Tenderheart Homecare Course

Tenderheart Homecare Service also offers caregiver courses for foreign domestic helpers currently working in Hong Kong and wish to upgrade their career path. The four months (33 hours) training course is conducted by a Senior Registered Nurse from Hong Kong. After completion of the course, you will acquire a Caregiver Certificate which will qualify you to serve family in need. 

Course

Content

1

• Role and responsibility of caregiver of elderly

2

• Aging process: physical and emotional changes
• Communicating with Elderly

3

• Vital sign measurement

4

• First aid, crisis management, logistics of hospital admission and medical consultation
• Accident prevention and elderly safety

5

• Caretaking of elderly daily living

6

• Environment hygiene, caregiver hygiene, infection control

7

• Common illnesses of elderly, how to take care

8

• Meal preparation and feeding elderly

9

• Stroke patient caregiving
• Lifting and transfer skills
• Incontinence and skin care

10

• Alzheimer’s disease and dementia patient caregiving

11

• Palliative care