Advanced Diploma in Respiratory Therapy

at Canadore College - College Drive Campus Canada

This program trains students to offer personal care and home management services to clients in community or institutional settings. Personal support workers provide services to clients with physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Learn hands-on in the classroom, on community placements and in the home environment simulation lab equipped with high-end fidelity audio/visual equipment and interactive mannequins. PSWs are highly sought after as health care providers, working collaboratively as part of the health care team or in a supported independent living environment.

What You Learn

• Nutritional menu planning
• Clinical and community care (hospital and long-term)
• Simulation and lab work
• Diseases and pharmacology
• Patient client home care

Start a career as a professional chef or cook in today's growing culinary industry. Train in our cutting-edge production kitchen. Learn valuable skills in food preparation, presentation and kitchen management in a real-world setting.

What You Learn:

• Baking and pastry arts
• Food, beverage and kitchen management
• Restaurant food production
• Food preparation and culinary skills
• Wines

Note: Graduates of this program are eligible for direct entry into the second year of the Culinary Management program

Obtain the knowledge you need to make an informed program choice, and the necessary skills and prerequisites to start your academic career in the health sector. This program will prepare you for further college studies in the health sciences sector. 

Graduates of this program are prepared to meet the eligibility requirements for a number of Canadore College programs including: Practical Nursing, Biotechnology Technologist, Occupational Therapist Assistant and Physiotherapist Assistant, and Environment Technician - Protection and Compliance

What You Learn

• Human biology
• Chemistry
• Communications
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Critical thinking and reasoning

Prepare for frontline practice as a health professional in social and health agencies in this highly collaborative and experiential program. Specific topics include interviewing and counselling, crisis intervention, and recovery strategies. Main themes include trauma-informed practice and concurrent disorders. In-class training is followed by a 420-hour community placement. 

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the business sector in this one-year certificate program. Careers in business can take you across the globe. Explore which business program or specialty is right for you, with the opportunity to transfer directly into the second year of the Business or Accounting program, or gain the skills and confidence to start your career in this diverse sector.

What You Learn

• Business math
• Communications
• Marketing for business
• Financial accounting
• Microeconomics

Develop the knowledge, skills, and judgement needed to become a self-regulated health professional. A large part of your training will include hands-on clinical practice. Students work with clients from the community on-site in Canadore’s Dental Hygiene Clinic, where they offer free dental hygiene services as they put their clinical theory into practice. Graduates are in high demand, finding employment in dental offices, hospitals, and research institutes. This program is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada.

What You Learn

• Oral anatomy
• Principles of radiography
• Microbiology
• Periodontics
• Pharmacology
• Orthodontics for dental hygienists

Train hands-on for this in-demand career field and gain the skills necessary to work with Canada's aging population. As the baby boomer generation ages, there is an increased demand for caring professionals with knowledge and expertise in aging. This program will teach you the skills and knowledge required by social service workers to assist older adults in maintaining their independence and enhance their quality of life.

What You Learn

• Gerontology 
• Mental health across the lifespan
• Leisure, recreation and health promotion 
• Canada's First Peoples
• Family dynamics
• Therapeutic case management
• Interpersonal skills related to death and bereavement

Note: Graduates may apply to register with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).

Increase the aptitudes and information you requirement for work in an assortment of habit settings through down to earth, hands-on learning. The educational program depends on the all-encompassing lessons of the Medicine Wheel, with an emphasis on the underlying drivers of fixation inside Indigenous people group. You will learn both social and standard ways to deal with addictions directing. Preparation in the program ranges from pharmacology to conventional strategies including Sacred Circles, Teaching/Learning Circles, and the utilization of the four holy medications - tobacco, cedar, savvy and sweet grass. 

Understudies may seek their employment in traditional medicine, family resource centers, young offender residential centers and alcohol and drug treatment units. Consequently, understudies will be helpful to develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of Traditional healing, learning and teaching, Cultural specific helping, Challenges facing Indigenous communities, Interviewing, reporting, and documenting, Addictions counseling skills, Relapse preventions, Multiculturalism, Psychology and sociology.

Diploma in social Service Worker helps students to learn human development, group dynamics, ethics, substance abuse training, and trauma informed practice and crisis intervention and methods for dealing with personal violence. 

This program will give you the information and aptitudes you have to enter this remunerating profession field. Learn abilities and techniques that will set you up to work in various settings and testing circumstances. Topics incorporate social equity, strengthening of underestimated residents and morals. You will likewise be acquainted with Indigenous history and culture through the Canada's First Peoples Course. Graduates can proceed to work with people or gatherings in an assortment of network settings.

Students may look for various job requirements in this vast field, for example; children’s programs and services, transition houses and shelters, programs and services for youth, residential facilities, and mental health and developmental services.

The field of biotechnology is vast and limitless. Graduates can go on to work in a variety of settings and industries including health, agriculture and natural resources. Learn hands-on techniques from current, well-published professors. The program prepares students for rewarding careers exploring solutions to a variety of problems facing our planet, such as cancer research, control of infectious diseases, food shortages, and environmental sustainability.

What You Learn:-

• Genetics
• Micro/molecular biology
• Biochemistry
• Inorganic and organic chemistry
• Immunology and virology
• Botany
• Biostatistics and bioinformatics
• Pharmacology/toxicology