Description

Role of Personal support worker In Client Care

This course includes:

1. The Role of the PSW as part of the healthcare team
2. Workplace settings: Community and Facility based settings and the unique types of care required
   within Residential and medical facilities and the issues and challenges of support workers in the
   workplace.
3. In Class Reflective Journal Activity
4. Canadian Health Care System:
5. The evolution of Medicare and the five principles described within the Canada Health Act
6. Federal/ Provincial and territorial roles within the health care system as well

Textbooks/Manuals

Sorrentino, S. (2013). Mosby’s Canadian textbook for the support worker (3rd Cdn ed.). Mosby: St. Louis. Sorrentino, S. (2013).

Mosby’s Canadian textbook for the support worker, workbook (3rd Cdn ed.).

Mosby: St. Louis Mosby’s Nursing Assistant DVD Skills (Student Version 3.0)