Major Field of Study (MFS)

370-441 - Health Professions and Related Technologies

407-410 - Nursing Assistance

407 - Nursing Assistant - General

Certificate program designed to provide trainees with the skills needed to care for ill and convalescing patients and those requiring custodial care. Also taught are skills used to assist with the care of acutely ill patients in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centres and in the community. Nursing assistants work under the supervision of registered nurses and/or physicians.

• Example Program Names:

  • Assistant Nurse
  • Certified Nursing Assistant
  • Licensed Practical Nurse
  • Nursing Assistance
  • Nursing Assistant
  • Nursing Practical
  • Registered Nursing Assistant

408 - Health Care Aide

Program designed to train nursing support personnel to assist hospitalized or ill patients by promoting self-acceptance, self-esteem, dignity and by providing opportunities for recuperative or rehabilitative activities.

• Example Program Names:

  • Handicapped Services
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Aide
  • Health Care Support
  • Health Care Worker
  • Home Care
  • Home Health Aid
  • Home Making and Home Nursing
  • Home Nursing and Home Making
  • Home Support Worker
  • Homecare
  • Home-Makers and Care
  • Resident Care Worker
  • Residential Care (Worker)
  • Special Care Aide

409 - Long-term Care Aide

Program designed to provide students with instruction necessary to care for the physical, emotional and social needs of long term care residents. Although this program is directed to all age groups, special emphasis is placed on the problems faced by the elderly and assisting them with meals, nutrition requirements and daily activities.

• Example Program Names:

  • Extended Care
  • Geriatric Aide
  • Geriatric Assistance
  • Geriatric Nursing Aide Program
  • Geriatrics - Care of the Aged
  • Long Term Care
  • Long Term Care Aide
  • Long Term Care Home-Maker

410 - Nursing Aide

Program designed for health personnel to act as auxiliaries to registered nurses. Orderlies are trained in emergency procedures, advanced first aid training, orthopaedic equipment and care, scrubbing and sterilization, cardiac life support, geriatrics and other related topics.

• Example Program Names:

  • Certified Nursing Aide
  • Hospital Orderly
  • Nurse's Aide
  • Nurses Aide and Home Makers
  • Nursing Aide
  • Nursing Orderly
  • Orderly
  • Registered Nurses Aide
  • Ward Assistant or Aide