Objectives

These curriculum maps identify what is required during various training programs, as well as a progression through the topics. Objectives are designed to be globally relevant, identified by consensus.

 

  • Undergraduate Medicine
  • Continuing Care Assistant
  • Other Programs

Undergraduate Medicine

Continuing Care Assistant

Continuing Care Assistants (CCAs) work in "professional helping relationships" with people in home care, long term care facilities, nursing homes, community living settings, and not-for profit housing. It is the intention of this health care profession to encourage and inspire well being with people who are worked with. Inspire Well Being!

 

dave: this good information below should be embedded within another topic..

** In all ways working with clients/residents/patients as a CCA remember to _respect_ people you are working with through remembering to _encourage_ Dignity , Independence , Privacy , Preferences , Safety (foundational to all decisions made). Practice encouraging D.I.P.P.S. while working with people in Health Care settings.

 

REMEMBER A.P.I.E.

Assessment (Assessing)

Planning

Implementation (Implementing)

Evaluation (Evaluating)

 

Foundations

Health Care

Health and Disease

 

Applied Practice through Placements

  • Scenerios and Placements
  • CCA Personal Health Maintenance Plan

 

Additional Resources

CCA Scope and Support

NSAHO "Becoming a CCA" - core competencies, equivalents and program objectives

 

Other Programs

 

It would be great to have a number of different programs here, all accessing the same encyclopedia:

  • family medicine residency
  • continuing care assistant
  • clinical officer
  • nursing
  • dietitian