EDUCATION PROGRAM DATE: ______________________

LESSON PLAN
Course Subject: Activities of Daily Living Time began: ___________________ Time End: ____________________

Facility Provider Number: ___________ Instructor Name/Title: ____________________________ Signature: ___________________________

Course Objectives / Methods of

Performance Standard Course Content Teaching Methods Evaluation
After instruction participants will Hygiene and grooming can be one of the Power Point Question & Answer
understand Activities of daily living most challenging areas to work when Presentation:
assisting our resident’s, yet one of the
skills. most critical to social integration.
Quiz
Appropriate bathing, shaving, dressing, Hand Out:
and feminine hygiene are a foundation
that must be completed daily for our Lecture
residents. Good hygiene and grooming
skills are necessary for socialization,
employment, and accessing community
resources.

Participants will understand, Sometimes, particularly with residents, a

teaching strategies. person has lost capacity to perform those
appropriate skills. Shaping is often used
when teaching new skills. This involves
providing rewards for successive
approximations of the skill. Many people
are not able to learn the whole skill at one
time, and will benefit from learning the
"baby steps" one at a time. Two
commonly used strategies are forward
chaining and backward chaining. Both
involve breaking the activity down into
small, achievable steps.

Forward chaining involves teaching the

skill starting with the first step. So, the first
time, you teach or assist the resident and
then you perform the rest. When your
resident is able to do that well, teach him
or her to perform the first two steps, and
you perform the rest. Residents that our
dependent and/or on comfort care need
your undivided attention and care with all
Oral, Peri Care, Catheter Care and
grooming.
 EDUCATION PROGRAM DATE: ______________________
LESSON PLAN
Course Subject: Activities of Daily Living Time began: ___________________ Time End: ____________________

Facility Provider Number: ___________ Instructor Name/Title: ____________________________ Signature: ___________________________

Participants will understand,
It is important that hygiene and grooming
Checklists and Visual Cues. tasks are being performed daily and prn
to meet the needs of our residents, based
on their illnesses and capability to assist..
Often, a person knows how to do them,
but is not motivated or their mental and/or
physical capabilities is limited.
Sometimes, the person does not have the
appropriate supplies. Sometimes, a
person may be able to perform each
individual step, but has difficulty putting
them all together.
Checklists can help you as the care giver
to remember what needs to be done, and
how to put the steps together. A morning,
afternoon and evening routine checklist is
commonly used, and sometimes a
nighttime routine checklist as well. If you
put the checklist in a plastic sleeve or
laminate it, it can be re-used with a
washable or dry-erase marker.

A morning, pm and evening care; routine

checklist lists all the activities that need to
be done, For example,
 eat breakfast, lunch, dinner
 getting dressed, grooming,
shaving,
 brush teeth, oral care frequently
based on the resident’s condition
may require q 1 hr
 wash face
 brush hair
 bed rest Q 2 hour turning
schedule
 Peri-Care
 Catheter Care
 Dressing
 Assisting with meals
 Reporting any changes to Charge
 EDUCATION PROGRAM DATE: ______________________
LESSON PLAN
Course Subject: Activities of Daily Living Time began: ___________________ Time End: ____________________

Facility Provider Number: ___________ Instructor Name/Title: ____________________________ Signature: ___________________________

Nurse
 Skin observations