This instructor-led course covers strategies for better understanding your consumer's needs and using time managment and prioritization to meet them.

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Description

This is course # 2030 in IHSS Career Pathways. It is part of the General Health & Safety Pathway, which is a general pathway. 

This course will help you to recognize the unique characteristics of person-centered care in the home and the skills and knowledge required to meet the client’s needs. You will learn tips for meeting and learning about new consumers, understand how to take care of someone else’s home, and learn tools for time management and prioritization. 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate the use of listening skills to learn about a new consumer
  • Identify differences and similarities with a consumer from a different background
  • Describe some of the unique aspects of working in the consumer’s home
  • Explain how to use the care plan in home care
  • Identify what to observe, record, and report for this consumer
  • Explain why a clean, orderly home is beneficial to home care clients
  • Describe three ways in which housekeeping in home care differs from the housekeeping they do in their own homes
  • Identify two tips for time management when doing housekeeping tasks
  • Identify three safety tips for using electrical equipment
  • Define “time management” and “prioritize” and describe how to use them
  • Explain why time management is important in home care

Please note: Each class can only be taken once. Registrations for additional sessions of the same course are not eligible for payment of training time or incentives and may be deleted. If you wish to change your registration to a different time or date, please cancel your reservation in the User Portal after registering for the new session. If you need help, please contact CareerPathwaysInfo@HomebridgeCA.org.