Acute Personal Care & Assistance (HRCA 1325)

This practical course provides students with the opportunity to upgrade their personal care and assistance skills that are required in a hospital setting. Students will learn the care skills that are expected of them within the parameters of the Health Care Assistant role in the acute care setting. In a supervised laboratory environment, students learn to build on previously acquired basic care principles and learn to refine their care-giver skills in order to maintain and promote the comfort, safety, independence, and well-being of clients in an acute care setting.
Course code: HRCA 1325
Credits: 1.5
Length: 30.0 hours
Course outline: view https://www.vcc.ca/vccphp/courseoutline?subject=HRCA&number=1325

Corequisites

HRCA 1320.
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Additional Information

  • 1. Personal care skills
    2. Medical and surgical asepsis
    3. Application and removal of personal protective equipment
    4. Pre and postoperative care
    5. Body mechanics
    6. Perform a basic head to toe observation and report observations
    7. Measuring and recording vital signs
    8. Changing IV gowns
    9. Non-sterile dressing change
    10. Specimen collection
    11. Measuring and recording intake and output
    12. Care of indwelling urinary catheter
    13. Measuring and recording weight
    14. Enema and rectal suppository administration
    15. Common emergency skills

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

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† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.