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.
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
- Identify the adaptations to sensory changes due to the aging process
- Identify effective communication techniques
- Demonstrate effective communication techniques
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
