Module 1

Communication and Service Standards (16 hours):

The unit go through communication and service standards help them to carry themselves with professionally, poise and confidence in addition to creating positive and respectful impressions in their day-to-days communication styles; in the delivery of care to both patients and next-of-kin.

Module 2

Skin and Wound Care (16 hours):

This unit focuses on the causes and preventive measures of pressure injuries, wound management (wound assessment, aseptic technique). Common products and practical inclusive). Infection control practice segment would cover common micro-organisms, infection preventive measures and hand hygiene.

Module 3

Basic Monitoring and Care Interventions (80 hours):
This unit focuses on the learners ablity to perform bedside/basic monitoring using medical devices to measure temperature, blood pressure, respiration, pulse, capillary blood glucose. Learners would also be taught and coached on how to manage patients who require oral care, feeding, showering, dressing, skin and foot care, safe manual handling, repositioning, supervised feeding, nasogastric tube feeding, nebulizer and topical ointment/cream applications.

Module 4

Conditions and Needs in the Older Person Population (24 hours):
This unit focuses on the common medical conditions / geriatric syndromes in the older person population. Learners would be able to utilize person-cantered approaches in supporting and caring for the older persons in inpatient settings such as aged care centres and hospitals as well as community settings and home-based services.

Module 5

Chronic Diseases and End of Life Care (24 hours):
This unit focuses on the learner ability to understand the common chronic diseases affecting the adult population in Singapore. They will learn about the disease process, clinical manifestations, medical, nursing, and pharmacological measures. In addition, they will recognize how polypharmacy will lead to adverse complications. Also, apply palliative concepts to care of the terminally ill and end of life including participation in symptom management.