Assistance in Health Care Facilities
- This program trains the student to provide care, assistance and services related to the needs of a patient of any age.
- The students also learn to welcome and integrate persons in the care unit, provide care and comfort specific to the context of the unit, that is, they adapt the basic care and services to the clients condition as well as to the apparatus required.
Pharmacy Technical Assistance
- Pharmacy Technical Assistants work under the supervision of pharmacists in community pharmacies and health care establishments.
- Their primary function is to assist the pharmacist in dispensing prescriptions, creating and updating patient records as well as distributing and selling pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- They are also called on to prepare and package drugs under the pharmacist's supervision and maintain inventory.
Accounting
- To enable students to analyze accounting and administrative problems
- To educate students in the use of computer software dealing with accounting and administration
- To familiarize students with the responsibilities of accountants, bookkeepers and clerks
- To help student s adopt a positive attitude towards technological change and new challenges
Secretarial Studies
- To enable students to acquire the knowledge and skills to use basic and advanced word processing software as well as software for databases, spreadsheets and accounting software
- To ensure the use of proper office, business correspondence and reception etiquette
Shadd is designed to meet the needs of a diverse student community; a standard we are extremely proud of and are committed to maintaining and improving. You have chosen to take a challenge in a DVS. We use the word challenge because, for some of you, this is the first time you are studying in your newly adopted country of Canada. For others, it may be a return to school after years in the workplace or raising a family.
Starting a Business
- To enable students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to define a business venture
- To educate how to develop a business plan, sales techniques and negotiate financing for a business
