Certified Nursing Assistant
Course Information - Certified Nursing Assistant
This course covers basic nursing skills including taking vital signs, assuring patients safety, and caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Those wishing to be employed as Geriatric Nursing Assistants can complete this Certified Nursing Assistant course and then apply for Certified Nursing Assistant licensing examination. Our classes consists of 80 hours of classroom, lab skills and 40 hours of clinical experiencing in and outside facility.
Objectives:
At the completion of the program, the graduate is able to do the following:
- Identify patient care needs in all age groups.
- Provide safe, competent care utilizing appropriate
knowledge, skill and abilities. - Communicate with clients, their family members,
co-workers, and other members of the health care team. - Assume accountability and responsibility for nursing assistant as a competent health care practitioner.
Course Details
- Understanding the heatlhcare settings
- Legal and ethical issues
- The nursing assistant and the care term
- Communication and cultural diversity
- Preventing infections
- Safety and body mechanics
- Emergency care and disaster preparation
- Human needs and development
- The Healthy Human Body
- The Healthy Human Body
- Positioning, transferring, and ambulation
- Admitting, transferring, discharging
- Hand Hygiene (Handwashing)