| State-approved training
curriculum for nursing assistants It
is widely known that the long term care industry has one of the highest employee turnover
rates of any profession. Recognizing the critical staffing issues long term care managers
face, the Institute offers the Nursing Assistant Training Program, an 18-day, 126-hour
curriculum that prepares individuals for employment in the long term care industry and
addresses the most common barriers to the recruitment and retention of qualified
caregivers.
The Institute's program is
designed to achieve the following goals:
 | Introduce participants to work rules
and expectations within the healthcare industry |
| Help participants develop a positive work ethic that includes self-reliance,
personal initiative, and self-confidence |
| Improve participants' communication and customer service skills with co-workers
and clients for whom they care |
| Improve interaction with supervisors and authority figures |
| Enable participants to develop and practice problem-solving, decision-making and
organizational skills |
| Deliver competency-based instruction to prepare for the state competency
examination |
| Enhance quality care and increase retention of
frontline caregivers |
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Training Syllabus
The curriculum acclimates students to the healthcare
environment and broadens their understanding of the professional, social and behavioral skills they need to
succeed in their employment. Key Culture Change Principles of
Empowerment, Choice, Community, Respect and Relationships are interwoven
throughout the curriculum. Competency-based classroom and clinical
instruction includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Role & Function of the Nursing Assistant
- Safety & Accident Prevention
- Communication Skills - Effective Listening, Managing Conflict
- Residents' Rights, HIPAA
- Abuse-Free Resident Care
- Infection Control
- Restorative Nursing - Ambulation, Transfer & Bed Mobility,
Toileting, Range of Motion, ADLs,...
- Documentation
- Psychosocial Needs
- Personal Care Skills - Bathing, Hair Care, Nail Care, Shaving,
Mouth Care, Dressing, Toileting, Catheter Care, Bed Making,...
- Skin Care, Pressure Ulcers, Skin Tears, Preventive
Measures & Devices
- Positioning
- Mobility - Transferring & Ambulating, Wheelchairs,
Lifts, Fall Prevention
- Nutrition & Special Diets
- Basic Nursing Skills, Vital Signs
- Cognitive Impairment & Managing Difficult Behaviors
- Aging Process - Review of Body Systems
- Dying & Post-Mortem Care
- Resident Assignments (beginning with one and working up to four residents per
student)
- Debriefing and Skills Review (after each day of clinical experience)
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