They also assist by answering patients call lights, deliver messages, serve meals, make beds, Am, Pm Care, and help patients with meals and etc… In addition, nursing assistant observe patients physical, mental and emotional conditions, and report changes to the nursing or medical staff.
Nursing assistants employed in healthcare facilities are often the principal caregivers and required to take temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure (vital signs). Nursing Assistant under the supervision of nursing and medical staffs, provide personal care and emotional support to elderly and or acutely ill patients confined to hospitals, short-term intermediate facilities, hospice, home health and Long term care facilities. Upon graduation, students are eligible to take the Competency Exam for state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Students work as members of the health care field under the supervision of a clinical instructor, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), and a registered nurse (RN). Through guided learning experiences, students provide nursing assistant care to patients with basic health needs.
The program combines classroom instruction and laboratory practice with clinical nursing experience in the community practice setting at a long term care facility covering cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, general care of patients, and modern concepts of geriatric health care and nursing techniques. The Nursing Assistant program is one semester including 16 credit hours of combined nursing and general education courses. Semester hours required for graduation: 16Īdvisors: Dr.
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