Castor Health Institute

CASTOR HEALTH INSTITUTE LLC is part of Castor group of companies (Castor Home Nursing and Castor Medical Supplies) serving in Northern Illinois. The school employs highly qualified instructors that excel in their own fields. Our mission is to prepare students so that they are ready to practice in their chosen career after the completion of the training and exam. We offer job preparation, placement assistance, and free sessions to prepare for the state competency exam. Castor strives to have a family atmosphere to provide support and guidance needed from a qualified individual. We recognize the importance of constant quality evaluation in order to serve the students better.

• Mission: Our mission is to deliver, enhance, and convey a state of the art hands-on education to empower individuals with skills, knowledge, practical training and experience needed for a successful career in the growing and rewarding healthcare field.

  
  The Mission and Goals of Castor Health Institute includes:
  Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
  * Outline basic physical, emotional and psychosocial aspects of an elderly client
  * Demonstrate caring, supportive, and safe care of clients
  * Define the scope of practice of a nurse aide and how they are an important part of the health care team
  * Practice non-specialized tasks (basic nurse aide skills) related to the personal care and comfort of residents, including activities of daily living.
  * Demonstrate effective, professional communication with faculty, clients and health care members

• Objectives: Our objective is to maintain high standards by recognizing and attending to the various needs of students while providing optimum intellectual, emotional, social, and physical challenge and development. The institute seeks to install in its students the concept that education carries with it an obligation to self, family, and community, and encourages each student to become a compassionate and productive member of society

  The goals and objectives pertain directly to the following areas:

  * introduction to the Health Care System
  * Introduction to the Patient
  * Working Environment
  * Safety
  * Lifting,Moving and Transporting Patients
  * The Patients's Unit
  * Basic Anatomy
  * Personal Care of the Patient
  * Nutrition/Fluid Balance
  * Observation and Recording Vital Signs
  * Supportive Care
  * Fundamentals of rehabilitation
  * Patient Care Planning
  * The Patient in Isolation
  * Care of the terminally ill patient
  * Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia
  * Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

  Clinical Sessions: will involve demonstrations, skills practice, observation, hands on client care experiences, working with facility staff and clinical instructors.

  Clinical Objectives

  Upon completion of the clinical sessions, the student will be able to: * Work cooperatively with other nursing and health care professionals
  * Follow facility procedures related to student/nurse aide scope of practice
  * Convey respect for staff, patients, fellow students and instructors
  * Preserve and protect client's autonomy, dignity, and rights
  * Take the initiative to seek out learning experiences
  * be self directed in utilizing time and setting priorities
  * Proficiently perform nursing care or tasks
• Flexibility: Castor understands the needs for the students to attend the class while they work or with other personal commitments

Castor Health Institute located in Sterling, IL offers comprehensive healthcare training programs consisting of classroom instruction, lab practice, and an industry externship in order to provide hybrid instruction with real-life application.