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Care giving means providing care for the physical and emotional needs of a family member or a friend at home. Care giving may involve: assisting with meals, personal care and transportation and also helping with medical procedures and therapy. Higher diploma in Care Giving focuses on the practical, legal and ethical issues we face while providing care to the sick and elderly. It helps to develop the skills required to become an effective caregiver, which involves assisting loved ones and clients with meals, personal care, transportation and other physical and emotional needs. The course explains how to deal with dementia while managing the impact of age, disease and injury to bring comfort to those in need. It sharpens the caregiving skills to provide professional care to clients or family members.
The objective of the course is to prepare trained caregivers to provide quality care for disabled and old age person. The higher diploma in Care Giving is an intensive program designed especially for preparation to provide personalized care to children and older adults. The program will give the knowledge and develop the attitude, approach and skills critical to the well-being, comfort, safety and health of the clients.
Part-time: 12 months
Total Contact hours: 288 (No breaks between exams and modules),
Weekend: 1 Sunday (7 hrs class)
Week Schedule: 2 days per week (3.5hrs per day)
No. | Module Code | Module Title | Contact Hours (Inclusive of 3 hrs examination) |
1 | HC | Introduction to health care & Caregiving | 24 |
2 | ISC | Interpersonal Skills and Communication | 24 |
3 | PCN | Psychosocial care and Nutrition | 24 |
4 | FPM | Fall Prevention & Management | 24 |
5 | APH | Healthy Ageing & Promotion of Physical Health | 24 |
6 | NBI | New Born & Infant Nursing | 24 |
7 | OMH | Operations Management in Healthcare | 24 |
8 | CC | Counselling and Communication | 24 |
9 | FP | Fitness Assessment and Programming | 24 |
10 | MHD | Mental Health Well-Being and Dementia Care | 24 |
11 | EIS | Early Intervention & Special Education | 24 |
12 | EPW | Project Work | 24 |
Registration Fee: $150
Course Fee: $3600
• The candidate should have a minimum of 3 GEC ‘O’ levels passes English and 2 other subjects (If the candidate is foreigner, then required to produce equivalent qualification to GEC ‘O’ Level, such as International Secondary school certificate with passes English and other 2 subjects. For example, Bangladeshi nationality will be provided their Secondary School certificate and mark sheet and for Indian nationality will be providing 10th standard school leaving certificate and mark sheet.)
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• Matured candidate (i.e. minimum 30 years old with 8 years of working experience) with another relevant certificate qualification
• English language proficiency, the candidates must have English subject Pass in GEC ‘O’ level (or) Equivalent qualification
