Program Overview

If you are a non-certified Health Care Aide seeking certification, Northern Lakes College's Health Care Aide eSTEP Program is for you. The Employed Student Tutored Education Program (eSTEP) is an online, distance-delivered program designed to provide employed students with the support they require to gain certification as a Health Care Aide. There are four student intakes per year - October, December, February and April. You can start the 1st day of any of those four months as long as you are registered by the 10th day of the previous month. You will continue to gain work experience in the clinical setting, and that experience will be eligible for practicum credits. You will have one year to complete the program. On completing the required six theory courses, and completing 320 employment hours learners are required to write a HCA Provincial Exam to obtain a Government of Alberta Health Care Aide Certificate.