Dementia Education Resources for Healthcare Providers
OkDCN offers free dementia education resources for healthcare providers
across Oklahoma which includes in-service training to all Oklahoma nursing
homes, trainings for health careers students at Oklahoma Technology Centers,
and trainings for Oklahoma first responders. These trainings can be instrumental
in changing perceptions and skills of frontline workers, educators, and
first responders who work with nursing home residents and community members
living with dementia. Please contact the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network at
OkDCN@ouhsc.edu for more information!
Contact Oklahoma Dementia Care Network
Learn more about dementia care training, resources and services for healthcare
professionals from the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network (OkDCN).
You can submit an online request by emailing:
okdcn@okdcn.org
On-Site, In-Service Nursing Home Trainings
These trainings are 60 minutes of didactic instruction, case-based learning,
engaging role-play, and take-home materials.
Walking With Dementiahelps learners describe cognitive challenges experienced by persons living
with dementia while gaining empathy for the care of persons living with
dementia. Teaches how to problem solve issues that arise with routine
care of persons living with dementia.
Advanced Dementia Carehelps learners better develop skills related to daily caring of persons
living with dementia.
Bathing Without a Battlehelps learners describe person-centered bathing and improves bathing care
by using methods that increase comfort, warmth, and decreased pain.
Dementia Care Teamshelps learners form quality teams for the care of persons living with dementia
by building trust, learning by listening, appreciating yourself and others,
and celebrating team success in dementia care.
Person Centered Carehelps learners understand how to prioritize the feelings, attitudes, beliefs,
and preferences of the person being cared for. Helps learners meet the
needs of those being cared and achieve the best outcomes for both health
professionals and the person being cared for.
Infection Controlhelps learners to understand core principles in creating an environment
that aims to reduce transmission of infection, to discover tools and strategies
for best practice in infection control in long-term care settings, and
to professionally discuss methods for reducing infection transmission.
Skin Integrityhelps learners understand special skin considerations associated with cognitive
impairment. Teaches frontline caregivers to notice and to share their
observations on skin issues of persons living with dementia with other
medical professionals to prevent skin breakdown.
End of Life Carehelps learners understand that persons living with dementia may live many
years with an unpredictable disease progression, making end of life care
challenging. Issues such as making medical decisions for persons living
with dementia, being present for the these individuals at the end of their
life, and supporting family members throughout are presented and discussed.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: What Matters Mostteaches learners how to align care of the person living with dementia with
the individual’s health goals and care preferences.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Medicationteaches learners to monitor the use of medications by persons living with
dementia to ensure that medications don’t interfere with what matters
to the individual, their mobility, and/or mentation across care settings.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Mentationteaches learners how to prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia,
delirium, and depression across care settings.
Age Friendly Dementia Care: Mobilityhelps learners to better understand how to ensure that older adults move
safely every day in order to maintain function and do what matters most to them.
Training for Trainers (T4T)
Mark your calendars to join us for a Training-For-Trainers presented by
the University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Dementia Care Network (OkDCN).
Ideal attendees are health program coordinators and educators from Career
Technology Centers, Nursing Homes, Hospitals, and Tribal Nations. Elevate
your training activities with dementia-specific content and take-home
materials designed for health career preparation courses (ie. Career Tech's
CNA, CMA, CMA CEU, LPN programs) and facility in-service efforts. Easily
integrate this content into your programs with our Facilitator’s
Guide and props.
(Additional trainings specifically for Police, Fire, and EMS Programs start in 2025!
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