Old Age Care Assistant
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Scope of practice
GCA is designed in keeping in view the course curriculum of General Duty Assistant (GDA) and Home Health Aid (HHA).
At the end of the course the candidate will have a certification of the skills attained and would be eligible to perform following activities:
- Discuss & verbalize the role of a basic healthcare provider
- Demonstrate basic healthcare needs of ambulatory conscious elderly people
- Build a comprehensive knowledge base on basic issues in geriatric care
- Enhance their skill and capacities in counseling and management of age care institutions
- Expose to various situations and innovative approaches in the field of ageing
- Enhance their knowledge in resource management, advocacy and networking
- Demonstrate techniques to maintain the personal hygiene needs of an elderly patient
- Practice infection control measures
- Demonstrate the ability to perform clinical skills essential in providing basic healthcare services
- Promote safety, understand usage of protective devices and demonstrate precautions to be taken while usage of equipment and devices
- Demonstrate professional behavior, personal qualities and characteristics of a Geriatric Care Assistant
- Demonstrate right methods of bio-medical waste management
- Demonstrate professional techniques in feeding to
- Demonstrate Basic Life Support, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and other actions in the event of medical and facility emergencies
- Demonstrate good communication, communicate accurately and appropriately in the role of Geriatric Care Assistant and demonstrate professional appearance and demeanor
Training Outcomes: As per the training module at the end of the training, the candidate would
- be certified to perform following activities–
- Assist patient in bathing
- Assist patient in grooming
- Assist individual in dressing-up
- Support patient to eat and drink–orally/assisted feeds e.g. RT Feeds
- Assist individual in maintaining normal elimination
- Maintenance of perineal hygiene, Catheter care in catheterized patients
- Prevent and control infection in the home setting
- Care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease
- Communicate with geriatric/paralytic/ immobile patient and their careers
- Enable geriatric/paralytic/immobile patient to cope with changes to their health and wellbeing
- Implement interventions with paralytic/immobile patient at risk of falls
- Act within the limits of one’s competence and authority
- Work effectively with others
- Manage work to meet requirements
- Maintain a safe, healthy and secure environment
- Practice Code of conduct while performing duties
- Follow biomedical waste disposal protocols
- Assist medication care of the immobile/semi or un-conscious patients
- Care of immobile patient’s to prevent bed sores and injuries
- Identify risk factors/events and inform doctor/nurse/family immediately
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this module, the student should be able to -
- 1. Understand the healthcare scenario in India
- 2. Develop understanding of role of a Geriatric Care Assistant
- 3. Develop understanding of general medical and nutrition related terminologies
- 4. Develop skills for anthropometric measurement for record keeping
- 5. Adhere to legislation, protocols and guidelines relevant to one’s role and field of practice
- 6. Work within organizational systems and requirements as appropriate to one’s role
- 7. Recognize the boundary of one’s role and responsibility and seek supervision when situations are beyond one’s competence and authority
- 8. Maintain competence within one’s role and field of practice
- 9. Understand the art of effective communication with various stakeholders like patients, nurses, etc.
- 10. Learn how to identify rapidly changing situations and adapt accordingly
- 11. Have a basic working knowledge of computers
12. Understand the importance of and process for first aid and triage
13. Understand his/her role in disaster preparedness and management
