individuals.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to apply basic rules for communicating to the home health environment.

This badge demonstrates earners' understanding of the long-term care environment, including the variety of caregivers who provide care for individuals in a residential environment, the types of options available for long-terms care settings, the services each offers and related costs and payment solutions.  Further, this badge demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of medical ethics as it pertains to patient and resident rights as well and the expectations of those to whom care is given.  

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the options and environments for long-term care.