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8 hours

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The Challenges of Modern Caregiving
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  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 3 of 3 in the Caring for Others Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level No prior background knowledge is required.
  • Approx. 8 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: English
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  • Care workers are occasionally lauded as ?heroes? of society, but the special challenges they face are not fully understood. This course examines how the organization of care has changed in modern times and the dilemmas those developments pose to helping professionals. Among the questions it engages are: How does the meaning of care change when it is performed outside the family? Do bureaucratic systems discourage individuals from taking responsibility for others? suffering? How do care professionals manage their emotions and those of their clients? Can and should care work be rehumanized? In addition to helping learners develop informed responses to these pressing issues, The Challenges of Modern Caregiving will give students the chance to learn a method that identifies gaps in existing care systems.
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Curriculum

How has the organization of care changed in modern times?

Introduction to the Challenges of Modern Caregiving

Care Implications Part I: The Four Forces of Modernity

Care Implications Part II: Implications of Changes for Care

Nursing Continuing Professional Development Contact Hours

Graduate Teacher Education Process

Caring for Others Facebook Group

?How Immigrant Medical Professionals Are Helping To Fight The Coronavirus?

Care Implications

Is there a care deficit?

Is there a care deficit? Part I: Evidence of More Care

Is there a care deficit? Part II: Evidence of Less Care

Is there a care deficit? Part III: Different Approaches to Providing Care in Modern Society

?Care Deficit.?

Levels of Care

How does the meaning of care change when it is performed outside the family?

Care Outside the Family Part I: What Volunteering Can Teach Us About Paid Care

Care Outside the Family Part II: How Professional Caregivers Engage in Emotional Detachment

Care Outside the Family Part III: The Emotional Costs of Professionalization

Care Outside the Family Part IV: Caregivers and Professionalism

?Letting Go: The First Day of School?

Care Outside the Family

How do care workers manage their emotions and those of their clients?

Care and Emotions Part I: Managing Emotions

Care and Emotions Part II: Emotional Labor

Care and Emotions Part III: How the Negative Consequences of Emotional Management Can be Minimized

?The Emotional Labour of Nursing 1: Exploring the Concept"

Care and Emotions

Choose Your Controversy

Re-humanized Care Work Part I: The Classical Theorists on Emotions in the Workplace

Re-humanized Care Work Part II: Attempts to Re-humanize Care Work

Re-humanized Care Work Part III: Scenarios

Bureaucratic Systems Part I: The Tendency to Trust and Obey Bureaucracies

Bureaucratic Systems Part II: The Example of Parenting

Bureaucratic Systems Part III: Vignettes

"Stories Are The Currency of Medicine"

?The U.S. Government Is Failing To Uphold Its Duty To Protect Citizens During Coronavirus Pandemic?

Re-humanized Care Work

Bureaucratic Systems

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