Posted By medschool on June 27, 2009

Nursing and Healthcare Assistant Classes

Certified Nursing Assistant Classes

In today’s hospitals and extended care facilities a nurse assistant is an important part of a health care team that includes many personnel outside of nurses. Nurse assistants are needed to provide routine care so that nurses can provide care that only they can perform, as outlined by each state’s Nurse Practice Acts, such as formulating care plans, nursing assessments, administering medication, and assisting in surgery room preparation. The nurse assistant must not only be very skilled in the actual procedures being performed but must also be able to observe a patient’s condition and report that information back to the nurse. Due to other responsibilities, the nurse cannot spend large amounts of time in the room with the patient so the nurse assistant is often referred to as the nurse’s “eyes and ears”.

Common basic tasks may include any of the following:

• Answer patients’ call signal

• Turn and reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.

• Observe patients’ conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.

• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.

• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.

• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.

• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.

• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.

• Clean rooms and change linens.

• Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.

A nurse assistant must also have a strong grasp of emergency procedures and be able to stay calm in stressful situations.

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

THE NURSE AIDE TRAINING PROGRAM

REQUIREMENTS:

Purchase: Textbook and Workbook: BEING A NURSING ASSISTANT:9TH
EDITION. Author: Francie Wolgin

DRESS CODE:

students are permitted to wear “street clothes” during non clinical classroom days. Tops must be long enough to cover the midriff when bending over. T-shirts, tank tops or sleeveless tops are unacceptable. Slacks, Shirt, culottes, or walking shorts of knee length are permitted. Identification badges are to be worn at all times in class or in clinical.

CLINICALS:

• School uniform

• Clean white shoes

• Clean hair that is styled so that will not fall onto a client during   care

• Clean short nails with only natural or pastel polish

• No dangling earrings

• No perfumes

• Males are to be well shaven or have neatly trimmed facial hair

• Underclothing must be solid white or beige when worm beneath white uniform

• Evidence of daily personal hygiene will be demonstrate by absence of   body odor

Any evidence of consumptionas of mind altering drugs or alcohol will be grounds for immediate with no refund of payment

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