Training Service Provider
Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society Caregiver Training Course
Are you looking for a suitable course to make yourself a professional caregiver? Here comes a perfect chance for you to enrich your skills and techniques with Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society's new programme, a programme with 6 dedicated and outcome-oriented modules to help developing your caregiver skills.
THK's caregiver training course includes all together 6 modules to fit different needs of participants. You may feel free to join any modules that suit your needs in career; or in catering to the needs of the senior members of your family.
The expected learning outcomes of each module:
Module 1: Understanding Aging & Communication with the Elderly
- identify the adaptations to sensory changes due to the aging process
- identify effective communication techniques
- demonstrate effective communication techniques
Module 2: Emergency & Infection Control
- identify the principles of infection control
- demonstrate effective hand washing
- demonstrate effective actions to handle general emergencies
Module 3: Mobility Aid, Manual Handling & Fall Prevention
- demonstrate the correct way to use walking aids & wheelchairs
- demonstrate safe transfer techniques
- demonstrate fall prevention measures
Module 4: Positioning Techniques & Nutritional/ Feeding Needs
- demonstrate proper positioning techniques
- explain the nutritional needs for the elderly
- demonstrate safe and effective techniques when assisting an elderly during mealtime
Module 5: Health monitoring & Medication of the elderly
- demonstrate proper methods in medicine packing
- demonstrate proper use of thermometer to take temperature
- demonstrate proper use of sphygmomanometer to take blood pressure
- demonstrate proper use of a glucometer to determine blood glucose level
Module 6: Assisting in BADL & Maintenance Physical Exercise
- perform passive range of motion exercise on the elderly
- assist the elderly in dressing/undressing
- assist the elderly in toileting
- assist the elderly showering
