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Therapy Assistant helps the rehabilitation therapists in administering
basic treatment on patients, maintaining the therapy area, equipment
and inventory and help provide more personalised care to patients.
One
of the graduands, Mr Tahir Jumat, who has 12 years of working experience
as a TA, found the CoC RT course
very useful.
“In
the past, I always ask patients to do their exercises without knowing
which muscles groups are being targeted. Now, I know flexion exercises
help patients with knee injuries regain the strength of quadraceps
group of muscles and hamstrings after operation. Without appropriate
exercises, these patients may have problems balancing in future.”
CGH
was also awarded the Approved Training Centre (ATC) status by ITE
for this course receiving the ATC Certificate of Accreditation from
Mr Aw York Bin, Divisional Director for Industry-based Training,
ITE.
Besides
the CoC Rehabilitation Therapy course, Dr Balaji also gave out certificates
to the hospital’s first batch of 15 Senior Enrolled Nurses
(SEN) who completed the 9-month Nursing Course for SENs at the graduation
ceremony.
Senior
Enrolled Nurses assist patients in their activities of daily living
and monitor their conditions. They also help to supervise Enrolled
Nurses and Patient Care Assistants in caring for patients.
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Mr
Tahir Jumat, Therapy Assistant, demonstrating flexion exercises
to strengthen the quadraceps muscles using the Cybrex Machine. |
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“The
course will empower SENs to take on more care responsibilities.
By preparing SENs for expanded roles, the registered nurses
can dedicate themselves to nursing work and this will help
us better cope with nursing shortage,” said Mr T K
Udairam, Chief Executive Officer.
“I
would like to urge all healthcare staff to take on the challenge
of skills upgrading and continuing education. It is only
through such efforts of lifelong learning that we can provide
quality healthcare for all Singaporeans in the 21st century,”
said Dr Balaji.
CGH
is committed to upgrading the skills of its healthcare support
staff. Besides the Coc Rehabilitation Therapy course, CGH
has also been running accredited courses for Patient Service
Assistants (PSA) and Health Care Assistants (HCA) since 1998.
The hospital was awarded the ATC status from ITE to conduct
courses for its PSAs and HCAs. |
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