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Personal Support Specialist (PSS)


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A Personal Support Specialist (PSS) provides essential care and support to individuals who may have difficulty managing daily activities due to age, illness, or disability. They assist with personal hygiene, medication reminders, meal preparation, and companionship. PSS professionals are crucial in enhancing the quality of life for their clients, enabling them to live as independently as possible while ensuring their safety and well-being. Training for a PSS role typically includes understanding human anatomy, basic caregiving skills, and communication techniques, as well as compassion and empathy in providing care.

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Content
  • Module 1 - Entering the Health Care Field
  • Module 1 Description
  • Understanding the PSS Role
  • ADL's
  • The Healthcare Team
  • Describe types of Healthcare settings in Maine 
  • Understand Patient Centered Care 
  • Understand Patient Centered Care
  • Understand Patient Centered Care
  • Identify the role of DHHS and oversight processes
  • State Survey Agency
  • Federal and State Services under DHHS
  • Oversite Process 
  • Types of Guardianship
  • Osha in Healthcare
  • Osha Protection in the healthcare Setting
  • Video unit
  • Regulation of the Healthcare System
  • Additional state Agencies Supporting the Regulation
  • Module 1 Quiz
  • Module 2
  • Module 2: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health
  • Module 2: Explain Patient's and Resident's Rights
  • Module 2: Examples of Patient Rights
  • Module 2: Examples of Residents Rights
  • Module 2: Agencies that Protect Rights
  • Module 2: Describe Advance Directives 
  • Module 2: Advance Directive continued
  • Module 2: Specify how Patient and Residents Rights can be Violated
  • Video unit-HIPAA Compliance
  • Module 2: Define Confidentiality including HIPPA
  • Module 2: Confidentiality
  • Video unit
  • Module 2: Discuss the consequences of improper use of social media
  • Module 2: List and Describe forms of Abuse
  • Module 2: What is Neglect?
  • Module 2: What is Exploitation?
  • Module 2: Describe the risk factors and potential perpetrators of abuse
  • Module 2: Explain Elder Abuse
  • Module 2: Mandatory Reporting
  • Video unit
  • Hold up!
  • Module 2: Explain Boundaries
  • Module 2: Specify guidelines for behavior relating to ethics
  • Module 2: Explain your responsibilities and rights
  • Module 2: Define Documentation
  • Video unit
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
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