Hours: Theory 11 / Laboratory 5 / Total 16 / Outside Hours 4 / Prerequisites: None

This course introduces the field of long-term care and the nurse aide?s role as part of the long term care team. Students will be taught safety measures, emergency measures, infection control, resident rights and independence, communication and interpersonal skills, and the importance of self-care as a health care professional.

Hours: Theory 14 / Laboratory 8 / Total 22 / Outside Hours 5.5 / Prerequisites: NUR100
This course continues instruction in the field of long-term care. Students will learn body mechanics, positioning and moving

residents, care of the residents?environment, assisting residents with bathing, toileting and perineal care, skin care, hygiene and grooming, nutrition, hydration, and elimination. Students also learn to promote a restraint-proper environment, vital signs, including height and weight, observing, reporting, and charting, admission, transfer, and discharge, and coping with death.

Hours: Theory 0 / Clinical 40 / Total 40 / Outside Hours 0 / Prerequisites: NUR100, NUR101, NUR102
Clinical practice provides the nurse aide student with forty (40) hours of practical experience in an approved long-term care

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facility. Hours may vary based on the clinical sites schedule, but are generally four hours per day, five days per week for two weeks. The student will be given the opportunity to apply the skills learned in the program and will be supervised by designated staff at the facility.