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Offered in Cooperation
with Providence Medical Center
and Rogue Community College
A 21-hour course for family members serving as caregivers,
or for those who want to work as a paid caregiver. Instructors are trained
nurses and experienced caregivers.
This is the most comprehensive training of its type
in southern Oregon.
Course includes:
- How to keep yourself well
- Care for the bed-bound patient
- Preventing burnout
- Fall-proofing your home
- Vital signs
- Managing medication
- Wheelchair and walker safety
- How to give a bed bath
- Oxygen safety
- Preventing bedsores
- Save your back - safe transfers
- After-hospital planning
- Dealing with patient and caregiver stress
- Hiring in-home help
- And much more
Tuition: $116.00 - Includes textbook.
(Financial aid possible if you're caring for a family member.)
For further information and class schedules, please call: Providence Senior Services
541-732-5466 |