Geriatric Care Courses

Ethics of aged care advice

Understanding your ethical obligations to older clients

• OpenLearning
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Aged Care Clinical Risk Management Fundamentals

This 2.5 hour short CPD course was created to inspire and equip registered healthcare professionals with risk strategies to truly elevate the quality of life for our loved ones.

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Point of Care Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections

29 ratings at Coursera

Examine sexually transmitted infections and point of care testing: STI syndromes causing discharge and genital ulcers, HPV, diagnostic methods, and clinician, patient, and regulatory needs.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Foundations for Assisting in Home Care

683 ratings at Coursera

This course is intended as a self-study course for those interested in exploring a career as a Home Health Aide or Personal Care Aide.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

MassGeneralHospital

Coaching for the Caregiver: Improving Dementia Care Interactions

13 ratings

Improve dementia caregiving skills with hands-on techniques, communication strategies, and emotional connection methods for better care interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Global Quality Maternal and Newborn Care

261 ratings at Coursera

Learn to apply the Quality Maternal and Newborn Care Framework and the midwifery model of care across care delivery, organization, values, workforce, and policy in varied resource settings.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings

Design health information systems for resource-poor settings, applying process improvement theory, patient safety practices, organizational change, and monitoring and evaluation.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Re-Imagining Emergency Department Care for Substance Use Disorders

1 rating

Evidence-based recommendations for re-imagining emergency department care for patients facing substance use disorders.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Knowledge and Skills for Dementia Care: the SSLD Approach

132 ratings at Coursera

This course aims to inform learners about dementia and dementia care from an SSLD perspective, including, community care, in-home support, and long-term care.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Speech-Language Pathology for Ataxia Care - Evaluation and Strategies

11 ratings

Explore speech therapy for ataxia patients, including evaluations, exercises, and strategies to improve communication and swallowing with a Johns Hopkins expert.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Telehealth: Interprofessional Team-Based Care

Build interprofessional telehealth teams: design a team workflow, run example team-based virtual visits, and use members' strengths to overcome clinic space and access barriers.

• Coursera
• 2 hours 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

What is Palliative Care?

306 ratings at Coursera

Learn to recognize the many causes of suffering, communicate with patients and families using SNAP and active listening, examine your own values, and conduct whole person assessments.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Trauma Emergencies and Care

490 ratings at Coursera

Learn to assess and manage trauma patients: kinetics of injury, hemorrhagic shock, soft tissue injuries and burns, trauma by body system, and mass casualty incidents.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Rationing Care

Examines ethical frameworks for allocating scarce health care resources, including equality, prioritizing the worst off, maximizing benefits, and social usefulness.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Home-Based Child Care

180 ratings at Coursera

Learn to open and run a home-based childcare center: child development stages, practices that stimulate learning, health and safety measures, and childcare business fundamentals.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses