Diploma Program
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95%
*Jan-Dec 2023, CDI College MB
Join CDI College's Health Care Aide program and start a fulfilling career in a growing field. Learn to provide care for elderly patients, individuals with special needs, and those facing mental health challenges. Gain essential skills and hands-on experience for a rewarding career in various care settings.
CDI College is registered with the Manitoba Ministry of Advanced Education and Training under the Private Vocational Institutions Act
Student Success Strategies
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills and study techniques to help foster effective learning and a positive educational experience. This course explores two components of learning styles, Multiple Intelligence-based theory and Personality Spectrum – MBTI-based theory, and how learning styles and personality types affect learning. The course will cover the importance of values, their relationship to goals and goal setting. Strategies for setting personal goals, prioritizing tasks, managing time, and the stress that results from study or work situations will be explored and practiced through active participation in learner-centred activities. Effective study habits, techniques for preparing for tests and productive note taking strategies are key topics of this course that will provide the students with the necessary skills and attitudes to be successful in school. Having a sound understanding of financial, money, credit and debt matters and their implication on our lives is critical knowledge to have. Students taking this course will benefit from completing the Financial Management Workshops, which provides comprehensive coverage of financial and money management skills that will allow them to better save, budget, and manage their money and financial situations.
Interpersonal Relations and Communications
This course focuses on the development of self-awareness, increased understanding of others, and development of effective interpersonal communication skills that can be used in a variety of care giving contexts. Students will be encouraged to become more aware of the impact of their own communication choices and patterns. They will have opportunity to develop and use communication techniques that demonstrate personal awareness, respect, and active listening skills.
Introduction to Health Care Aide
This introductory course will set the foundation for understanding and valuing basic human needs, respecting each client as a holistic human being. Students will be introduced to the dimensions of professional caring behaviours and become oriented to the important skills and conduct for success in the program. Professional responsibilities and the role of the healthcare worker will be explored. The hierarchy and communication among team members as well as the role of staffing will be addressed. The role, scope of practice, and responsibilities of the health care aide will be defined. Students will learn to incorporate the roles of the interdisciplinary team while caring for the individual. The Canadian Healthcare System will also be explored in this module with emphasis on the structure and policies of the Manitoba Ministry of Health.
Fundamentals of Anatomy and Medical Terminology
This course introduces the student to the study of the terminology concerning cells, tissues, organs, systems, and the effects of normal ageing on the body. The major body systems will be explored. This course enables students to describe and explain, at a basic level, the gross anatomy of the human body as well as the primary functions of each organ system. Students will learn the basic elements of medical terminology and then combine them into medical terms.
Development Across the Lifespan
This module will address human development from conception through adolescence. The psychology and physiology of growth and development are examined. Students will learn about fetal development and the effect of teratogens on an unborn child.
Data Collection and Reporting
The focus of this one-week module is to enable students to report and document vital observations made while communicating with clients. Students will learn the importance of subjective and objective information while correctly identifying acute and chronic needs of the resident. Students learn how to write effective care plans and chart appropriate information. Students will learn about the MDS (Minimum Data Set Process) used in nursing homes and hospitals as directed by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
Chronic Conditions
Covered in this module are critical topics that involve the care of the chronically ill. As a starting point to this module, students explore the chain of Infection. Students gain an understanding of key concepts in the prevention of transmission and the care of those with communicable disorders such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. Students also develop their understanding of a range of diseases including Parkinson’s disease and Diabetes Mellitus and neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Brain Injury, Spinal Cord injury and Epilepsy.
Facilitating Special Needs: Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health Issues
Covered in this module are critical topics like care of the elderly and chronically ill, caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia. This course facilitates students to work in special needs areas with those who may require added assistance to meet basic physical and psychological needs including elderly residents with special challenges. Students will gain knowledge, skill, and comprehension of the interventions necessary to care for clients with cognitive and mental disabilities.
Home Support
The Home Support course will provide students with the ability to care and support individuals within the community. Typically personal care and support includes emotional support, assistance with personal hygiene and activities of daily living, upkeep of home, food preparation, and safe food handling. Students investigate their legal responsibilities, the implications, and guidelines for safe and effective assistance with medications. Drug classifications, advantages, disadvantages, considerations for administration, and side effects are also studied. Students will have attended the City of Winnipeg Food Handling Certification course.
Palliative Care and Family Support
This module will build cross-cultural understanding around the issues of death and dying. Attitudes about death as well as the needs of the dying will be addressed along with physical changes, grief process, bereavement, levels of prevention, and postmortem care. The roles of family are discussed as well as active and inactive family participation and support networks, psychologists, social workers, and paraprofessionals in community healthcare.
Practical Skills
Students focus on key features of responsible and accountable care including the theory and practice behind promoting safety and comfort; proper body mechanics for safety, positioning, transfer and ambulation; personal care and hygiene; general comfort and rest measures; nutritional needs; and feeding. Students will learn how to care for the different types of wounds and their responsibilities to clients with wounds. This hands-on module will provide students with key practical skills for practicum.
Non-Violent Conflict Management
This course is designed to foster confidence and competence when dealing with potentially violent situations. The student learns to recognize behavioural responses to crisis and to respond with non-violent conflict resolutions through verbal and non-verbal intervention. Interpersonal and group dynamics, problem solving, and adaptive skills as they relate to conflict resolution and mediation will be explored. Some themes covered in conflict resolution training include:
CPR/First Aid and Food Handling Certificate
In this module, students will attend the workshops in order to obtain their Standard First Aid Certificate and CPR Certificate (Level C – Basic Rescuer. The second part of this module is aimed at obtaining the City of Winnipeg Food Handling Certification.
Career & Employment Strategies
In addition to learning career-oriented skills, students learn how to get a job in their chosen profession. Our Employment Services department will assist the graduate in resume writing, as well as preparing for job interviews. Our staff is sensitive to current job market trends and the needs of employers in each local market.
Our graduates receive guidance and training to use career tools that help job seekers build a better resume and cover letter, manage an online portfolio, hone interviewing skills, and develop a personal brand online.
Students will have the use of a computer lab which has unlimited Internet access, as well as job search resources. Facilitators will also be made available to advise on job finding resources, interview skills and techniques and to carry out mock interviews.
This course also looks at the planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up stages of an interview:
Practicum
This program includes a practicum component, which consists of work at a job site. The practicum work experience is a mandatory diploma requirement and the business organization does not pay for the services of the student during the practicum.
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Benefits of this program
Employment Opportunities
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Benefits of this program
Employment Opportunities
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My instructor helped me learn easier than any other teacher. She made sure that I understood everything before moving on and made me realize that this is what I wanted to do and that I can do it as well as she did.
Courtney C.
Health Care Aide Graduate
My instructor is an awesome motivator and explains things thoroughly. She is readily available should we need an explanation, too. My overall experience at CDI College has been absolutely amazing! Everyone from the staff is very helpful. You can't put a dollar figure on the quality of education you receive.
Ronald K.
Health Care Aide Graduate
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