Nursing Home Resources

OkDCN offers free in-service training to all Oklahoma nursing homes as well as trainings for health careers students at Oklahoma Technology Centers. These trainings can be instrumental in changing perceptions and skills of frontline workers who work with nursing home residents living with dementia.

For more information and to schedule your training, please contact: okdcn@ouhsc.edu

Join a Training-for-Trainers Event (T4T). Learn about the OkDCN-OK Tech Center collaboration and gain hands-on experience using free curricula.

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Rethink Dementia Care Training Event:
(Jan. 13th, 2023)

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OkDCN Free Nursing Home Staff Trainings and Webinars

• Schedule on-site in-service education (All one-hour trainings)
  • Walking With Dementia (improve knowledge of aging & dementia, promote empathy)
  • Advanced Dementia Care (dementia care skills building activities)
  • Bathing Without a Battle (specific skills for nursing home bathing routines)
  • Dementia Care Teams (creating a dementia-friendly and cohesive care team for resident safety and quality of life)
  • Four additional 1-hour trainings will be available in Spring 2022: Person-Centered Care, Infection Control, Skin Integrity and End of Life Care.
• Self-Learning Resources
  • Nursing Home In-Service
    • Caring For Resident (PDF)
    • Leadership Capacity (PDF)
    • Leading By Example (PDF)
    • QI - UTI Training (PDF)
  • OkDCN Presents! Q&A Webinars – Training session videos (5-7 minutes each)
    • Changing Role of CNAs During COVID-19 [.mp4]
    • Nursing Facility Infection Control [.mp4]
    • Addressing Depression and Social Isolation [.mp4]
    • Uses, Cleaning and Storage of iPad Equipment [.mp4]
    • Advance Care Planning
      • Advanced Directive (English)
      • Advanced Directive (Spanish)
      • Prepare Brochure (English)
      • Prepare Brochure (Spanish)

Age-Friendly Nursing Home Project ECHO. ECHO sessions include clinical case presentations by a nursing home team member followed by a 15-minute informational presentation delivered by a content expert from our ECHO Hub Team. We will focus the 4Ms of age-friendly care in nursing homes: What Matters Most, Medications, Mentation and Mobility. View dates and register online here.

OK Technology Centers

• Partner with OkDCN to gain training curricula that can be included in pre-professional programs.
• Expanded training with four dementia care modules currently available:
  • Walking With Dementia (improve knowledge of aging & dementia, promote empathy)
  • Advanced Dementia Care (dementia care skills building activities)
  • Bathing Without a Battle (specific skills for nursing home bathing routines)
  • Dementia Care Teams (creating a dementia-friendly and cohesive care team for resident safety and quality of life)
• Request a Supportive T4T Follow-up Visit. OkDCN staff can mentor Technology Center educators, observe teaching, refresh the training materials, and provide feedback.

More Long-Term Care (LTC) Resources

• Considerations for Memory Care Units in LTC Facilities (CDC)
• National Indian Health Board (NIHB) – COVID-19 Tribal Resource Center
• Administration for Community Living (ACL) – COVID-19 Resources – Check often for updates
• Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training – Course 3814: 15-module online training from CDC Train; available for CEUs with registration
• TRAIN.org Learning Network (free) – LTC Infection Control education

View additional information about our Age-Friendly Healthy System Resources.