Classes

Nursing Assistant

260-300 hours. Complete in 12 to 16 weeks.

Learn to provide hands-on care to those who are unable to care for themselves. Through lecture and hands-on skills practice, you learn  to bathe, dress, feed, and assist patients with toileting as well as report changes in a patient’s physical or mental status to the supervising nurse. This program prepares students for the Certified Nurse Assistant examination which is taken upon completion of the course. At that time, students become certified as a Nurse Assistant by the State of California, and can work in rehabilitation and long-term care facilities such as convalescent hospitals, and through an agency or in a private home.

The Nursing Assistant Training course covers the following topics:

• Requirements for nurse assistant certification, professionalism and ethics
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Promoting patients' rights and independence
• Rehabilitative/restorative care
• Medical/surgical asepsis; standard procedures
• Emergency procedures and prevention of catastrophe
• Resident care skills and procedures
• Body mechanics; nutrition
• Vital signs; weights and measures; observation and charting
• The long-term-care resident; death and dying

Upon successful completion of the course, students may apply to take the State Certified Nurse Assistant examination. Once students have passed this exam, they become certified as Nurse Assistants by the State of California.

Certified Nursing Assistant Informational Flyer