Training for home-care workers

The Qikiqtani Inuit Association and the Nunavut department of health and social services are working together to train home-care workers, prospective home-care workers and informal care givers in the Baffin region.

The GN is giving $250,000 to QIA, which has hired three registered nurses with home-care experience and knowledge of Inuit culture to provide the training. The training will include orientation to the home-care program, professional behaviour, communications, meal preparation, housekeeping duties, personal care, respiratory care, bed mobility and medications.

There will be 10 days and four evenings of training in each of 13 Baffin communities, starting in Iqaluit. The training will take place in two parts to allow trainers to return to each of the communities for a second five-day period to review problem areas and build on skills developed in the first round of training.