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Personal Care Worker

Technical Certificate

1 Credit | Less than 1 year

Ashland, New Richmond, Rice Lake, Superior

This certificate emphasizes aspects of providing personal and supportive/rehabilitative healthcare to clients needing assistance in their home or other care facilities. Basic knowledge and skills acquired through this course include clients' rights, communication, rehabilitation, positioning and transfer skills, infection control, and safety.


 

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Financial assistance may be available to assist with your healthcare training as part of the Collaboration of Wisconsin Rural Investment in Community Healthcare grant. To determine if you're eligible, please connect with Dawn Knapp, grant project coordinator at the Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board. 

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Program Overview

The Personal Care Worker (PCW) course is a combination of online coursework coupled with a final 8-hour lab session with the course instructor. The online portion of the course is directed through a series of eight learning plans that carefully detail learning activities to help students learn the course content. Upon completion of the learning activities, students will contact the campus contact to schedule an 8-hour lab session that concludes with skill competency testing and the final written exam. The lab sessions are held on Saturdays and scheduled at the various Northwood Tech campuses (Ashland, New Richmond, Rice Lake, and Superior).

Program Outcomes

Personal Care Worker graduates will be able to:

  • Provide personal care for clients
  • Communicate effectively with clients, families, and healthcare teams
  • Promote client rights

Academics

Personal Care Worker is available at the Ashland, New Richmond, Rice Lake and Superior campuses. 

Upon completion of the learning activities, students will contact the campus contact to schedule an 8-hour lab session that concludes with skills competency testing and the final written exam. The lab sessions are held on Saturdays and scheduled at the various Northwood Tech campuses (Ashland, New Richmond, Rice Lake, and Superior).

Experienced Instructors

Learn from industry-respected instructors who have years of experience in the field. 

Convenient

This course allows you to work at your own pace to learn the content. 

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This 32-hour certificate will prepare you for a rewarding career as a personal care worker. 


 

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This course emphasizes aspects of providing personal and supportive/rehabilitative healthcare to clients needing assistance in their home or other care facilities. Basic knowledge and skills acquired through this course include clients' rights, communication, rehabilitation, positioning and transfer skills, infection control, and safety. Personal Care Worker is a 32-hour course that combines online coursework with a laboratory practice time and a final written exam and skills competency testing assessed under the guidance of a registered nurse.

 

Admissions and Tuition

Northwood Tech has an easy admission process that can be completed in one visit. Please see the details under the "Requirements and Application" section to get started.

Requirements and Application

Tuition and Fees

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Estimated Total Program Costs 2023-24*

Personal Care Worker

1 Credit | Less than 1 year

$172


*Tuition is an estimate and does not include any miscellaneous fees for various courses, tools, books, supplies or uniforms. Program book costs are in addition to tuition and fees and vary depending on course selection and where the books are purchased or rented. 


After the Northwood Tech Personal Care Worker Program

Upon completion of the program, you will earn a Personal Care Worker technical certificate.

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Rice Lake Admissions Contact

Nicole Messicci

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715.788.7144

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Jennifer Bednarik

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715.685.3039

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New Richmond Admissions Contact

Jodi Saliny

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715.752.8119

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Superior Admissions Contact

Anna Kalin

Admissions Advisor

715.319.7331

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