Personal Care Attendant-Medical
Personal Care Attendant-Medical
The Personal Care Attendant – Medical program is a comprehensive 23-week training program designed to prepare students for entry-level employment in hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and community health care settings. This program provides students with the knowledge, practical skills, and professional competencies required to assist patients with daily living activities, support nursing staff, and contribute to the comfort, safety, and well-being of individuals requiring medical and personal care.
Students receive training in essential areas such as home care foundations, safety and mobility, body systems, abuse and neglect awareness, personal hygiene assistance, nutrition and hydration, restorative care, medication assistance, family support, end-of-life care, and common health issues. The program combines classroom instruction with hands-on clinical experience through a supervised Clinical Placement, allowing students to apply their learning in real health care environments.
INFORMATION:
Fredericton, NB Canada
in person
After completing this program students will be able to:
- Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients’ exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients’ status and document patient care on charts; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
- Administer, in emergency situations, first aid to injured or ill individuals within the scope of competencies
- Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
- Carry messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- May transport patients between care facilities.
- Health care aide
- Hospital attendant
- long term care aide
- nurse aide
- nursing attendant
- orderly
- patient care aide
- patient service associate
- personal care attendant – medical
- psychiatric aide
- resident care aide – medical
23 Weeks
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Students must meet one (1) of the following admission requirements:
- High school graduation or
- GED or equivalent or
- Mature student – Detailed resume outlining experience and qualifications must be submitted.
- HOME CARE FOUNDATIONS
- SAFETY AND MOBILITY
- BODY SYSTEMS
- ABUSE AND NEGLECT
- ASSISTING WITH PERSONAL HYGIENE
- HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, NUTRITION AND HYDRATION
- CARE PLANNING/RESTORATIVE CARE
- ASSISTING THE FAMILY
- ASSISTING THE DYING PERSON
- ASSISTING WITH MEDICATIONS
- HEALTH ISSUES
- CLINICAL PLACEMENT I
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Students must meet one (1) of the following admission requirements:
- High school graduation or
- GED or equivalent or
- Mature student – Detailed resume outlining experience and qualifications must be submitted.
- Administration
- Infants and Toddlers
- Autism Intervention
- Preschoolers
- Child Development
- Curriculum & Development
- Child Guidance
- School-Age Children
- Health & Safety
- Children with Exceptionalities
- Observation & Assessment
- Communication
- Professional Development
- Working with Families
- Adolescent Development
- ECE Comprehensive Project
- Work Placement 5-weeks
- Intro to Computers/Keyboarding/Word
- Food Safety
- CPR and First Aid Training
- Criminal Record Check
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TUITION & FEES:
Provincial and Federal student loans are available to qualifying students. For more information on applying for a student loan, New Brunswick residents should contact New Brunswick Student Financial Services at www.studentaid.gnb.ca. If you have not lived in New Brunswick for the past 12 months, or if you are currently living in another province, please contact your provincial Student Financial Aid office.
$96.95 (1% of tuition)
Personal Care Attendant-Medical
We are now accepting applications for international students.