PSW (Personal Support Worker) Diploma & National Association of Career College (NACC) License

This diploma program enables students to work in a variety of care settings ranging from hospitals to long term care facilities and in community.

- Hospital

- Nursing Home

- Retirement Home

- Assisted living Home

- Rehab Centers

- Home Care

- Work for the private clients

- Palliative Care

- Taking care of new born baby and mother

As a professional job in nursing field, PSW is experiencing an unprecedented growth in career opportunities. Jobs opportunities for nursing in Toronto area are expected to grow by almost 40% by 2011.

Victoria College offers a standardized NACC PSW curriculum. Our strengths are:

- College diploma plus NACC PSW license in 6 months

- Free CPR and First Aid training

- Guaranteed clinical placements in both nursing home and retirement home

- Experienced instructors and clinical preceptors

- Fully equipped lab

- Full service in job hunting

- High employment rate of graduate students

- Competitive tuition fee

- Multicultural study environment that offers an extremely rich environment for peer learning

Courses List:

1. Role of PSW

2. Individuality of the Person

3. Interpersonal Skills

4. Assisting a Person with Mobility

5. Safety

6. Household Management and Meal Preparation

7. Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health Issues

8. Abuse

9. Optimal Support and Care Planning

10. Assisting the Family

11. Assisting to Manage Ongoing Conditions

12. Personal Hygiene

13. Assisting with Medications

14. Assisting with a Person Who is Dying

 

 

 

Made in Ontario: Personal Support Worker (PSW)

 

By Norman

 

Personal Support Worker (PSW) is a profession/ occupation created and well defined in Ontario. Over the past 10 years, it has truly become one of the fast growing employment fields in the province. The designation of PSW title and the formalization of PSW training programs have also gained national recognition at the same time. As aging population is projected to double in the next 2 decades, the need for Personal Support Workers undoubtedly will continue to rise and the interest for people trying to get into the field certainly will increase too.

 

Who is a Personal Support worker (PSW) anyway?

 

In short, a Personal Support worker (PSW) is an individual who has been trained for employment in the Health Care field and who possesses the knowledge, skills, and a positive attitude required to assist clients with personal or household needs.

 

What is PSW training program?

 

Personal Support Worker (PSW) training program is a provincial government approved training program. It follows a set of rules and regulations and it delivers a curriculum rich in practical information which fully prepares students to work as Personal Support Workers. All Personal Support Worker training programs contain two components: theory and clinical placement (practicum). The entire training program normally takes about 6-12 months to complete depending on programs being offered – full time or part-time.

 

What does a Personal Support Worker (PSW) do?

 

In general, a Personal Support Worker helps her/ his client with tasks of daily living sometimes also including social and recreational activities. Most times the workplace dictates the duties a PSW performs. For instance, in a nursing home, personal care (such as personal hygiene, dressing, undressing, transfers, positioning etc.) may be the focus of duties for the PSWs there. While in a community setting, a combination of tasks (personal care plus homemaking such as laundry, dusting, grocery shopping, light meal preparation etc.) may become the major responsibilities of PSWs working at client’s home.

 

Where does Personal Support Worker work?

 

Choices are plenty for PSW to find work nowadays. There are public and private employers hiring PSWs all the time across the province. Some new PSW graduates prefer employment at institutions such as nursing homes, retirement homes, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, Assisted Living Supportive Housing programs, Group homes, and hospices. While others, choose work for community agencies (more than 100 in the GTA alone) and self-employment.

 

Why should I take PSW training now?

 

If you have been thinking about a career in PSW field, now is really the time to make the move. Across Ontario, a reform to change the way health care being delivered has taken place. As a result, 14 LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) were formed to lead the transformation that promises efficiency and accountability. More encouragingly, the Aging at Home strategy adds a cash infusion into the home care area like never before that has and will continue to create more PSW jobs in the province.

 

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