Caregiver Training - Online Courses

California law now requires that assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFE) provide 40 hours of initial training to caregivers and 20 hours of annual training thereafter.  In addition, Title 22 requires that a certain number of hours for the initial training and annual training be “hands on” and in specific subject matter areas. The topics include: personal care services, physical limitations of the elderly, psychosocial needs of elderly, dementia, emergency preparedness, medications, postural supports, cultural competency and LGBT, and resident rights. 

Online courses are one of 3 options CareerSmart offers to assisted living and RCFE employers in providing the required caregiver training.

The benefits of CareerSmart online training courses are:

• High quality training at the administrator level to ensure your staff know what’s allowable and prepare them to serve as back-up facility managers
• Fast and easy; available 24/7, from convenience of any location with internet access
• Certificates printable and downloadable immediately
• Interactive  and engaging; caregivers required to pass a short quiz at the end to ensure material was understood and retained; may re-take quiz as many times as needed to pass