TalentGro

On-the-job Training

• Mobility: Demonstrate use of appropriate mobility, balance and strengthening exercises as well as incorporating these into therapeutic activities
  • Demonstrate appropriate usage of adaptive equipment: large motor & small motor muscles- walkers, canes, wheelchairs, prosthesis.
  • Incorporate fall prevention strategies in care delivery and verbalize factors contributing to falls and strategies to minimize their effects.
  • Demonstrate appropriate turning and repositioning and use of devices to prevent skin breakdown.
  • Demonstrate appropriate positioning, transfer techniques, and monitoring of resident.
  • Reinforce basic range of motion and demonstrate use of related equipment.
  • Discuss complications that arise from improper positioning.
  • Demonstrate use of various assistive devices in ambulation.
  • Reinforce good body mechanics during all transfers.
• Activities of Daily Living (ADL’S): Demonstrate and use task segmentation in assisting a resident to complete ADL’s and appropriate use of adaptive equipment
  • Demonstrate and assist resident with reaching devices and other adaptive equipment.
  • Demonstrate how to modify the environment to promote independence in daily living activities.
  • Demonstrate understanding of how to monitor fatigue.
  • Assists with training/implementation of dressing/undressing programs, grooming, bathing, toileting, exercise/movement programs and eating/ swallowing programs according to plan of care.
  • Provides or assists in providing all assigned residents' ordered tasks within appropriate time frame, using appropriate infection control procedures.
  • Maintains residents' self esteem, privacy and confidentiality of personal information.
  • Assists residents to attain/maintain their individual highest functional level of independence.
• Restorative dining, swallowing deficits
  • Demonstrate understanding of resident specific goals related to a restorative dining program.
  • Demonstrate proper positioning for meal consumption - table height, distance from table, position of resident's elbows and shoulders.
  • Provide alternate food choices as per their plan of care.
  • Provide a positive experience for eating
  • Document intake and observations per facility policy.
  • Demonstrate use of built-up utensils, plate guards, and non-skid
  • Demonstrate safe feeding techniques.
  • Demonstrate understanding of hazards and/or complications related to swallowing.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the different types of diet textures and liquid consistencies.
• Restoring continence: Document response to individualized toileting plans and compile elimination data to determine appropriate toileting plans
  • Demonstrate understanding of the different types of incontinence.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the role in retraining.
  • Documents response to individualized toileting plans
  • Compiles elimination data to determine appropriate toileting plans.
  • Monitor hydration and its importance related to continence.
• Demonstrates appropriate use of special treatments (heat and cold therapy modalities) according to state-specific regulations
• Demonstrates prosthetic care and assistance