The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the significant contribution personal support workers (PSWs) make to Canada’s health-care system. As the backbone of much of the daily health work, they assist ...

Ontario’s personal support workers need their own governing body to offer more accountability to residents in long-term care and their families, says the head of a group that represents 25,000 of ...

rabble talks to OPSWA president Miranda Ferrier about her efforts lobbying the government to regulate the profession. Miranda Ferrier is the president and founder of the Ontario Personal Support ...

TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing more than $300 million over three years to help thousands of people launch careers as personal support workers in long-term care homes and in the home and ...

The role: The role of a PSW is to provide care and support to vulnerable populations, most commonly the elderly. It involves assisting with everyday needs that range from medical treatment to ...

TORONTO — The Ontario government is continuing to build a more resilient health care system for generations to come by making it easier to become a personal support worker (PSW). Ontario is ...

The National Academy of Health and Business can help you train for a career that will allow you to help others. As a Personal Support Worker (PSW), you can work in long-term care facilities, chronic ...

Three years ago, Edwin Ng was lying in a hospital bed with tubes running from his neck and chest, connected to machines that were keeping him alive. At 48, Ng, a father of three, had become one of the ...