In-service Education

Staff In-Service Education

Consistent and simple training is hard to find. With AAPACN’s expert-developed in-service training tools, you have user-friendly training documents to supplement your staff’s knowledge and get your team on the same page, all in one convenient location. Boost your staff development program with these tools today.

In-Service Education for Nurses or Nursing Assistants

• Motivating CNAs – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to understand the definition of motivation and recognize leadership behaviors that facilitate intrinsic motivation. Download now.
• Nurse-Driven Antibiotic Stewardship – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to define antibiotic stewardship and recognize nurse-driven efforts that support antibiotic stewardship, including nursing assessment and infection-specific interventions. Download now.
• Communicating With Residents With Dementia – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe the ways that dementia can affect communication and identify different measures that can assist in effectively communicating with residents who have dementia. Download now.
• AHRQ Resource Helps Nursing Home Staff Fit Respirators (12/21)
  Respirators, including N95s and elastomeric respirators, help protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses. Making sure these respirators fit the face properly is essential to maximizing their effectiveness. A new AHRQ guide defines respirator fit …
• Playing the Defensive Line Against Pressure Injuries – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn how to define a pressure injury and recognize ways to protect the skin to prevent pressure injuries. Download now.
• Back Safety – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to understand the risk factors for staff injury, identify devices that aid in transfer, and implement safe techniques for lifting and moving residents. Download now.
• The Many Forms of Resident Abuse and Neglect – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will identify types of abuse, define neglect, demonstrate what steps to take if abuse is observed, and discuss how to prevent abuse. Download now.
• Pressure Injuries: Assessing for Risk Factors and Implementing Interventions – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to define pressure injury, shear, and friction and complete a risk assessment and identify interventions that address the risk factors for pressure injuries. Download now.
• Post-Fall Assessments – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will identify the necessary components of the nurse’s initial post-fall assessment, name potential complications and injuries that can occur from a fall, and identify nursing interventions applicable to stabilize a resident during the initial …
• The Fragile Bones of Osteoporosis – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn the definition of osteoporosis, how to identify risks for osteoporosis, and select nursing interventions to care for a person with osteoporosis. Download now.
• Respecting Cultural Diversity – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  This learning activity should enable the participate to identify major areas of care that culture affects and at least three actions that can be taken to show respect for residents’ diversity. Download now.
• Providing Excellent Customer Service – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  This learning activity should enable the participate to identify who the customer is, demonstrate good customer service, and discuss the steps of service recovery. Download now.
• Basics of Care for the Resident Who Has Urinary Incontinence – Nursing Assistant In-Service Education
  Incontinence is a common issue for many of our residents. In fact, almost 50% of residents in a nursing home present with some type of incontinence. This education will discuss urinary incontinence along with the …
• Appropriate Use of Personal Protective Equipment – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to understand how to select appropriate PPE to wear, uses for each PPE, and how to apply knowledge to don and doff PPE correctly. Download now.
• Nurse Assessment: Acute Changes in Condition – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe normal age-related changes, differentiate chronic versus acute conditions, recognize symptoms and changes in vital signs, physical function, and body condition that could indicate acute conditions, and apply the assessment phase …
• Death and Dying Education Bundle for Nurses – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to recognize symptoms of imminent death and select appropriate nursing interventions that meet the physiological needs of a resident who is dying. Download now.
• Combatting Failure to Thrive in Adults – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to understand what failure to thrive is, recognize signs of failure to thrive, and apply knowledge to combat failure to thrive. Download now.
• Flu Trivia – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to explain the dangers of the flu virus for residents and how it’s transmitted, understand your role in daily surveillance for flu symptoms, and understand what action to take to prevent an …
• Staying Alert for Acute Conditions – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe reasons nursing home residents are at risk for acute conditions, list symptoms and changes in vital signs, physical function, mental function, and body condition that could indicate acute conditions, identify …
• Empowering Employees – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to define empowerment, list four factors contributing to powerlessness, describe eight sources of power, and discuss measures to foster empowerment. Download now.
