Kalandra offers the following HCA Training to students located OUTSIDE of New Zealand.
- These are NOT NZQA approved courses
- Students will receive a Completion Certificate from Kalandra
- Training is delivered Online
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Introduction to Healthcare Certificate
Duration: Approximately 40 hours
Cost: NZ$80
The Kalandra Introduction to Healthcare Certificate provides learners with the basic knowledge and theory required to make them safe to work in the healthcare industry. Learners will be provided information regarding; infection control, the role of the Health Care Assistant / Support Worker, ethics and professionalism, along with the practical components of the role such as moving and handling clients, feeding and nutrition and pressure area care.
As a guide some of the issues covered in this programme includes:
- The Role of the Support Worker/Assistant: understanding the role and what to do.
- Basic Nursing Capability: skills and procedures providing essential personal cares.
- Communication Skills: using a multitude of methods.
- Professional Behaviour: ethics, values.
- Medication: understanding how to give this safely.
- Moving a Patient: how to use equipment and support a person moving.
- Vulnerable Person: looking after the vulnerable person including the patient with Dementia and the dying person.
Programme Purpose:
The primary purpose of the Certificate in Introduction to Health Care is to meet the ongoing demand for staff to work both in a person’s home and also in aged care facilities. This certificate introduces the person to the role of a support person/assistant and the tasks that they must undertake, such as bathing and moving a person. The student will gain an insight into some diseases that affect the older person, including dementia and will learn how to apply comfort to the person who is dying. The graduate is a stable member of staff who provides the majority of care to the patients.
Programme Overview:
- Total learning hours: 320 (20 hours per week)
- Delivery length: 16 weeks
- Classroom based clinical practice: 40 hours
- Workplace experience: 80 hours
Programme Taught in Eight Courses:
- Course One – The Role of the Support Worker
- The role, working ethically and professionally
- Policies and procedures of the organisation
- Supporting people in the role of a support worker and the patient’s rights.
- Working with colleagues
- Course Two – Communicating with Others
- Barriers to communication and communicating well
- Access to communication supports
- Meeting privacy, confidentiality, and reporting requirements
- Understanding how your culture may impact on the support you give
- Being an advocate for your patient and yourself
- Course Three – Caring for the Whole Person (Holistic Approach)
- Understanding holistic needs and the benefits of meeting these needs
- The impact of unmet needs
- The skills required to meet holistic needs
- The elements and values of a holistic approach
- Active participation
- Strategies to promote active participation
- Course Four – Supporting a Person’s Needs
- Pre-packaged medication, benefits, and risks and how to use it.
- Why a person may need support with personal care
- Personal cares
- Dressing and undressing, showering, bathing
- Personal grooming
- Toileting, incontinence
- Skin care
- Fluids and hydration
- Supporting a person with appliances and aids
- Cather care
- Ileostomy/colostomy care
- Hearing aids
- Glasses
- Promoting independence
- Observing and responding to changes
- Infection control
- Contamination
- Hand hygiene
- Using personal protective equipment
- Course Five – Supporting a Persons Advanced Care Needs
- Normal swallowing, Dysphagia, Impaired swallowing
- Diet modifications, Swallowing techniques
- Urinary and faecal incontinence, Interventions, products, and practices for incontinence
- Infection control procedures
- Skin anatomy, Pressure injuries, How to prevent pressure injuries
- Reporting and monitoring concerns
- Course Six – Moving a Person
- Moving, handling, and assisting people with and without equipment
- Safety, risk assessment
- Biomechanical principles
- Course Seven – Caring for the Vulnerable Person
- Vulnerability
- Types of abuse, long term effects, response to abuse
- Neglect
- Challenging behaviour and dementia
- Course Eight – Caring for the Dying Person
- The dying process
- How to provide comfort and personal cares and supporting the dying person and family
- Hygiene, skin, eye, mouth, and pressure area care
- Pain management, use of touch, positioning, medication
- Hydration and nutrition
- Nausea and vomiting, elimination
- Changes in mental state
- Vital signs, respiratory distress, and secretions
- Ethical issues in palliative care
Programme and Graduate Outcomes
At the successful completion of this programme students will be awarded The Certificate in Introduction to Health Care.
