HEALTH CARE & COMMUNITY SERVICES

Make a Difference

Continuing Care Assistant

Battlefords Campus Meadow Lake Campus Lloydminster

The Continuing Care Assistant program allows you to make a difference in someone’s life everyday. This program is a one-year certificate program. If you enjoy caring for others, the Continuing Care Assistant program might be right for you. You’ll work directly with clients in long-term care, home care, assisted living, and even special needs classrooms. You will help them with mobility, personal care, assisting them to eat their meals and medication monitoring. Your clinical work experiences will give you a taste of different work settings and offer you a strong foundation as a health care support staff.

Part-time programs are available by modules.

Please refer to the College website for information on dates and tuition.

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Psychiatric Nursing

Battlefords Campus

Psychiatric Nursing is a two-and-a-half-year diploma program delivered through blended learning via classes, labs and practicums. Experienced faculty will help you link theory with practice to help clients with mental illness, psychiatric disorders and developmental and/or cognitive difficulties function at their maximum potential. You will build a strong foundation in psychiatric nursing practice, including health assessment and interventions; mental health challenges; counselling models and therapeutic relationships; family and community partnerships; psychotropic pharmacology; and addictions and forensics.

Practical Nursing

Battlefords Campus

The two-year Practical Nursing diploma program trains you to be a vital part of today’s health care team. You will learn to provide compassionate, professional nursing care to a full range of patients from infants to seniors in acute care, longterm care and within the community. You will get hands-on clinical experience allowing you to grow into a confident nurse before entering the job market.

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Early Learning & Child Care

Battlefords Campus

Early Learning & Child Care gives you the knowledge and skills you need to work in a variety of child care settings. The program integrates current research on early childhood education into all of your courses. You’ll receive well-rounded training in child and adolescent development and guidance techniques. You will receive hands-on experience developing programming for creative arts, language, cognitive, social and emotional development. Contact the College for any questions you may have.

Youth Care Worker Certificate

Battlefords Campus

North West College is offering the one-year Youth Care Worker Certificate program as it has transfer credit towards social work and justice studies degrees. The Youth Care Worker program will help you develop the skills you need to build healthy relationships with children, youth and families. You will get practical experience planning and implementing activities geared towards youth. You will learn about addictions, the criminal justice system, behavioural intervention strategies, therapeutic activities, and Indigenous awareness, among other topics making you a valuable support staff for youth in your community.