Personal Support Worker

Core

• PSW Foundations

  This course lays the solid foundation for your career as a Personal Support Worker (PSW) in Canada. With a focus on Canada’s multicultural population, you will learn the essential role and responsibilities of a PSW, offering insight into the care that clients require.

  You will explore the Canadian healthcare system, relevant legislation, ethics, and interpersonal communication. By gaining these foundational skills, you will be equipped to provide compassionate client-centred care, improving quality of life for your patients.

• Safety and Mobility

  Gain essential knowledge and practical skills for ensuring the safety and enhancing the mobility of clients under your care. You will learn critical competencies required for effective support work, focusing on safe and respectful handling, moving, and positioning of clients.

  These skills will enable you to provide high-quality care and support, ensuring the physical well-being and comfort of those you assist.

• Body Systems

  Explore human anatomy and medical terminology, essential for excelling in the healthcare field. To excel in your field, this course emphasizes the importance of understanding the human body’s systems, structures, and the medical language that describes them. Explore each system’s anatomy and physiology, so you can support the physical well-being of your clients.

• Assisting the Dying Person

  Learn compassionate care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses. Through practical strategies and real-life scenarios, you will develop skills in palliative care, effective communication, and culturally safe practices.

  This course covers advanced care planning, symptom management in the final stages, and self-care to prevent compassion fatigue.

  Understand the importance of your role in the healthcare team and gain the confidence and competence needed to support the dying and their families with empathy and professionalism.

• Assisting the Family & Growth and Development

  Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to support individuals and families across various life stages.

  Explore principles of growth and development from infancy to aging adulthood and learn key developmental theories like Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Erikson’s developmental stages.

  Understand practical applications of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, preparing you to provide comprehensive care and support to vulnerable population groups.

• Assisting with Medications

  Acquire essential skills and knowledge for effectively assisting with medications within medical and care settings.

  Through the combination of theoretical and practical application, you will delve into the intricacies of oxygen therapy and medication management, grounded in Canadian healthcare practices, enhancing your ability to provide safe and effective care.

• Assisting with Personal Hygiene

  Learn to provide exceptional care focused on hygiene and infection control. Gain hands-on skills in assisting clients with bathing, showering, and personal grooming, ensuring their comfort, and dignity while adhering to safety protocols to prevent accidents or injuries.

  Students will address the essential practices of personal hygiene management, with an emphasis on the observation necessary to report changes or concerns in a client’s condition, ensuring their overall well-being.

• Household Management, Nutrition, and Hydration

  This course integrates theoretical knowledge with hands-on practical skills, preparing you to provide comprehensive care in household management, nutrition, and hydration while prioritizing client comfort, well-being, and safety. Explore the significance of comfort, pain management, and home management while gaining practical skills in cleaning, laundry, and handling clients’ money. Emphasis is placed on promoting a safe, comfortable, and hygienic environment for clients while supporting their nutritional needs and hydration.

• Care Planning, Restorative Care, and Working in the Community

  Learn the essential skills and knowledge required in care planning, restorative care, and community settings. You will learn to differentiate between rehabilitative and restorative care, understanding their respective goals and the holistic approach involved in rehabilitation. The role of therapy, training, and the family in the rehabilitation process will be explored alongside the benefits of both rehabilitation and restorative care.

• Cognitive and Mental Health Issues & Brain Injuries

  Develop an understanding of mental health and cognitive issues, including the impact of brain injuries. Learn responsive behaviours to provide support to individuals and families facing cognitive impairments such as disorientation, delirium, and dementia.

  This course blends theoretical knowledge with PSW practical training and skills to help you navigate the complexities of mental health disorders and their effects.

• Health Conditions

  Gain an understanding of a wide range of health conditions affecting various bodily systems.

  Learn to provide empathetic and effective care to individuals with complex health issues, including communicable diseases and conditions related to the integumentary, musculoskeletal, neurological, and endocrine systems.

  Learn to recognize common alterations in functioning health and about the management of cancers, fractures, amputations, and sensory impairments, as well as hearing and vision impairments, along with strategies to support clients with speech and language disorders.

• CPR, First Aid, WHMIS and FOIP

  This course provides students with hands-on training in first aid. Topics include medical/legal aspects, spinal injuries, environmental emergencies, bone and joint injuries, abdominal and chest injuries, burns and respiratory emergencies and much more.

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