Students will graduate with the following skills, knowledge and behaviour, understanding:
- The Role of the Support Person, using compassion and understanding to assist a patient and doing this professionally and ethically.
- Basic Medical/Nursing Knowledge: General medical and nursing knowledge. For example, the ability to perform basic nursing activities to support the patient’s personal care needs and to do this well.
- Safety: How to manage their own safety and the safety of their patient, especially how to avoid spreading infection.
Certificate in Care of the Older Person
The Kalandra Certificate in Care of the Older Person is a fundamental programme which trains Health Care Assistants / Support Workers in general aged health care issues, professional practices, skills, knowledge, and procedures. This programme provides information to enable the student to understand what is happening to the patient and become familiar with the terms used by medical professionals. Basic anatomy is taught as well as an overview of common diseases and illnesses.
This Certificate is for those who have completed the Certificate in Introduction to Healthcare or who have some knowledge and experience of nursing others. The programme offers more in-depth knowledge and skills taught are more advanced than those in the Introduction Certificate and the student is expected to be more involved in teamwork and have more responsibility.
This training enables graduates to deliver the highest standard of care and support in a health and wellbeing organisation including homecare and other aged-care environments.
As a guide some of the topics covered in this programme include:
- The Role of the Support Worker/Assistant: understanding the role and supporting others.
- Nursing Capability: skills and procedures providing some more advanced personal cares.
- Communication Skills: including report writing, developing care plans, communicating well.
- Professional Behaviour: ethics, values, teamwork
- Moving a Patient: how to use equipment and support a person moving.
- The Person: cultural awareness, holistic approach.
- Safety: infection control, risk management, working safely.
- Medical terminology: basic pharmacology, abbreviations.
- Anatomy: the life span, ageing process, disease process and illness.
- Module 1 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Role of the support worker
- Communication
- Module 2 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Holistic care
- Supporting a person’s needs
- Module 3 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Supporting advanced care needs
- Moving and handling
- Module 4 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Vulnerability
- End stage of life
Certificate in Dementia Care
For those with previous healthcare experience.
The Kalandra Certificate in Dementia Care is designed to train Health Care Assistants / Support Workers in Dementia care practices, skills, knowledge, and procedures. This training enables the Health Care Assistant / Support Worker to provide the highest standard of person-centred care and support for clients diagnosed with Dementia, and to facilitate an optimal quality of life and dignity.
- Module 1 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Module 2 (80 hours) Cost: NZ$160
- Module 3 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Communication and engagement
- Abuse and neglect
Certificate in Palliative Care
For those with previous healthcare experience.
The Kalandra Certificate in Palliative Care is designed to train Health Care Assistants / Support Workers in Palliative support professional practices, skills, knowledge, and procedures. This training enables Health Care Assistants / Support Workers to provide the highest standard of person-centred care and support for clients diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, and to facilitate an optimal quality of life and dignity during the process of dying and eventually death.
- Module 1 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
- Module 2 (80 hours) Cost: NZ$160
- Module 3 (40 hours) Cost: NZ$80
Introduction to Beauty and Touch Therapy Certificate
Course Length: 8 hours
Cost: NZ$20
The Kalandra Introduction to Beauty and Touch Therapy Certificate is an introductory course designed at providing a basic understanding of the internal and external effects of aging on the skin. Participants will gain a basic understanding of aging skin and suitable products and techniques that can be used in caring for the skin. Video demonstrations will include information on common conditions and contradictions of therapies and treatments as well as touch techniques for care of the face, hands and feet.
Volunteer Certificate
40 hours
