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Level 1
Course details
Career Readiness for the Personal Support Worker
CDEV1270
- Hours: 8
- Credits: 1
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Conestoga 101
CON0101
- Hours: 1
- Credits: 0
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Safety in the Workplace
OHS1320
- Hours: 14
- Credits: 1
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Supportive Care Theory and Practice
PSW1315
- Hours: 106
- Credits: 5
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Structure and Function of the Body for Person Centered Care
PSW1365
- Hours: 86
- Credits: 6
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Professional Practice
PSW1375
- Hours: 49
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Level 2
Course details
Field Placement (Personal Support Worker)
FPLT1685
- Hours: 100
- Credits: 5
- Pre-Requisites: PSW1315 OR PSW1317 AND PSW1365 OR PSW1367 AND PSW1375 OR PSW1377
- CoRequisites:
Field Placement II (Personal Support Worker)
FPLT1705
- Hours: 100
- Credits: 5
- Pre-Requisites: PSW1315 OR PSW1317 AND PSW1365 OR PSW1367 AND PSW1375 OR PSW1377
- CoRequisites:
Community and Palliative Care
PSW1695
- Hours: 68
- Credits: 5
- Pre-Requisites: PSW1315 OR PSW1317 AND PSW1365 OR PSW1367 AND PSW1375 OR PSW1377
- CoRequisites:
Supportive Care Theory and Practice II
PSW1725
- Hours: 60
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites: PSW1315 OR PSW1317 AND PSW1365 OR PSW1367 AND PSW1375 OR PSW1377
- CoRequisites:
Program outcomes
- Work within the personal support worker role in various care settings in accordance with all applicable legislation, standards, employer job descriptions, policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Practice professionally, and be accountable for one's own actions by applying problem-solving, self-awareness, time management and critical thinking to the provision of care as a personal support worker, whether working independently or as a member of a team.
- Practice as an engaged member of the interprofessional team to maintain collaborative working relationships for the provision of supportive, safe, responsive and competent client-centred care within care settings.
- Provide person-centred care, based on ethical principles, sensitive to diverse personal and family values, beliefs, cultural practices and other needs, which follows the plan of care.
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients and their families using effective communication skills to build a genuine, trusting, and respectful partnership, in accordance with professional boundaries, employer policies, confidentiality, and privacy legislation.
- Identify relevant client information within the roles and responsibilities of the personal support worker using observation, critical thinking, and effective communication skills to report and document findings.
- Create, promote and maintain a safe and comfortable environment for clients, their families, self and others by implementing current infection prevention and control measures, emergency and first aid procedures, and best practices in pandemic planning that are in keeping with the plan of care, all applicable legislation, and employer policies and procedures.
- Assist clients across the lifespan with activities of daily living by applying fundamental knowledge of growth and development, psychological concepts, common alterations in functioning, health promotion, disease prevention, rehabilitation and restorative care, and holistic health care.
- Assist the client with medication following the client's plan of care, and if a delegated act, under the supervision of a regulated health professional or done by exception under the most accountable person and in accordance with all applicable legislation and employer policies.
- Assist with household management services and instrumental activities of daily living in accordance with the plan of care and considering the preferences, comfort, safety and autonomy of clients, families and significant others.
- Assist and support clients who are caregivers, considering individual and family choices, professional boundaries and the direction of the plan of care.
- Identify, respond to and report potential, alleged, suspected or witnessed situations of abuse, and/or neglect, as required by all applicable legislation, including the retirement homes act, 2010 and the long-term care homes act, 2007, and as required within the employers' job description for the personal support workers.
- Assist with the provision of holistic health care and advocacy for culturally safe and spiritually sensitive palliative and end-of-life care to clients and to their families and significant others from diagnosis through to death and bereavement, and in accordance with clients’ choices and the plan of care.
- Provide client-centered and client-directed care to individuals experiencing various mental health illness and challenges, cognitive and intellectual impairments, and/or responsive behaviours by using supportive approaches and evidence-based practices to promote positive and safe behaviours in clients