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Home Care/Special Care
Aide Program
Entrance Requirements
• Grade 10 or GED 12
Standardization of Curriculum
In Province
• SIAST has standard curriculum
• Brokers the program through Regional
Colleges or Health Regions
• SIAST does all the Quality Assurance to
ensure consistent standards are
maintained
• SIIT equivalency granted till February
2004
• Recognized Provincial Curriculum
Length of Program
= 753 hours
• Theory
• 498 hours
» 12 courses
» 3 certificates
Food Safe,
CPR’C’/First Aid,
PART – Professional Assault Response Training
• Practicum
• 4 practicums
» 2 mid –
1 long term = 105 hrs; 1 home care = 30 hrs.
» 2 final –
1 long term = 90 hrs; 1 home care = 30 hrs.
Courses within the
HC/SCA Program
Personal Care
• 90 hours
• Skills necessary to assist clients in
meeting personal care needs
• Study body systems, infection control,
body mechanics, oral care, skin care,
lifting and transferring techniques and
devices, exercise and positioning,
specimen collection, mobility aids,
simple treatments and determining
temperature, pulse and respiration
Personal Competence
• 30 hours
• Goals and philosophy of home care and
long term care; employability skills,
ethics
• Role of caregiver
• Client teaching
• Abuse
Safe Environment
• 20 hours
• Promote client independence in a safe,
comfortable and pleasant environment
• Includes fire safety, emergency
response, WHMIS, household cleaning
and laundry
Interpersonal Communication
• 30 hours
• Interpersonal communication theory and
applications in the workplace
• Includes the importance of self-awareness and
self-esteem
• Perception problems
• Verbal and nonverbal messages
• Listening skills
• Creating positive communication climates
• Resolving interpersonal conflict
Human Growth and
Development
• 30 hours
• Physical, social, intellectual and
emotional aspects across the lifespan –
infancy to old age
• Includes working effectively with all age
groups within a family setting
Communication Skills
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Application of attending behaviours
Empathy
Respect
Concreteness and summarization
Genuineness
Communication in the
Workplace
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Written and oral communication skills
Including observing
Reporting
Documentation
Care plans
Includes basic medical terminology
Special Needs I
• 45 hours
• Basic needs and interventions of clients
with chronic conditions
• Focus on clients with disruptions in
sensory organs
Special Needs II
• 45 hours
• Basic needs and interventions of clients
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Altered mental abilities
Palliative care
Disruption in mental health
Infectious process
Cancer
Alcohol/drug dependency
Body functions
Body Systems
Post Acute Care
• 30 hours
• Skills to assist client to meet their needs
in the post acute phase
• Includes surgical or recent illness
Dementia
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Address causes
Stages and behaviours of dementia
Behaviour mapping
Appropriate interventions to promote
optional level of functioning
Nutrition
• 30 hours
• Normal nutritional requirements
• Meal planning, purchasing and
preparation
• Assisting clients to eat
Program Learning
Outcomes
Titles of unregulated workers
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Home Care Special Care Aide
Home Health Aide
Special Care Aide
Home Care Aide
Attendant III
Delivery options
• Full time
– 2 base programs – Saskatoon & Prince
Albert
– Regional colleges (broker and deliver
programs across the Province)
• Part time
– All courses are offered at SIAST’s 4
campuses as well as through regional
colleges
– Approximately 2000 students across the
Province
Delivery options (cont’d)
• Distance (correspondence)
– 11/12 courses are available through video
correspondence two or three times a year
– 1 offered per year via SCN (Saskatchewan
Communication Network) (televised)
• Work based (training on the job) (WBT)
– Agencies within Regional Health Authorities
can deliver on site
Number of graduates per
year
• Province wide – approximately 550-600
Prior Learning Assessment
and Recognition Availability
• Individual course
– 12/12 courses available fro individual PLAR.
• Variety of assessment tools
• Total program
– Total program PLAR available
• Assignments
• Comprehensive exams
• Clinical component
• Practicums
– Individual practicum PLAR
– Cumulative practicum PLAR – all 4 practicums in one
challenge
Salaries upon graduation
• Approximately $14.00 per hour
Providers of education in the
Province
• Private
– Saskatoon Business College (SBC) (not an
equivalent program)
• Public
– SIAST – Saskatchewan Institute of Applied
Science and Technology
– SIIT – Saskatchewan Indian Institute of
Technology
Career opportunities
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Long term care
Home care
Acute care
Group homes
Private care homes
Private home care services
Is a certificate from a
recognized college in your
province required prior to
employment?
• No
– not prior to but must be attained within
2 years of employment
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