Long Term Care Schools in Maine - ME

By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: August, 16 2010

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Long term care education is readily available throughout Maine that is designed to provide long term care professionals with accurate up-to-date information, guidelines, best practices and tools to enhance and promote high quality long term care services.

A variety of education programs range from an eight week nurse leadership institute, a 50-hour course for Personal Support Specialists (PSS), and a 40-hour course for Certified Residential Medication Aides (CRMA).

Also available are one-day classes such as “Psychosocial Assessments in the Age of Culture Change: Getting to Know Your Resident.” In classes such as this one, the shift in long term care from an institutionalized, medical model to an individualized social model of care is reviewed and the implications for health care workers is discussed. The contrast between disease-oriented and strength-based methods of assessing residents, including those with cognitive impairment, is also covered. Participants typically have an opportunity to practice using currently recommended assessment tools. Another popular class highlights ways the psychosocial assessment contributes to meeting the current quality of life guidelines.

For those in the administrative and management role of Maine’s long term care facilities, classes that address identifying, coaching and retaining top talent and stabilizing your workforce can prove valuable. Optimizing emotional intelligence (EI) is a term used to describe a person’s ability to identify, assess and manage their emotions and those of others. This is a focus of Maine’s contemporary long term care training initiatives.