Free Caregiver Training Series
If you are, or anticipate, caring for your spouse, a parent or other older adult, this is an opportunity to learn essential nursing skills that will ensure their safety and well-being—and yours.
This comprehensive 16-hour series provides hands-on training that includes falls prevention, lifting, positioning, skin care, medication safety, toileting, dressing, bathing and shower safety, dealing with incontinence, and effective communication with the health care team.
Jean Mueller, a registered nurse with Catholic Charities and a member of the Dane County Caregiver Alliance, teaches the workshops and has more than 30 years of caregiving experience both professionally and personally. She understands the unique challenges of providing care for family members and can offer practical solutions to many of issues caregivers face.
Participants in each four-hour workshop receive a free gait belt, bed pad, refreshments and will be entered into a drawing for gift certificates.
Curriculum
Week 1
Communication:This session deals with communicating with your health care team- doctors, nurses and therapists. You will learn effective methods of clear communication with each of these disciplines. We will also discuss communicating with the person you are caring for as well as family communication.
Week 2
Safety: Making your home a safer place is an important step in providing good care. We discuss everything from fire safety to minimizing falls to medication safety and personal safety including infection control.
Week 3
The Heavy Work: This session deals with the basics of caregiving. Participants will learn moving, lifting, and transferring techniques as well as skin care and dressing and undressing someone. We will practice how to put on and remove TED stockings.
Week 4
Caring for You: This session is dedicated to caregiver stress and the importance of caring for yourself. Participants will learn simple self care techniques they can incorporate into their day that really make a difference in overall well being.
Schedule and Location
April-May
Saturdays: April 10, 17, 24 and May 1
9am - 1pm
Attic Angel Retirement Community
The session will be held in the Bryant Room at Attic Angel Place, which is located on Attic Angel Circle, which is a left turn just past Junction Road, on Old Sauk Road. Participants must sign in with the receptionist.
Click here to register online. Please contact Diane Walder at (608)442-7248 or diane.walder@att.net for possible alternative schedule dates.
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Free Caregiver Training Series
If you are, or anticipate, caring for your spouse, a parent or other older adult, this is an opportunity to learn essential nursing skills that will ensure their safety and well-being—and yours.
This comprehensive 16-hour series provides hands-on training that includes falls prevention, lifting, positioning, skin care, medication safety, toileting, dressing, bathing and shower safety, dealing with incontinence, and effective communication with the health care team.
Jean Mueller, a registered nurse with Catholic Charities and a member of the Dane County Caregiver Alliance, teaches the workshops and has more than 30 years of caregiving experience both professionally and personally. She understands the unique challenges of providing care for family members and can offer practical solutions to many of issues caregivers face.
Participants in each four-hour workshop receive a free gait belt, bed pad, refreshments and will be entered into a drawing for gift certificates.
Curriculum
Week 1
Communication:This session deals with communicating with your health care team- doctors, nurses and therapists. You will learn effective methods of clear communication with each of these disciplines. We will also discuss communicating with the person you are caring for as well as family communication.
Week 2
Safety: Making your home a safer place is an important step in providing good care. We discuss everything from fire safety to minimizing falls to medication safety and personal safety including infection control.
Week 3
The Heavy Work: This session deals with the basics of caregiving. Participants will learn moving, lifting, and transferring techniques as well as skin care and dressing and undressing someone. We will practice how to put on and remove TED stockings.
Week 4
Caring for You: This session is dedicated to caregiver stress and the importance of caring for yourself. Participants will learn simple self care techniques they can incorporate into their day that really make a difference in overall well being.
Schedule and Location
April-May
Saturdays: April 10, 17, 24 and May 1
9am - 1pm
Attic Angel Retirement Community
The session will be held in the Bryant Room at Attic Angel Place, which is located on Attic Angel Circle, which is a left turn just past Junction Road, on Old Sauk Road. Participants must sign in with the receptionist.
Click here to register online. Please contact Diane Walder at (608)442-7248 or diane.walder@att.net for possible alternative schedule dates.
Return to Aging Services Main Page