4.1 Clinical Pre-Placement Process
Personal Support Worker (PSW) students at Fanshawe College must complete pre-placement requirements to ensure they are eligible to attend clinical placements in long-term care and community settings. These requirements are managed and tracked through Synergy Gateway, an online platform used by the college to streamline the verification process.
Why is there a clinical pre-placement process?
Your future career in the healthcare field and being a Personal Support Worker requires you to meet specific health and safety standards before you can begin your first clinical placement. Why?
- This protects you, your placement agency co-workers, and the individuals you will care for during placement.
- To meet regulations set out by Ontario law.
- To meet placement agency requirements before joining their organization
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How does this impact you?
The Clinical Professional Practice Placement courses are a mandatory component of the PSW program. If you do not complete your pre-placement requirements, you cannot attend your placement. You will not graduate from the PSW program if you do not complete your clinical placements.
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What you need to know…
Before you start your clinical placement, you have to meet all of the pre-placement requirements.
You will not be assigned a placement if you do not complete the requirements. If you do not attend a placement, you will not graduate.
Clinical Placement Requirements
The placement coordinator will email information about the placement clearance process. You can wait to receive this email, or you are highly encouraged to begin the process as soon as you have been accepted into the program.
- Immunizations, including the COVID-19 vaccine
- Mask Fit Testing
- Standard First Aid and CPR BLS
- Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC)
- Placement Agreement Form[PDF]
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training[PDF]
