Other Assisting Occupations in Support of Health Services
Other titles : blood donor clinic helper, pharmacist assistant, physiotherapy helper, rehabilitation aide
Details
Description :
This unit group includes workers who provide services and assistance to health care professionals and other health care staff. They are employed in hospitals, clinics, offices of health care professionals, nursing homes, optical retail stores and laboratories, pharmacies and medical pathology laboratories.
Main duties :
Orthopedic technologists
- assist orthopedic surgeons in the treatment of orthopedic diseases and injuries by applying and adjusting casts, splints, bandages and other orthopedic devices;
- assisting in the application, maintenance and adjustment of traction equipment;
- cleaning and dressing wounds;
- removing casts, sutures, staples and pins;
- instruct patients and their families and other health care professionals with respect to orthopedic matters.
Pharmacy assistants
- assist pharmacists by compounding, packaging and labelling pharmaceutical products;
- maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products.
- optical/ophthalmic laboratory technicians and assistants
- operate laboratory equipment to grind, cut, polish and edge lenses for eyeglasses according to prescriptions received and fit lenses into frames;
- make minor repairs for customers such as replacing frame screws or straightening frames;
- maintain and repair optical laboratory equipment or machinery.
Regions where this career
has the best propspects:
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Outaouais
- Montréal
- Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Laval
- Lanaudière
- Laurentides
- Nord-du-Québec
- Côte-Nord
- Mauricie
- Estrie
- Capitale-Nationale
- Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- Bas-Saint-Laurent
- Montérégie
- Centre-du-Québec
Training
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)
Pharmacy Technical Assistance
Program length : less than a 1 years and half
Program Objectives
The training prepares the student to be a pharmacy technical assistant, working under the supervision of a pharmacist in either a community setting or in a health care establishment's pharmacy.
The main role of a pharmacy technical assistant is to assist the pharmacist in issuing prescriptions, maintaining and updating patient files as well as distributing and the sale of medications and pharmaceutical products. The pharmacy technical assistant also prepares prescriptions under the supervision of the pharmacist and keeps inventory up to date.
Where this program is available