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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Covers the various duties performed by a nurse's aide, emphasizing both the physical and emotional needs of the patient in the hospital. It provides an individual with the basic skills, human understandings and attitudes to care for the acutely ill under the supervision of an R.N. or L.P.N. It will promote personal feelings of job satisfaction, dignity, and worth.
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5.00 Credits
This course includes classroom and clinical instruction on basic patient care. Skills learned are daily hygiene, bed baths, taking vital signs, positioning, and transfer of patients and others. Patient care will be conducted in a nursing home setting. Prepares the student for the state licensing examination.
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5.00 Credits
This course includes the development of medicine knowledge, use of medicines, effects of medicine, administering medications, including preparation and accurate distribution of medicine for safety of the patient. Prerequisite: Licensed Geriatric Aide.
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1.00 Credits
This course offers an update on medication administration. Course coverage includes the identification of commonly used drugs and their interaction with foods and other drugs, identification and description of biological effects of medications on the elderly, restatement of the basic principles and skills required for safe practice in administering medications, and identifying the legal implications or regulations applying to administering medications and record-keeping. Recertification class for Medication Aide.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to train aides to fulfill requirements for efficient rehabilitative care of residents in nursing homes. This course will provide participants with the opportunity to learn the rehabilitative philosophy and work with departmental organization, and to understand the role of the physical therapist and the proper techniques of body mechanics, transfers, and ambulation. Prerequisite: Licensed Geriatric Aide.
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2.00 Credits
The 20 hour Home Health Aide course is designed to provide the student with basic care skills for families with unique health needs. The student will learn the goals of maintaining basic human needs, home management, nutrition, meal planning, adapting basic care activities, observing client's medication and special needs, as well as special procedures in emergency care. Prepares the student for the state licensing examination. Prerequisite: Licensed Geriatric Aide.
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3.00 Credits
The 90 hour Home Health Aide course is targeted for persons wanting to work in the home health field. The goal of home care is to meet social, psychological, and nursing needs in the home care setting.
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2.00 Credits
The Sheltered Living program at Hope Unlimited focuses on lending support to women and children in situations that involve verbal, mental, sexual, or physical abuse.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for CNA's who have not met the requirement that they have been employed to perform nursing tasks in the past 24 consecutive months. The course consists of 8 hours didactic and 8 hours laboratory clinical instruction.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to provide the basics needed for building vocabulary. Emphasizes the building of medical words from prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and combining forms. Also includes an overview of the body systems. Instructor: Julie Biermann (Syllabus) Instructor: Rebecca French (Syllabus) Instructor: Wanda Kneen Instructor: Dawn Markley-Stueven
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