Onboarding is a critical time period in an employee’s work experience, and employees who receive a comprehensive, quality educational program will be more equipped for success. By leveraging MedBridge resources and tools, you can better prepare your staff for the unique demands of hospice care that will support a long-tenure and successful career at your organization.
Below you will find a recommended onboarding curriculum for new hospice aide hires. MedBridge recommends you build one Knowledge Track with all the information below, creating separate sections for each area. This can then be assigned to all hospice aides at your organization automatically.
This track can be customized to fit your needs, including adding or removing MedBridge courses or your agency's custom content.
For a list of recommended compliance courses required for new hires visit this article. For more information about building Knowledge Tracks, check out Getting Started With the MedBridge LMS.
Section 1: Hospice Aide Onboarding Skills
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| Vital Signs: Respiratory Rate | 3 + text |
| Vital Signs: Pulses | 2 + text |
| Vital Signs: Temperature | 7 + text |
| Aide Skills: Tub Bath and Shampooing | 7 |
| Aide Skills: Sponge Bath and Shampooing | 6 |
| Aide Skills: Shower and Shampooing | 8 |
| Aide Skills: Oral Hygiene | 7 |
| Aide Skills: Toileting | 6 |
| Aide Skills: Nutrition | 8 |
| Aide Skills: Communication | 10 |
| Aide Skills: Changes in Skin | 14 |
| Aide Skills: Ambulation | 14 |
| Aide Skills: Transfers | 7 |
| Aide Skills: Bed Mobility | 15 |
| Aide Skills: Range of Motion | 15 |
| Total Section Time | 2.5 hours |
In addition to Aide Onboarding Skills we have a number of Aide in-service courses that can be assigned throughout the year.
Section 2: Aide In-Service Courses
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| HHA: Pain Management Care | 30 |
| HHA: Fall Safety for the Home Care Patient | 30 |
| HHA: Care and Management of a Urinary Device | 30 |
| HHA: ADL Modifications for Declining Patients | 30 |
| HHA: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | 30 |
| HHA: Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation | 30 |
| HHA: Diabetes Mellitus Care | 30 |
| HHA: Heart Failure Care | 30 |
| HHA: Pressure Injuries | 30 |
| HHA: Wound Care | 30 |
| HHA: Caring for a Patient with Dementia | 30 |
| HHA: Arthritis Care | 30 |
| HHA: Chronic Kidney Failure Care | 30 |
| HHA: Ostomy Care | 30 |
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HHA: Post-Operative Care |
30 |
| Total Section Time | 7.5 hours |
For a list of recommended compliance courses required for new hires visit this article.
The following courses may also be beneficial to your Aides and can be added to your Knowledge Tracks as needed.
- OSHA: Worker Safety in Home Health and Hospice
- Safe Patient Handling & Safe Lifting Equipment
- Nutrition: The Basics
- Restraint Reduction in Hospice Facilities
- Pain and Symptom Management in Hospice
- Pain and Symptom Management in Hospice
- Work-Related Grief, Loss, and Change for Hospice Workers
- Bereavement Care and Family Dynamics in Hospice
- Communication with Families in Hospice Care
- Dementia Care Basics Series
- Teepa Snow Dementia Care Series
Content recommendations are intended to help give you additional resources for your ongoing learning and patient care. We will be adding content recommendations for additional settings and solutions over time. To provide feedback on this offering or request additional content recommendations, please visit this link.