Course Description


Florida laws states that no resident of a facility shall be deprived of any civil or legal rights, benefits, or privileges guaranteed by the law, the Constitution of the State of Florida, or the Constitution of the United States as a resident of a facility. Every resident of a facility shall have the right to live in a safe and descent living environment, free from abuse and neglect. 


Learning to recognize and reporting Resident Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation is a mandated in-service training for all Assisted Living Facilities employees. 

Upon completion of this course the Learner will be granted 1 hour of continuous education.

Population: ALF and Adult Family Administrator, Adult Family Care Home Provider, Nurses and employees. 





Instructor

April McCormick

April is a native Floridian. She received a master’ degree in nursing with a concentration in advanced practice nursing from South University from Savannah, Georgia in 2012. Over the past 17 years her passion as a Nurse educator and preceptor has employed her the provided enjoyment of empowering patients, families, students, and the community at large in various of health topics. In 2016 she attended St Petersburg College in Florida and completed her Funeral Arts Certificate. April is currently interning with Fuller’ Brother Funeral Home as a Funeral Director Intern. With the amassed skills and knowledge it has allowed April to educate her students in multiple areas of studies. Her love for learning has afforded her the ability to create an environment for learning and design an institution for training former and new nurses in care practices inside the Healthcare Center she directs. She enjoys mentoring up and coming nurses who share the same passion for advancing knowledge and promoting quality of life in the healthcare arena.For over 13 years April has championed the cause of raising awareness of advance assessment and disease management, among multicultural adults with multiple health disparities. April has worked in the demanding capacity of a Utilization Review Liaison in Broward County hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities in the areas of acute rehabilitation for over 20 years. This level of experience and love for healthcare has extended itself to writing training manuals and instructing group and private educational training in healthcare administration, nurse care, geriatric, parish nurse, and etcetera for the last 15 + years. April was instrumental for addressing and educating ecumenical personal and parishioners first hand on nutritional and medical assessments that prolongs life and advances quality care for over 16 years. The Parish Nurse community news which provides healthcare facts, tidbits and scientific based research promoting quality care, continues to thrive as it continues to promote medical care advocacy in high-at-risk communities of color.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome!

    • Objective
  • 2

    Introduction

    • Learning Text
  • 3

    Abuse

    • Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse
  • 4

    Negligence

    • Neglect: Failure to fulfill!
  • 5

    Abandonment

    • Leaving behind
  • 6

    Exploitation

    • Financial or Material

  • 7

    Self Harm

    • Neglect One Self
  • 8

    Mandatory

    • Hot-line Reporting

    • References

    • Exam