Accelerated Personal Support Worker – Livingwaters College of Healthcare

Accelerated Personal Support Worker Training Program

The PSW accelerated programme at Livingwaters College of Healthcare will provide you the skills you need to start a fulfilling career providing assistance in long-term care facilities, supportive housing, home care, adult daycare, and palliative care.

This new PSWs offer aid, care, and support to clients who are elderly, chronically ill, or have physical or mental disability. There has never been a better moment to train as a PSW and help clients and their families with the various chores that they need assistance with.

About The Program

What You Will Learn In The Classroom

The goal of the PSW accelerated certificate programme is leverage the previous healthcare knowledge to teach you in an agile environment how to successfully care for and help clients and families so that they can lead fulfilling lives both in their local communities and in institutions.

As a participant in this programme, you will gain a variety of skills with an emphasis on value, sensitivity, and respect for the uniqueness of every client. Additionally, you will have the chance to take part in cross-disciplinary and/or inter-professional learning opportunities with other members of the care and service team, such as a licenced practical nurse, a registered nurse, or a social service worker. During times of incapacitation, recuperation, or family upheaval, you will play a crucial part in providing care and company for people and families. This program guaranty the best path to build a healthcare carrier in Canada taking into account the previous knowledge and experience.

Modules covered in-class include:

Healthcare and Applied Legislation
Personal Support Worker Foundation
Collaborative Relationships; Interprofessional Teams
Client Centered Strategies
Interpersonal Communications
Basic Assessment Techniques
Environmental Safety
Human Development and Support
Assisting with Medications
Household Management Tasks
Care and Service Plan Fundamentals
Elder Abuse
End-of-Life Care Strategies
Cognitive and Mental Health (includes GPA)
Clinical Placement (Community)
Clinical Placement (Facility)
Review and Final Exam

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What You Will Learn In The Labs

The PSW accelerated programme includes a fully hands-on lab where students practise typical PSW tasks such as household management, assisting with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene, administering medications, feeding, performing bedside and personal care, assisting with mobility, increasing the clients’ safety, and relying on the prior knowledge of healthcare areas that the students have.

PSW accelerated students will also complete externships in a business environment. The involves spending 155 hours in facilities and community settings while being closely supervised by a clinical instructor.

What You Will Do During Career Search

Upon completion of the program, graduates may find employment as a Personal Support Worker,
Personal Care Attendance, Live-in Caregiver or a Residential Support Worker and may find employment
in:

Health centres
Hospital
Long-term care facilities
Group homes
Private care facilities
Clients’ homes

Courses

Here is a list of some courses:

Healthcare and Applied Legislation

This module helps to know how to work within the personal support worker role in community, retirement homes, long-term care homes and/or hospital care settings in accordance with all applicable legislation and employer’s job description, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Personal Support Work Foundations

Students will learn about the responsibilities and areas of expertise of professionals who serve patients and families in private homes and long-term care facilities. The range of environments, working relationships, degree of supervision, requirement for adaptation to various environments, and time and stress management will all be discussed.

Collaborative Relationships; Interprofessional Teams

These modules aim to provide individuals across the healthcare professions with an introduction to the foundational elements of Interprofessional Practice, including conflict management, understanding, and incorporating patient perspectives, teams and teamwork, collaborative practice, and compassionate collaborative care.

Client Centered Strategies

Communication with patients and families about all aspects of their care, treatment or services is a critical part of client-centered care. When patients know what to expect, they are have more choices, they make better decisions, and they have more realistic expectations. You will come to know such client centered Strategies in this module

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Personal Support Worker program have obtained employment as:

Personal Support Worker (PSW)
Residential Support Worker
Personal Aides Live-in Caregiver
Personal Care Attendant
Child Care and Personal Support Worker

Admissions Process

Our mission as a personal support worker (PSW) college is to impact people with acquired skills and knowledge. To raise seasoned, compassionate and qualified healthcare workers.

We can’t do this without you.

We have designed a four step admissions process that ensures we admit the right students with the potential to become great graduates that serve their communities with excellence.

Connect with Us

The first step is to connect with our admissions team, we are here for you! We know you have questions the good news is we have answers. All you have to do to get started is fill out a form, call, text, email or even yell if you are close enough and we will commence your academic journey!

Confidential Interview

Now let’s get a little serious. When we meet, we will review your academic and career goals, talk about your options and determine your eligibility.
The key for LWCH is that you possess the right Attitude and Aptitude to be successful as a student and more importantly an employed Graduate of LWCH. The interview and evaluations will help us determine your eligibility. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?

Financial Assessment

Whether you have been fortunate enough to put money aside or you just can’t seem to imagine how you would pay for College, not to worry, we have a Team here to help. I know free would be preferred, but you know what they say, the best things in life are never free! During this appointment, we will determine your eligibility with one of our many different financial aid options.
Financial assistance may be available for those who qualify.

Enrollment Ready!

Last but certainly not the least, after all the meetings and deliberation, we did it!
You are excited, comfortable with your chosen field and it is now time to put pen to paper and enroll.
Your admissions representative will take you step by step through all the forms to ensure you are prepared for the journey ahead.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Livingwaters College of Healthcare family soon!