Summary

COR's Personal Care Health Training focuses on providing an introduction on how to effectively take care of another person's basic needs. The training covers a broad range of topics from the importance of consent, proper infection control procedures, providing assistance with daily hygiene, foot care, and prevention of pressure sores and rashes, along with toileting/changing attends.

Learning Goals and Objectives

Hierarchy of needs
Informed consent, confidentiality and privacy/dignity
Infection control and universal precautions
Providing assistance with daily hygiene, such as: brushing teeth, hand hygiene, toileting/changing attends, and perineal care
Review of TLR (transferring, lifting and repositioning)
Prevention of pressure sores and rashes, including signs and symptoms of infection
Providing basic foot care
Nutrition for those with higher needs
Bowel and elimination care

There will also be discussion about aging and disabilities, fall prevention, how to properly take vital signs (such as blood pressure or oxygen saturations) and how to assess for pain.

COR Health Training - Personal Care