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Programme Type
The INTEC Home Health Care Certificate is part of the INTEC Self-Enrichment Series. The INTEC Home Health Care Certificate is an INTEC Certificate, which is not an accredited NQF qualification.
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Career Opportunities
Caregivers are people who possess sought-after personal qualities such as patience and especially sympathy. You may be just such a person, working as a volunteer for an organisation that provides Home Health Care in a rural community or you may be employed by an old age home or private care institution. As a Home Health Care Worker you are required to work under the guidance of a qualified community sister or doctor.
Entrance Requirement
Grade 10 (Std. 8) or equivalent, or relevant work experience.
Course Outcomes
The course has been compiled by highly skilled home health care professionals to provide a concise framework for learning. The content includes material suited to guide the inexperienced caregiver as well as to expand the skills of the more experienced care worker. It is easily adapted as both a learning tool and guide for preferred procedures in looking after patients within the contexts of the home and the community. All the material is designed to assist students in defining their role within the home health care system.
Course Duration
You should be able to finish this course within 18 months.
Course Content - Health care, communication and the community
- Infection control, hygiene and the environment
- Personal care and helping the patient
- The human body, nutrition and children
- Standard procedures in health care and rehabilitation
- Dealing with common diseases
- Geriatric care, emergency and special procedures
- Practical tasks
- The home health care kit
- Communication and working with people
- Basic anatomy and physiology
- Hygiene and the environment, personal care
- Infection control
- Nutritional information
- Rehabilitation in the home
- Disabled patients
- Children, both as patients and as family members
- Geriatric patients in the home and community
- Terminally ill patients
- Care of the dying
- Common diseases - (TB, Aids, pneumonia)
- Observing, measuring and recording
- Special procedures
- Emergency and first aid procedures
Practical Component
Part of the course requirement is that you perform certain tasks in a practical environment. You are therefore required to identify and make arrangements with the various health care sites to complete these practical tasks. You may not perform these tasks without the supervision of someone qualified in Home Health Care.
Assessment
All the required assignments must be completed and sent to the College for marking. All assignments must be successfully passed in order to obtain the award.
Award
On successful completion of this course, you will receive your INTEC Home Health Care Certificate.
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