The Home Support/Resident Care
Attendant (HS/RCA) program is designed to provide students with
opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and values
necessary to function as frontline care providers in long-term
care facilities or home-care settings. Graduates are prepared
to provide care to older adults experiencing diverse, often
complex, but relatively stable, health and illness needs. Upon
completion of the program, graduates are qualified to work in
any level of institutionalized or home-care service, including
adult daycare, assisted living, intermediate care, extended
care, and home support.
The program is based on a provincial
curriculum and includes classroom and laboratory instruction as
well as practicum experience in a variety of settings. This is
a full-time program with daily attendance expected. A
certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the
program.
Entrance requirements
1. Successful
completion of one of the following:
• B.C. secondary school graduation.
Official Grade 12 transcript required.
• Grade 11 with English 11
(regular, not modified). Official transcript required.
• College and Career Preparation
(Advanced Level certificate)
• General Education Development
(GED) certificate
• Composition Placement Test
(minimum score 48)
Note: ESL (English as a Second
Language) applicants will be assessed on an individual basis by
the ESL department.
2.
Current Red Cross Standard certificate or St. John’s
Standard Enhanced First Aid certificate.
3.
Submission of a signed medical certificate indicating physical
fitness and emotional stability. (Form will be provided at
interview.)
4. Completion
of an immunization program including negative TB test or chest
X-ray is required before entry to the program. (Forms will be
provided at interview.) Hepatitis B immunization will be
required after entry to the program.
5.
Satisfactory interview with a program faculty member who may
accept or defer acceptance based on:
a) Knowledge of and motivation
toward a career as a home support/resident care attendant
b) Financial preparation
c) Communication skills
6.
Health-care experience. Your health-care experience must
consist of:
• Experience as an employee working
in a care setting with elderly clients with a satisfactory
reference; or
• 30 hours of volunteer experience
with residents in a long-term care setting with a satisfactory
reference. (Applicants may use the reference form attached to
the back of the HS/RCA program application form.)
7.
Satisfactory written work or personal reference.
8. Successfully
passing a security clearance check. (A criminal record check
form will be provided at the interview.)
9.
A valid driver’s licence and reliable transportation to
all practica sites.
How to apply
1.
You may apply to the program prior to the completion of all
entrance requirements. The following documents, however, must
be submitted to the Admissions and Records office, along with
the application fee, in order to process your application:
• UCFV application form
• Home Support/Resident Care
Attendant program application form
• Proof of academic prerequisites
(transcript required)*
The UCFV and HS/RCA application forms
are available from any UCFV Admissions and Records office or
Student Services.
*Note: If you are
currently enrolled in Grade 12, a letter is required from your
school counsellor stating that you are making satisfactory
progress towards meeting the educational requirements for Grade
12 graduation.
Once all these documents have been
received by the Admissions and Records office an application
date will be recorded, and your application will be forwarded
to the Home Support/Resident Care Attendant program.
2. Submit
all remaining documents to the Health Sciences Centre,
Chilliwack campus. Applicants will be considered for the
program based on:
• Complete applicant status
• Date of application
Documents required in order to
achieve “complete applicant status” for Home
Support/Resident Care Attendant applicants include:
• UCFV application form
• Home Support/Resident Care
Attendant program application form
• Proof of academic prerequisite
(transcript required)
• Satisfactory employment or
volunteer reference working with residents in a long-term care
setting (minimum 30 hours)
• Current Red Cross Standard
certificate or St. John’s Standard Enhanced first aid
certificate
• Work or personal reference.
3. Once
“complete applicant status” has been obtained,
applicants will be notified of and expected to attend a program
orientation. Failure to attend the orientation may delay entry
to the program.
4.
At the program orientation, applicants will be given a date and
time for their interview with program faculty. At the
interview, applicants will be given specific immunization,
medical, and criminal record check forms and a due date on
which the forms must be completed and returned.
5. Applicants
will be given written notification as to whether or not they
have been accepted once the completed immunization, security
clearance, and medical forms have been received and reviewed by
program faculty.
6.
