Curriculum
The Nurse Aide Training Program offers students 120-hours of instruction and hands-on clinical experiences at a long-term care facility. At the clinical facility, students have an opportunity to practice the skills that they learned in the classroom and skills lab.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to Health Care
- Role of the Nurse Aide
- Communication Skills
- Infection Control
- Body Systems
- Safety and Emergency Procedures
- Resident Rights, Independence
and Environment
- Use of Protective Devices and
Restraint Alternatives
- Behavioral Health and Social
Service Needs
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- Personal Care Skills
- Basic Nursing Skills
- Ethics
- Types of Abuse, Abuse
Prevention and Reporting
- Nutrition
- Body Mechanics
- Lifting and Transferring
- Rehabilitative and
Restorative Care
- Caring for the Cognitively
Impaired Resident
- Caring for the Dying Resident
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