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June is Nursing Assistants Recognition Month...

Celebrating Nursing Assistants
Week June 13-20th

Now more than ever before a lot of attention is being directed to the care of our elders, frail, and disabled citizens. Nursing Assistants, or direct care workers, are a vital part of the healthcare team for patients and clients in many healthcare settings, and are honored during the week of June 13-20th by celebrating Nursing Assistants Week.

Online Inservice & Compliance Education

Pedagogy Inc. offers Inservice and Compliance education that is meant to be more than fulfilling annual inservice requirements. This continuing education is intended to promote growth and personal betterment. It should meet the educational needs of the staff and have a measurable impact on the quality of patient and client care. That is what you get when you utilize the educational tools of high quality inservice materials developed by a reputable education provider.

The next time that you need inservice materials turn to Pedagogy’s online Inservice and Compliance section of education. Our online Learning Management System of tracking is the most cost effective and time saving method of providing quality inservice and compliance education for your staff. The Learning Management System also allows for a complete education plan to be set, emailed reminders to keep staff on track and in compliance of your education goals. A full history of your staff’s performance is right at your fingertips.

Featured Author: Debra Collins

Debra Collins RN, RAC-CT is the CEO and President of LTCS Books, Inc., Debra maintains a knowledge base and writes weekly articles on long term care and home health care federal regulatory changes.

She has written and published twelve books for long term care and home health care documentation. Her publications include care plans, policies and procedures, and quality assurance audits for Directors of Nursing, Administrators, Nursing, Restorative Nursing, MDS Coordinators, Social Services, Activities, and Infection Control. The books are used by over one third of long term care facilities in the United States.

Debra has over 25 years of experience in long term care and home health care. She worked as an MDS Consultant for many years, and is certified as a Resident Assessment Coordinator by AANAC, the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators.

She is a member of the National Nurses in Business Association, National Association for Female Executives, American Business Women's Association, Bloomington Indiana Chamber of Commerce, and Ladies Who Launch.

Continuing education and inservices for certified nurse aides and home health care assistants is an important factor in maintaining quality resident/client care, as well as meeting federal requirements. By providing online inservices that consistently reinforce making quality of care a priority is a statement of your facility’s commitment to these standards. Our online Inservice and Compliance category of education is a cost effective means of providing interesting, enjoyable and interactive education.

Debra has authored:

Ambulation and Preventing Falls
Behavior Problems and Workplace Violence
Cognitive and Sensory Impairments
Documenting and Reporting Care and Vital Signs
Feeding Residents and Clients
Infectious Diseases
Nutrition, Hydration and the Elderly
Pain Care
Preventing Resident Abuse
Range of Motion Exercises
Resident Rights and HIPAA
Safe and Healthy Home Environment
Safe Transfers and Lifts
Skin Care
Standard Precautions
Toileting and Elimination

To see the complete list of Inservice and Compliance courses click the link.

Memberships a Cost Saving Method of Providing Education

Pedagogy Inc. offers Education Membership Packages to best suit the customer’s staff education requirements; Continuing Education Memberships offers continuing education courses for licensed professionals and Inservice and Compliance Memberships offer inservices for Certified Nursing Assistants (C.N.A.’s) and home care nursing assistants, as well as, corporate compliance courses needed for all staff.

The return on investment with education membership packages is tremendous, allowing you to offer Pedagogy’s ENTIRE catalog of education to your staff. It has more than just a monetary value; it is the value that comes from your employees providing a superior standard of care to your customers that comes from a superior standard of education. Time is money; let us help manage your time, to save your money, using our Learning Management System. Our Learning Management system allows you complete control of assigning and tracking course assignments. For the cost of one person to be sent away for an educational conference, 10 could have the benefit of online education through a membership package.