Understanding Behaviors in Home Health

Course Code: REL-PAC-0-UBHH

Hours: 0.5

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2026

Learning Objectives:
Explain how to identify the meaning behind behaviors in patients with dementia.
Describe how to respond to behaviors that patients with dementia exhibit.
Identify at least three interventions that you can use to manage behaviors in patients with dementia.

Outline:
Section 1: Introduction

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Section 2: Finding the Meaning of Behaviors

What Are Behaviors?

Actions vs. Reactions

Stress

Triggers

Review

Summary

Section 3: Responding to Behaviors

To Respond or Not to Respond

Prepare

Prevent

Respond in the Present

Review

Summary

Section 4: Conclusion

Summary

Course Contributor

References

Congratulations!

Instructor: Jennifer W. Burks, M.S.N., R.N.

Jennifer has over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience, and her areas of expertise are critical care and home health. She is certified as an OASIS Specialist- Clinical (COS-C) and is a Curriculum Designer in post-acute care for Relias. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Virginia in 1993 and her Master of Science in Nursing from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1996. Her professional practice in education is guided by a philosophy borrowed from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing, “I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose, I venture to give her some hints.”

Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: General Staff; in the following settings: Post-Acute Care.

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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.