HOME BASED PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT
CERTIFICATE IN HOME BASED CARE ASSITSANT L2
A home-based care will be able to provide supervised care and support to patients and household members in the home, in order to promote, restore and maintain a person’s comfort, function, spiritual wellbeing and physical health including care towards a dignified death.
Entry Requirements
No formal education required
Grade 9, 10, 11 or 12 (No specific subjects are required).
NQF Level 1 or equivalent competences in Mathematical Literacy and Communications.
Modules by Semester
Knowledge (Theory) Modules
• Fundamentals of Home Based Care (8 Credits).
Total Credits for Knowledge Modules: 8.
Practical (simulations) Skills Modules
• Identify and report on possible needs of patients and family/household members on an ongoing basis; (5
Credits).
• Implement delegated components of the care plan (Household and patient); (20 Credits).
• Capacitate patients/family/household members in basic practical care Skills; (5 Credits).
Total Credits for Practical Skills Modules: 30.
HEALTH COURSES
"Masters of Career Opportunities"
Home
Based Care
(Personal Care)
Diplomas and Certificates
Health Promotion Officer
Diplomas and Certificates
Social Auxiliary Work
Diplomas and Certificates
Therapeutic Work
The work of a home-based care focusses on therapeutic work (to make better), rehabilitative work (to restore to health), long-term maintenance (to care for over a long time) and palliative care (for those with life-limiting conditions). All these tasks require time and commitment and imply a longer-term relationship with clients/patients Home Based Care provide supervised care and support to patients and their immediate family's/household members in the home and appropriate community-based settings in order to promote, restore and maintain a person's maximum level of comfort, function and health including care towards a dignified death
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