Personal Support Worker
1 year – Ontario College Certificate
Experience hands-on learning and field placement opportunities!
Overview
Upcoming Intake: Fall 2022: College Drive – North Bay, Canadore at Stanford – Scarborough
This program trains students to offer personal care and home management services to clients in community or institutional settings. Personal support workers provide services to clients with physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Learn hands-on in the classroom, on community placements and in the home environment simulation lab equipped with high-end fidelity audio/visual equipment and interactive mannequins. PSWs are highly sought after as health care providers, working collaboratively as part of the health care team or in a supported independent living environment.
Become a PSW - Watch the video now
Note: This program is offered in North Bay and Parry Sound.
Your Future Career
- Long-term care facilities
- Community/home care
- Hospitals
- Hospice
What You Learn
- Nutritional menu planning
- Clinical and community care (hospital and long-term)
- Simulation and lab work
- Diseases and pharmacology
- Patient client home care
Admissions Requirements
Admissions Requirements
OSSD or equivalent, ENG4C or ENG4U
If English is not your first language you must provide proof of English competency.
View current English Language Proficiency Requirements.
Curriculum
Curriculum
Semester 1
| CMM125 | Communication Fundamentals |
| PSW185 | Professional Issues |
| PSW235 | Numeracy and Healthy Living |
| PSW152 | Client, Family & Community |
| CLT100 | Canada's First Peoples |
| PSY200 | Lifespan Development |
| PSW180 | Biology for PSWs |
Semester 2
| PSW205 | Mental Health (6 weeks) |
| PSW210 | Lab II (Simulation Lab, 6 weeks) |
| PSW162 | Lab I |
| PSW230 | Clinical |
| PSW300 | Consolidation |
Tuition Fees
Tuition Fees
2022-23 – 1 year – Ontario College Certificate
College Drive Campus – Domestic| Year | Tuition | Ancillary Fees | Material Fee | Trip Fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2720.24 | $1290.98 | $405 | - | $4416.22 |
2022-23 – 1 year – Ontario College Certificate
College Drive Campus – International| Year | Tuition | Ancillary Fees | Material Fee | Trip Fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $14102.08 | $1870.98 | $405 | - | $16378.06 |
2022-23 – 1 year – Ontario College Certificate
West Parry Sound Campus – Domestic| Year | Tuition | Ancillary Fees | Material Fee | Trip Fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2720.24 | $1019.00 | $405 | - | $4146.22 |
2022-23 – 1 year – Ontario College Certificate
West Parry Sound Campus – International| Year | Tuition | Ancillary Fees | Material Fee | Trip Fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $14102.08 | $1624.00 | $405 | - | $16131.08 |
2022-23 – 1 year – Ontario College Certificate
Canadore @ Stanford – International| Year | Tuition | Ancillary Fees | Material Fee | Trip Fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $14102.08 | $1373 | $405 | - | $15880.08 |
What You Need
What You Need
Clinical Placement Documentation
Canadore College has partnered with Synergy Gateway to collect and verify documentation needed for your clinical placements. Click here to find out more information.
Check out the Campus Bookstore to not only purchase your textbooks but also view your book list before the semester starts.
You will also need:
- TB Testing (Campus Health Centre) - no charge
- Scrubs (2 sets, burgundy/wine) - apx. $80.00
- Calculator - apx. $20.00
- Mask Fit Testing - apx. $25.00
- CPIC - apx. $45.00
- First Aid / CPR - apx. $80.00
- Clearance Card (Campus Health Centre) - $35.00
- Hep B Immunization - apx. $35.00 each booster (if required)
- Varicella $85.00 for those born before 2000
Students will also require a Lab Kit.
Canadore College will implement Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in Fall 2020 to enhance students’ learning experience in and out of the classroom and to ensure student flexibility in learning. To learn more about BYOD and to find out what is required for your program, please visit https://www.canadorecollege.ca/BYOD
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes represent culminating demonstrations of learning and achievement. In addition, learning outcomes are interrelated and cannot be viewed in isolation of one another. As such, they should be viewed as a comprehensive whole. They describe performances that demonstrate that significant integrated learning by graduates of the program has been achieved.
Further Your Education
Further Your Education
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