Pandemic Preparedness for Healthcare Workers
Course Titles and Descriptions
Acute Respiratory Illness Pandemic Training for Healthcare Workers
| Today, we’re going to talk about how to prepare for acute respiratory illness pandemics. For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But as you’ve seen in the news, respiratory disease pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses or influenza, are something else. They often involve new strains of viruses to which people have developed no immunity. These kinds of viruses can spread quickly and widely, and they can pose a major global health threat. That’s why you need to know about acute respiratory illness pandemics and how to prepare for them. |
Acute Respiratory Illness Pandemic Training for Healthcare Workers (Spanish)
| For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But as you’ve seen in the news, respiratory disease pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses or influenza, are something else. They often involve new strains of viruses to which people have developed no immunity. These kinds of viruses can spread quickly and widely, and they can pose a major global health threat. That’s why you need to know about acute respiratory illness pandemics and how to prepare for them. The main objective of this course is to make you aware of the risks of pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep you, your family, and your patients safe. |
Balancing Work and Home
This course explores the challenges many workers face in balancing work and home responsibilities. It introduces the concept of work/life integration, which focuses on blending personal and professional responsibilities rather than rigidly separating them. The course also provides practical tips for managing home tasks, work responsibilities, and the use of technology to reduce stress and maximize productivity. It also emphasizes that balancing these aspects requires both personal efforts and clear communication with employers.
Communicating Effectively in Emergencies: What Supervisors Need to Know
Unfortunately, there have been many situations where it has been shown that when an emergency occurred at the workplace employees didn’t get the information they needed to take appropriate action to protect their safety. Important information is often either not communicated effectively or not at all. As a supervisor, your job includes communicating emergency information to your employees. How effectively you communicate could make a big difference to the safety of your employees. This course is designed to help you learn how to communicate effectively in emergencies—whether they occur in the workplace or, like weather emergencies, they take place outside but affect the workplace and employees’ ability to get to work.
Communication Skills for Employees
This training session is going to talk about the skills required for effective communication on the job. Communication is the process by which people create and share information, and ideas with one another in order to reach mutual understanding and get work done. Effective communication in the workplace is therefore the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships and productive, successful performance.
Home Safety
Accidents at home are the leading cause of injury-involved accidents. These accidents occur because there are no required rules to follow in the home, unlike the OSHA regulations we follow in the workplace. Many at-home injuries can be prevented if appropriate preventive measures are taken to eliminate or minimize hazards. This session is intended for all employees.
Keeping Yourself and Your Family Healthy
This presentation will cover how important it is that families be concerned about health. Preventive care, nutrition, exercise, and other factors play important roles. And especially for children, good health is essential—for them, now is the time when growth happens, some diseases may begin, and health habits are set for life.
Telecommuting and Other Alternative Work Arrangements for Employees
As the workforce becomes more diversified and employers struggle to cope with the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace, these arrangements are becoming more popular and more common.
The main objective of this course is to provide you with the information you need to successfully perform while telecommuting and in other alternative work arrangements, and to make the most of what they have to offer you and the organization.
Telecommuting and Other Alternative Work Arrangements for Supervisors
As the workforce becomes more diversified and employers struggle to cope with the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace, these arrangements are becoming more popular and more common.
The main objective of this course is to provide you with the information you need to successfully supervise telecommuters and other alternative work arrangements and to make the most of what they have to offer you, your employees, and the organization.
