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The Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development is an online educational and performance management tool to help administrators train and communicate with their employees.
This issue of the Admin Corner focuses on “sun setting” certain courses. “Sun setting” simply means that a course that you may be currently assigning to your learners will be permanently removed from the site. All lessons within the course will be removed from any modules that the Learning Administrator has created.
The DirectCourse/College of Direct Support (CDS) online course, Participant-Directed: Hiring Great Direct Support Professionals, is one in a series of lessons designed at empowering individuals with disabilities, mental illness, elders, and the family and friends who support them, to be fully engaged in their relationships with their direct support professionals (DSPs.) Launched this past March, the course covers the full spectrum, from hiring and dismissing DSPs, to supervising and training.
No one wants to be alone in the world, and yet helping foster healthy relationships for people with disabilities is something that is often overlooked.
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Watch an on-demand presentation (no pre-registration required) on DirectCourse/College of Direct Support’s newest course, Universal Precautions. Annie Johnson Sirek will present how the new courses teaches direct support professionals about universal precautions and infection control, OSHA blood borne pathogens requirements, preventing and responding to exposure incidents, and much more.
Click here to watch the on-demand web seminar.
The Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development is an online educational and performance management tool to help administrators train and communicate with their employees.
