Care-in-Place Curriculum Standard

Designation Number:
H411
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
11.020.10
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

This standard is intended to support all workers providing care-in-place and their employers by providing competency requirements and guidance to perform occupations and roles.

Care-in-place refers to all services (e.g., transportation, indoor domestic tasks, home maintenance, health care, personal care) preformed in and around persons’ personal homes and all community residential care settings to support living long, safe, healthy, independent lives at home during all life stages.

This standard will provide guidance and/or requirements for common curriculum to train workers to provide care-in-place services (e.g., working alone, patient privacy, use of medical devices and non-medical health and wellness technologies, cultural sensitivity, chronic disease management, palliative care, dementia care, early mental health symptom identification). The standard will provide nationally consistent and comprehensive guidance on education and training to support care-in-place service provision.

Project need:

COVID-19 has accelerated the need and demand for care services outside of traditional health care facilities, ‘care-in-place’ (e.g., home care, assisted living, supportive housing, nursing homes, personal care homes, long-term care homes). It has necessitated a re-evaluation and re-structuring of care programs, including services specifically related to COVID-19 care and the delivery of other care services to prevent unnecessary visits to health care facilities with limited capacity and higher risk of transmission. National and international evidence points to the effectiveness of care-in-place programs and their effectiveness on patient outcomes and in reducing the strain on the Canadian health care and public health systems. To progress and evolve an efficient and effective national care-in-place sector, an expanded, diverse, skilled, confident, safe, and healthy workforce that meets the needs of workers and employers is needed. National standards for care-in-place competency and curriculum will help support the need for a growing, skilled Canadian care-in-place workforce and to accelerate the skills development required to help workers and employers navigate the evolving labour market. As the sector evolves away from traditional home and community care service models, which have primarily focused on personal support work for the elderly and people with disabilities, these national standards will help support a new model where there is a diversity of services, providers, recipients, and educators. While occupation specific national occupational standards and curriculum are critical (e.g., paramedic, personal care providers), there is a need to define common care-in-place competencies and related curriculum which would be valuable across various occupations and roles. The post-pandemic upwelling of innovative care-in-place service offerings will require workers with new and specific knowledge and skills.

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