Personal Support Workers are exceptional individuals who have answered their calling to work in this specialized area of the Health Care Field. They are dedicated people who have committed their life caring for the sick, people with mental illness or physical disabilities, accident victims, senior citizens unable to care for themselves and those approaching the end of life.
Personal Support Workers through their training acquire interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to provide social, psychological and physical assistance to their patients at home or in a health care facility.
In addition to the above, the training program provides a whole range of skills to Students that upon graduation, will enable them to perform their duties that would include :
- Awareness of keeping the patient safe
- Assist patient with mobility and medication
- Household management and meal preparation
- Assist a person with personal hygiene
- Able to recognize and report patient abuse
- How to handle a person with cognitive impairment and mental Health issues
- Treatment of the individual as a person
- How to communicate with Family of the patient
- Providing optimal care and Planning
- Safety, abuse and activities of daily living
- Assistance with support devices, diagnostic and treatment procedures.
- Assisting a person to manage ongoing conditions
- Assisting a person who is dying and their family.
- How to administer medication and check vital signs.
