Course Includes:
- Duration: 1000 Hours
- Certificate: Yes
Eligibility:
10th Pass
Job Description:
Individuals in this job provide patient care and assist in preparing patients unit. Some of the key responsibilities of a General Duty Assistant are to provide personal care, comfort and assistance in fulfilling the nutritional and elimination needs of the patient while ensuring their safety
Course Outcomes:
- Explain the role and responsibilities of a GDA
- Maintain proper body mechanics while handling the patient
- Ensure patient safety while carrying out procedures
- Prepare patient unit
- Assist the healthcare team for basic patient care like dressing, grooming
- Assist in maintaining nutrition and hydration and elimination needs
- Transfer patient samples and documents within the hospital
- Assist hospital staff in carrying out end of life care
- Apply infection control measures and dispose biomedical waste according to the standard protocols
- Promote safety and apply usage of personal protective equipment
Course Duration:
1000 hours (240:00 Hours duration) for Classroom,
180:00 Hours Skill Lab Training
580:00 Hours of mandatory OJT
Certification:
Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC)
Course Curriculum
| SN | Course Topics | Hours (Including Practical) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Healthcare systems | 5 |
| 2 | Broad function of patient care Assistant | 20 |
| 3 | Introduction to Human body- Structure & function | 5 |
| 4 | Personal hygiene and professional behaviour | 10 |
| 5 | Biomedical waste management | 10 |
| 6 | Emergency Medical response | 5 |
| 7 | Body mechanics | 10 |
| 8 | Positioning/Transferring/Mobility of patients | 10 |
| 9 | Observing and reporting | 10 |
| 10 | Consent, documentation & Records | 10 |
| 11 | Patient rights & environment | 10 |
| 12 | Patient basic care and needs | 10 |
| 13 | Elimination | 10 |
| 14 | Bed making | 10 |
| 15 | Fall Prevention | 10 |
| 16 | Mortuary management | 10 |
| 17 | Special procedures | 10 |
| 18 | Role of GDA- Sanitation, safety & first Aid | 15 |
| 19 | Infection control & prevention | 15 |
| 20 | Institutional emergencies in healthcare & response to patient call | 10 |
| 21 | Basic Computer Knowledge | 10 |
| 22 | Soft Skills & communications | 15 |
| Total Learning Hours | 240 | |
| Total OJT Hours | 180 | |
| Total Course Hours | 420 | |
