Personal Support Workers provide assistance with all activities of daily living. They are trained to perform care related to dressing, bathing, ambulation and transfers, skin integrity monitoring, incontinence and toileting, and basic medication administration by way of a basic pharmacology course. They also learn to identify mild behavioural changes.
You must be a member of the College in order to practice in Ontario. The scope of practice of nurses in Ontario PDF is regulated:. They are: 1. Remember when you first started your career how long it took for you to become the wonderful caregivers you are today. We do have a common purpose, which is caring for our seniors with respect and love. In stead of battling each other on who is the best we need to come together as a team, working towards a common purpose.
I have been a HCA for aprox. I personally have never heard a PSW say that they are better educated etc. Why the government makes things so complicated, I will never know! I say regulate everyone under another name…ONE name! Bottom line: We are both doing the same thing. We have the same purpose and same goals. To give care, with respect, to our seniors. I believe pride sometimes gets in the way of that.
Imagine a world where everyone respected eachother and communicated appropriately, with eachother. I just read this article, how great and to the point it is!!!!
I have heard the conversations of this very nature and I agree, who cares what your title or your position is, we are all here for the same thing and also agree that experience far outweighs education. I too feel that we get so caught up in the little things that we sometimes forget the BIG picture in all this, our residents!
I think It is another disgusting money making way for the government!!! I have been a certified healthcare aide since!! Now I. No longer exists!!! In most cases, the pay is not much, but you will learn how to deal with people during their illness. You'll probably be trained to take vitals. It is new to me to hear that they are doing fingersticks, but that is not a surprize, because that is an easy, no risk skill for the most part. Specializes in Lie detection.
Has 20 years experience. Mar 23, I was surprised to see that usa nursing students can do it while we cant. I guess it depends on what country you go to nursing school in. Actually that surprises me. I'm baffled. I graduated '02 from a Diploma program and nursing students were allowed to do them, at least the ones going through the college at that time.
When I worked as an RPN, the college instructors would ask who had chemsticks so the students could do them. I never worked with anyone that had to be certified to do chemsticks when I was working in Canada employed in the States since ' Is this something new? They can change colostomy appliances, take vitals and weights, get glucometer readings after I've trained them, and watched them, apply certain treatment creams By now, you probably have a clearer idea of which healthcare career is right for you.
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