Upon acceptance into the program, applicants will be provided
with registration information by the Admissions and Records
office. A deposit is required by a specified date in order to
reserve a seat in the program. This deposit is applied to the
tuition fees and is not refundable. Applicants who do not
register for the program and pay the deposit, forfeit their
seat to the next person on the program waiting list and must
reapply to the program.
Dates and locations
This is a 24-week program; June 13,
2005 to November 25, 2005, November 21, 2005 to May 19, 2006,
and June 12, 2006 to November 24, 2006. Classes are located at
the Health Sciences Centre, Chilliwack campus. Approximately
one-half of the program takes place in a variety of facilities
throughout the Fraser Valley.
Fees and additional costs
Fees stated are in effect for 2005/06
and are subject to change for 2006/07.
The tuition fees for the program are
approximately $2,450. Books, supplies, and field trips will
cost about $200. Uniform(s) and white duty shoes will cost
approximately $200. The cost of travelling to and from
practicum locations is the responsibility of the student. See
the Fees and Other Costs section for more
information.
Program outline
Course Title Credits
HSRC 150 Health and Healing:
Concepts for Practice 2
Concepts for Practice 2
HSRC 155 Work Role: Introduction
to Home Support/Resident
Care Attendant Practice 2
to Home Support/Resident
Care Attendant Practice 2
HSRC 160 Personal Care Skills in
Home Support/Resident Care 4
HSRC 165A Extended Care Practicum 6
Home Support/Resident Care 4
HSRC 165A Extended Care Practicum 6
HSRC 165B Intermediate Care
Practicum 3
HSRC 165C Home Support Practicum 2
HSRC 170 Human Relations:
Interpersonal Communications 2
Interpersonal Communications 2
HSRC 175 Healing: Special Needs
in
Home Support/Resident Care 2
Home Support/Resident Care 2
HSRC 180 Health: Lifestyle and
Choices 1
Total 24
Faculty
Wanda Gordon, Director, Health
Sciences, RN, BSN, MA (UBC)
Sandi McGladdery, Coordinator, RN, BSN
(UBC), Dip. Gero.
Janet Bergen, RN, BT, MA (TWU)
Cecilia Grant, RN, BN (Calgary)
Phyllis Randle, RN, BSN (UCFV)
Katie Wickers, BSc (Rehab)
Support staff
Janice Corbeil, Program Assistant
Sherry Neetz, Department Assistant
Christine Sawatzky, Department
Assistant
Advisory committee
Cheryl Adamson, Menno Hospital
Kathy Chace, We Care Home Health
Services
Hayley Rees-Howlett, Pleasant View
Home Care Society
Debbie Davidson, The Waverly of
Chilliwack
Shelina Deacon, alumni representative
Brenda Gillette, Chilliwack Society
for Community Living
Lynda Marlett, McIntosh Lodge
Jennifer Ladesma, Tabor Home
Ann Marie Leyen, Glenwood
ECU, MSA Hospital, TBA
Denise Moore (Chairperson), FVHR, Home
Support Service
Cindy Schultz, Valley Haven Guest Home
Diane Field, Fraser Hope Lodge
Elaine Price, Eden Intermediate Care
Home
Shelagh Walker, ECU, Chilliwack
General Hospital
Hilde Wiebe, Menno Home
Gwyn Williams, Maplewood House
Continuing Studies offers a number of
certificate programs in a variety of employment sectors. For
more information on the following programs, contact Laura
Larson in Continuing Studies at 604-864-4626 or 604-792-0025,
local 4626
Community Pharmacy Technician — A part-time program designed to
train individuals seeking employment in community pharmacies.
Dental Office Receptionist — This program is designed to
provide students with the skills to work as a dental office
receptionist.
Medical Imaging Clinical Support
Worker — This
advanced program is intended for those who currently hold a
Medical Office Assistant or Nursing Unit Clerk certificate, or
a certificate in an allied health program, or who have two
years’ experience within the last three years in a
medical imaging department. This program will provide the
theoretical and clinical components to work as clinical support
workers in the medical imaging department of hospitals.
Medical Office Assistant — An intensive 14-week
(including two-week practicum) program designed to prepare
students to work in medical offices.
Nursing Unit Clerk — This program prepares individuals to
work in hospitals as nursing unit clerks.
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