29. Every care attendant for personal assistant services must, before beginning work,(1) hold a vocational education diploma awarded by the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur in the fields of assistance in health care facilities or home care assistance;
(2) have received care attendant training from or through a school service centre or school board and hold an official document issued by the school service centre or the school board certifying competency in(a) identifying the responsibilities and obligations of a care attendant and behaving and intervening in a manner consistent with professional ethics with regard to residents’ rights;
(b) identifying the needs of elderly persons, recognizing the physical and physiological changes associated with normal aging, and taking into account the functional consequences of vision and hearing problems and expression problems such as aphasia, as well as their impact on those needs, in particular as part of the activities of daily living;
(c) applying basic practices to prevent infection and contamination;
(d) applying basic care procedures, in particular as part of the activities of daily living; and
(e) taking into account the functional consequences of illness, physical and mental disability and cognitive impairment and their impact on the needs of the elderly person, in particular as part of the activities of daily living; or
(3) hold from a school service centre or a school board a document confirming that(a) the care attendant has completed a number of courses equivalent to 1 year of full-time studies in a program leading to the title of nurse or nursing assistant; or
(b) the care attendant has 3 or more years of full-time experience in providing assistance in direct interventions obtained asi. a beneficiary care attendant or equivalent in a community organization or private seniors’ residence;
ii. a beneficiary care attendant in an institution or intermediate resource, or as the person responsible for an intermediate resource or family-type resource, provided the resource housed elderly persons and the care attendant performed tasks in the resource that involved providing assistance and support services; or
iii. a family and social auxiliary or a home care auxiliary in an institution operating a local community service centre or rehabilitation centre, or in a social economy enterprise.
For the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, 1 year of full-time experience corresponds to 1,664 hours of paid work.
259-2018O.C. 259-2018, s. 29; 816-2021O.C. 816-2021, s. 9711; 1574-2022O.C. 1574-2022, s. 2911.