Advanced Foot Care Nursing Course

With over 45 years of combined experience, our educators have have designed the most comprehensive foot care course in Canada. 

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Welcome to Alberta Foot Care, and its affiliated education program, the Alberta Foot Care Academy. Alberta Foot Care is an Alberta-based Not for Profit created and operated by Advanced Foot Care Nurses, Educators, and Management from the former Victorian Order of Nurses Our Foot Care Educators offer 45 combined years of community, hospital and educational experience in advanced foot care.

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For decades, VON Canada was known as the gold standard of foot care service and education in Canadian nursing. With the closure of VON in Western Canada, the former VON staff recognized that as one of the largest providers of foot care in the province and one of the largest employers of Foot Care nurses, we are able to offer courses that provide not only quality theory, but expanded clinical experience taught by Educators who are currently active in the field, as well as having access to a vast number of clinical settings and other avenues for hands on experience.

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How Are We Different?

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We believe in small class size: - ONLY 12 STUDENTS ACCEPTED PER COURSE!!

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We 'Team Teach', so each student is supported by several experienced educators.

This allows us to provide a 1:3 teacher to student ratio throughout the course, both theory and clinical practicum.

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Drafted Canadian certification standards require that every student are supervised to 'manage 10 foot care clients.' We are the only course that provides the opportunity for EACH of our students to obtain HANDS ON clinical experience with at least 10 CLINICAL CLIENTS, and their foot care management

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What’s New and Improved?

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​80 Hour Course

• We have expanded our new theory component to meet or exceed current Canadian Foot Care education standards and now offer an 80 hour course.
   

At least 10 Clients During Hands On Clinical Experience

• Nurses always want “more, more, more”…when it comes to hands on clinical experience. Whether foot care nurses took their course with other companies, or with former courses that we delivered, our nurses always give the feedback that foot care courses just don’t offer enough hands on clinical time. Apparently some courses often only provide the opportunity to see 1-2 real clients. The consensus is that nurses feel that they needed more clinical exposure than the usual 1-2 clients.  We listen to our nurses…and we work hard to offer you hands on experience with at least 10 clients during our clinical practicum.

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