Course curriculum
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Welcome to the Course
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Welcome
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1. Course Outline
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2. Welcome to Aged Care: Taster Video
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3. Quiz: Taster Video
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Module 1 - Introduction to the Aged Care Industry
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1. Introduction: Understanding the aged care industry in Australia
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2. Key Vocab!
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3. Quiz - The Aged Care Industry in Australia
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4. Reading: Types of Aged Care: Residential Care, Nursing Homes, Home Care
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5. Key Vocab!
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6. Quiz- Types of aged care
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7. Reading: Trends in Aged Care
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8. Key Vocab!
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9. Quiz- Trends in Aged Care
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10. Listening: Aged Care and Covid
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11. Key Vocab!
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Module 2 - Introduction to Aged Care Work
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1. Introduction
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2. Listening: Case Study - Myra
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3. Quiz - Myra
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4. Listening: Case Study - Diana and Ignatius
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5. Quiz - Diana and Ignatius
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6. Listening: Case Study - Uncle Bob
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7. Quiz - Uncle Bob
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Module 3 - A Typical Day as a Home Carer
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1. Introduction: Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
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2. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 1
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3. Key Vocab!
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4. Quiz - Part 1
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5. Grammar: Permission, Obligation and Ability
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6. Quiz - Permission Obligation and Ability
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7. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 2
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8. Key Vocab!
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9. Quiz - Part 2
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10. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 3
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11. Key Vocab!
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12. Quiz - Part 3
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13. Grammar: Possibility
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14. Vocab Review - Housework
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15. Vocab Review Answers - Housework
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Module 4 - Healthcare, Wellbeing and Treatment: Knowing your Client’s Needs
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1. Introduction
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2. Reading: Common symptoms of aging, common needs, diseases and treatments
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3. Key Vocab!
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4. Quiz - Reading
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5. Listening: Your client's health needs (Greg and Judy)
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6. Key Vocab!
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7. Quiz - Greg and Judy
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8. Speaking: Making a summary
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9. Listening: Your client's health needs (Marjorie)
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10. Key Vocab!
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11. Quiz - Marjorie
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12. Speaking: Making a summary
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13. Grammar: Relative Clauses
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14. Quiz - Relative Clauses
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Module 5 - Work Safety: Manual Handling, Industry Standards and Knowing your rights
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1. Introduction
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2. Reading: Manual Handling Basics
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3. Key Vocab!
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4. Quiz - Manual Handling
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5. Listening: Your rights as an aged care worker
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6. Quiz - Your Rights as an Aged Care Worker
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7. Reading: For Your Info!
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8. Key Vocab!
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9. Quiz - For your Info
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10. Listening and Speaking: Assertive language for talking about problems
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11. Reading: For your Info!
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12. Reading: The Certificate III in Individual Support
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Module 6 - Difficult Communication and Responding to Challenging Behaviour
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1. Introduction
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2. Listening: Loneliness in Old Age
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3. Key Vocab!
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4. Quiz - Video
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5. Listening: Picking up on Mental Health Cues
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6. Language Skills: Understanding how Someone is Feeling
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7. Language skills: Helpful ways of Responding
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8. Listening: Working with Grief (Margaret Part 1)
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9. Listening: Working with Grief (Margaret Part 2)
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10. Language skills: Helpful ways of Responding
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11. Listening: Challenging Behaviour (Barbara Part 1)
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12. Listening: Challenging Behaviour (Barbara Part 2)
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13. Language Skills: Responding to Challenging Behaviour
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14. Listening and Speaking: What would you do next? (Part 1)
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15. Listening and Speaking: What would you do next? (Part 2)
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Module 7: Writing Case Notes and Incident Reports
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1. Introduction
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2. Reading: Key Elements to Case Note Writing
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3. Reading: Case Notes for your shift with Ken
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4. Language Skills: Case Note Corrections
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5. Writing: Write your Own!
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6. Check your Writing
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7. Reading: Key Elements to Incident Report Writing
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8. Key Vocab!
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9. Reading: Incident Report for your shift with Heather
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10. Language Skills: Incident Report Corrections
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11. Writing: Write your Own!
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12. Check your Writing
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13. Grammar: Past Tenses Used for Case Notes and Incident Reports
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14. Quiz - Narrative Tenses
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Survey
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Survey: Please Complete
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