Acute Care Skills for HCA
Program Description
Are you an experienced RCA or HCA looking to work within a hospital and experience the excitement of a broader scope of care and practice? Are you looking to upgrade your career skills to achieve more? Then the Acute Care program may be for you.
Pacific Coast Community College is the only other school in BC that offers this training, and it does so with the approval and backing of our Vancouver General Hospital where we conduct our clinical placements for our students.
If you would like to begin your studies towards this next step in your career, call us now. Our program begins three times a year and lasts for approximately 8 weeks in total.
Why wait a year? Start now!
Within the program, students will be provided with additional knowledge and skills necessary to assist Registered Nurses in a new environment, working with patients/clients who are acutely ill but stable.
This program builds on the foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes developed in the Resident Care Aide program. Students will increase their awareness of changes in health status, treatments and interventions, and increase their comfort in working with equipment commonly required by the acutely ill patient/client.
This program helps prepare learners to complete their employers’ delegated tasks certification process.
In total, the program consists of three units: two theory components, and one clinical practicum.