Personal Support Worker

A One-Year Ontario College Certificate Program
Program Code: PSW6
Campus Code: LC (LC - London)
September Admission
15 week terms
Academic Calendars available at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates
School of Nursing: 519-452-4220

Program Code: PSW6J
Campus Code: SC (SC - Simcoe)
January Admission
15 week terms
Academic Calendars available at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates
James N. Allan Campus: 519-426-8260

Program Code: PSW6S
Campus Code: ST (ST - St. Thomas)
September/January Admission
15 week terms
Academic Calendars available at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates
St. Thomas/Elgin Campus: 519-633-2030

Program Code: PSW6T
Campus Code: TC (TC - Tillsonburg Centre)
November Admission
15 week terms
Academic Calendars available at www.fanshawec.ca/academicdates
Tillsonburg Centre: 519-842-9000

Program Description

Personal Support Worker is a two level program leading to an Ontario College Certificate.  Graduates, as entry-level unregulated workers, have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to provide personal care and home management services to clients in both community and institutional settings.

Personal support workers work with clients who are stable and who have clearly identified needs that are not expected to change significantly. They work under the supervision of care/service teams (which include nurses, and other regulated or non-regulated care providers), as well as under the direction of the client.

Applicant Selection Criteria

Where the number of eligible applicants exceeds the available spaces in the program, the Applicant Selection Criteria will be:

1. Preference for Permanent Residents of Ontario.
2. Receipt of Application by February 1st.
3. Achievement in the Admission Requirements.

Advanced Standing

• Applicants currently employed as a Home Support Worker or Health Care Aide may be eligible for prior learning assessment and receive credit for part of the course work.

Other Information

• Students registering in this program at the James N. Allan Campus in Simcoe should be aware that the program begins in early January, 2013 and runs continuously until the end of August, 2013. Students registering in this program at the Tillsonburg Centre should be aware that the program begins in early November, 2012 and runs continuously until the end of the third week in June, 2013.
• If you are currently on E.I., or have collected E.I. in the last three years, or maternity benefits in the last five years, you may qualify for financial assistance.
• The PSW clinical courses are designed to allow the student to synthesize all learned theoretical and laboratory information gained throughout the PSW program, and are designed to be taken sequentially. Due to their course design, no exceptions can be made to this order for any reason. As such, students must be aware of the following:

(a) All clinical practice experiences must be taken in sequence (see below), and the student must successfully complete all clinical courses in their correct order.
(b) In order to progress to the Consolidation and then the Community courses, students must first pass all other
theory courses, as well as their laboratory and clinical course. Therefore, if a student is unsatisfactory in the Long Term Care Clinical Practicum course(s), that student will not be allowed to progress to the next clinical practice experience. Similarly, if a student fails the Consolidation course, he or she cannot progress to the Community course.
(c) Students must be aware that this failure to progress to their next clinical course may have tuition funding implications, and full-time students will be held responsible for that full term's tuition. Students who require further explanation are advised to seek clarification from the PSW Program Co-ordinator or from the Registrar's Office.

• PSW Clinical Courses (in order) include:
  
  1. HLTH-3020 PSW Long Term Care Clinical Practicum
  
  Or:
  
  1.a. HLTH-3024 PSW Long Term Care Clinical Practicum 1, then
  
  1.b. HLTH-3025 PSW Long Term Care Clinical Practicum 2
  
  After completion of all other theory and lab courses:
  
  2. HLTH-3021 PSW Clinical Consolidation Practicum
  
  3. HLTH-3022 PSW Community Practicum