Hospital Companion

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Hospital Companion Training for Your Employees

Penn Foster’s online Hospital Companion Training Program will prepare workers to perform the day-to-day patient care tasks aligned with activities of daily living (ADLs), including changing, dressing, and helping patients bathe and toilet. Additionally, the program will teach learners how to establish and maintain a clean and sanitary environment for the patient and ensure that established safety and infection control practices are observed.

Prepares learners for roles such as hospital companion, companion care private duty sitter, companion care assistant, patient companion, and patient safety companion.
Includes wraparound learner support and access to instructors and coaches, ensuring your workers successfully progress through the training and excel on-the-job.

woman by a patient’s bedside in a hospital.

What Your Learners Will Study

Activities of daily living (ADLs) including cleaning and bathing patients, repositioning and transferring patients between beds and wheelchairs, and monitoring and reporting on patients’ health concerns and status.
To assist with patient lift equipment, fall precautions, and patient safety policies.
To identify changes in patient condition, including physical and behavioral changes, and report them to the appropriate patient care team member.
To establish and maintain a clean and sanitary environment for the patient.

Hospital Companion Training Curriculum

Average completion time: 1-3 mo

Through the online Hospital Companion Training curriculum, workers will develop the skills essential to working one-on-one with patients and the larger patient care team in order to provide excellent quality of care. Online courses cover topics such as:

Communication and Customer Service
Patient confidentiality and HIPAA
Use of adaptive equipment to support Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

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