• Protecting Against C-diff Infection – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe how C-diff infections develop and spread, identify the primary symptom of C-diff, and list at least four points to keep in mind when caring for residents with C-diff. Download now.
• Foot Health and Care – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to list three factors that contribute to foot problems, describe a corn, callus, plantar wart, plantar fasciitis, bunion, and hammer toe, and discuss good foot care practice. Download now.
• The Skin: Facts, Risks, and Care – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify major structures of the skin, list at least four functions of the skin, describe at least three observations that help to assess skin, and describe at least four care measures …
• Self-Care for Peak Performance – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to discuss why self-care is important for staff who work in post-acute care, describe three attributes for caring staff, describe recommended servings from each of the major food groups, list at least …
• The Losses Families Grieve – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe at least three reasons for families’ grief, list at least ten signs of grief, and discuss measures to help grieving families. Download now.
• Pain Control Beyond Drugs – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will think about the last time they had pain and describe how it affected them, identify residents with chronic pain and review the pain-control plan for these residents. Describe nonpharmacologic measures that can be …
• Responding to Residents’ Sexually Inappropriate Behavior – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify six potential reasons for residents to display sexually inappropriate behavior and describe various approaches to handling inappropriate sexual behavior. Download now.
• Constructive Feedback – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to define feedback, identify at least six factors that affect the ability to offer feedback, outline considerations in offering feedback, and identify four factors that can demonstrate openness to feedback. Download now.
• Residents’ Right to Privacy – Nursing In-service Education
  This learning activity should enable you to list three ways in which a resident’s privacy must be respected and know the actions they would take if they felt that a resident was being abused during …
• Signs of Pain in Residents with Dementia – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify residents with dementia with whom they’ve worked and discuss the ways these residents indicate pain and other symptoms, discuss how residents’ lives are impacted when they have headaches or other …
• End of Life Care: A Holistic Approach – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to list at least two reasons why healthcare workers have difficulty facing residents’ deaths, describe what is meant by holistic palliative care, describe at least three physical needs of residents near the …
• Basics of Emergency Care for the Nursing Assistant – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to state at least three reasons why nursing facility residents are at high risk for emergencies, describe the symptoms and basic emergency measures for: choking, hemorrhage, fainting, chest pain, and seizures, and …
• Caring for Residents Who Wander – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify at least two residents who wander and discuss the factors that could cause their wandering, guide learners in developing a plan to reduce these residents’ wandering based on their unique …
• Dining Safety – Nursing Assistant In-service Education
  Participants will learn to list three reasons that dining is an important activity, describe at least three factors that make residents high risk for aspiration, describe first aid measures for choking and burns, and discuss …
• Understanding Dementia – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify factors associated with the development of dementia, describe the progression of dementia symptoms, list causes of Alzheimer’s disease, differentiate between dementia and delirium, and discuss the nursing care of residents …
• Motivating Staff – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to define motivation, describe the way Maslow, Herzberg, and McGregor each described motivation, give at least three examples of intrinsic motivators, give at least three examples of extrinsic motivators, and describe at …
• Ethical Decision Making – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to identify factors that give rise to ethical dilemmas in nursing facilities, discuss philosophic ideas about what constitutes right and wrong, describe ethical principles guiding clinical practice, and identify measures that assist …
• Common Infections in Nursing Facilities – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to describe special risks of nursing facility residents in regard to urinary tract infections, pneumonia, influenza, scabies, tuberculosis, vaginitis, herpes zoster, HIV, AIDS, antibiotic-resistant infections, describe the atypical ways that infections can …
• Integrative Approaches for Pain Management – Nursing In-service Education
  Comfort is a relative term that can mean different things to different individuals. To some, it can mean living a luxurious life with no financial woes, while to others comfort can be perceived as enough …
• Deconditioning – Nursing In-service Education
  For anyone, inactivity can have multiple negative effects, including loss of muscle tone, weight gain, reduced cardiovascular endurance, poorer digestive function, sleep problems, and low mood. For older adults, especially those with health conditions, the …
• Person-Centered Care Planning – Nursing In-service Education
  Participants will learn to list at least six core features of a well-written care plan, describe what is meant by person-centered care, list seven factors that promote meaningful relationships with residents, list at least eight …