Curriculum: Care worker 2018

2018 2019 2020

1. Deeply understands the profession and the professional area of care worker and implements the principles, theories, technologies of the professional area in traditional and in new work situations.
2. Completes difficult and various work tasks, and the tasks requiring innovative solutions within their profession and professional area.
3. Is responsible for the completion of their work tasks.
4. Learns and continues educating and guiding oneself independently.
5. Assesses and analyses the level of their knowledge.
6. Is able to give a detailed explanation of their point of view, expresses them in new situations, both orally and in written form.
7. Uses specific source materials when solving vocational and professional problems, assesses the credibility and validness of the information used.
8. Uses self-assessment for changing their behaviour.
9. Proposes ways how to improve the results of their work.
10. Participates effectively in different teams, is able to lead the teams if necessary.
11. Instructs colleagues.
12. Is able to understand the role of information technology, options and potential threats.
13. Evaluates critically the credibility of the information available.
14. Uses computer applications and options on the Internet for personal and work-related purposes.
15. Uses support materials in order to create information, present it and to understand it, and uses internet-based search engines and other services.
16. Thinks systematically and is creative and is able to
assess their ideas critically and to find independent options for carrying them out.
17. Initiates, develops and implements the ideas.
18. Understands the principles of entrepreneurship.
19. Compiles under instruction their own short-term and a long-term career plan.
20. Independently finds options how to educate themselves professionally and how to activate themselves on labour market.
21. Relates requirements of professional preparation with implementation options at labour market.

A person with secondary education or corresponding qualification or with basic education or corresponding qualification and works as a care worker/carer is allowed to begin their studies.
Admission requirements and rules are determined with the Rules for Student Admissions of Tallinn Health Care College.

Studies are considered as completed when the learner has achieved the learning outcomes of the curriculum and performed tasks necessary for the completion: performs theoretical test within the learning outcomes of main learning area, or completes a final paper and solves situation tasks.