Online PCA Course
This is a basic online 40 hour introductory course for individuals needing to prepare themselves to work with the elderly, disabled, handicapped or any incapacitated person that needs someone for family aid to assist them in general areas of nutrition, home management, and personal care.
This course does not require that the student have a HS diploma or GED.
Personal Care Aides help people who are elderly, disabled, ill, and/or mentally disabled to live in their own homes or in residential care facilities instead of in health facilities or institutions. Most personal and home care aides work with elderly or physically or mentally disabled clients who need more extensive personal and home care than family or friends can provide. Some aides work with families in which a parent is incapacitated, and small children needing care. Others help discharged hospital patients who have relatively short-term needs.
Personal and home care aides—also called homemakers, caregivers, companions, and personal attendants—provide housekeeping and routine personal care services. They clean clients’ houses, do laundry, and change bed linens. Aides may plan meals (Including special diets),shop forfood, and cook. Aides alsomay help clients get out of bed, bathe, dress, and groom. Some accompany clients to doctor's appointments or on other errands.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
In our Online PCA course, emphasis is placed on recognizing changes in condition, to whom and how to report such changes and accurately document. Skills include skin care, nutrition, fall prevention, home management and more. This is not a State Board of Nursing program. No clinicals are required.
Tuition
$299.00 paid in full at time of registration
Requirements
18 years or older
Able to read and write English and speak English
Able to lift at least 50 lbs.
Picture Id and Social Security card or birth certificate
Access to a computer
COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS: this is an online course. You will need a laptop, Personal
Computer (PC), or MAC to take this class. A printer is not required but very helpful. Chrome
Browser for Google Classroom. You may be able to use an I-pad but it is a little more difficult to
work with. We DO NOT recommend using a smartphone to take the class. We will not offer help on smartphones.
COURSE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
PCA STUDENT REQUIREMENTS:
- Pre Course Exams
- copy of driver's license or picture ID
- Must be 18 years or older.
- No HS diploma or GED required
- Must be able to read & write English at the level necessary to understand the training manual.
- Must have access to a computer, laptop, Chrome Book, or tablet with Chrome browser.
- Good manual dexterity & visual acuity.
*Our class is approved for Virginia, other states may accept it. It is the students responsibility to research what their state allows. No refunds will be granted once class has been completed.
40 Hour
Tuition $325
Tuition paid in full at registration
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Requirements
18 years or older
Able to read, write, and speak English
Able to lift at least 50 lbs.
Picture Id and Social Security card or birth certificate
Access to a computer
COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS: This is an online course. You will need a laptop, Personal Computer (PC), or MAC to take this class. A printer is not required but very helpful. Chrome Browser for Google Classroom. You may be able to use an Ipad but it is a little more difficult to work with. We DO NOT recommend using a smartphone to take the class. We will not offer help on smartphones. If you have any questions, please call the office at 757-229-0919.
