General Duty Assistants (GDA)

General Duty Assistant (GDA), a short-term training program, focuses on providing patient care in a safe, suitable environment. Some of the key responsibilities of a GDA are to help a patient perform basic activities of daily living (ADLs) emphasizing on patient’s daily personal care, comfort, safety, and health needs. A GDA also helps patients in ensuring optimal nutrition and plays a key role in the overall recovery of the patient.

Course Highlights

• Training: 420 hours of interactive classroom and practical sessions
• Multimedia content: Highly standardized multimedia-driven content ensuring high-quality training
• Industry Exposure: Visits to hospitals/nursing homes for research and knowledge application
• Interaction Session: Guest lectures and interactive sessions with healthcare domain experts to gain first-hand information about prospects, ideas, tips, and other information not openly available
• On-the-Job Training: OJT to acquaint participants with actual work scenarios and skills needed in the healthcare industry
• Certification: Get Certification of General Duty Assistant (GDA) from Healthcare

Sector Skills Council (HSSC)

• Placement: 100% placement support post successful completion of the course

Training Process –

MODULES

DOMAIN

• Module 1: Introduction to Human Body & Structure
• Module 2: Patient Basic Care & Needs
• Module 3: Positioning, Transferring & Mobility of Patients
• Module 4: Personal Hygiene & Professional Behavior
• Module 5: Consent, Documentation & Maintaining Records
• Module 6: Understanding techniques like bed making, elimination, fall prevention
• Module 7: Infection Control & Prevention
• Module 8: Sanitation, Safety & Basic First Aid

LIFE SKILLS

• Module 1: English for Employability_L1
• Module 2: Soft Skills
• Module 3: Digital Literacy
• Module 4: Financial Literacy _ Basic

OJT

• OJT/Industrial Training
• Complimentary Modules

Resume Writing

• Interview Preparation

Who is this course for?

Anyone who aspires to enter the healthcare ecosystem.

Eligibility Criteria

• Minimum 10th pass

• Batra Hospital, Delhi
• Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Delhi
• Sarvodaya Hospital, Faridabad
• Sunrise hospital, Cochin
• Nemcare Hospital, Guwahati
• Pulse hospital, Trivandrum
• GM Nurses Centre, Kolkata
• Healthcare at Home
• Sodexo Mahabir Hospital, Surat
• Divine Hospital, Kolkata