Foundations of Nursing Assistant Care
Nursing Assistant Training Curriculum
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, a 20-day, 136-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 Curriculum 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
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 Respect,
Empowerment, Community, Relationships, and Choice 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)
Long term care providers may purchase the Institute's
full Instructional Resource Binder. The Instructor's
Binder includes:
- Course Outline & Instructional Guidance for Conducting
136 Combined Hours of Instruction (37 hrs. Classroom,
41 hrs. Laboratory and 58 hrs. Clinical) -- based on
Pennsylvania's regulatory requirements governing State-Approved
Nurse Assistant Training Programs
- Nursing Assistant Trainee Learning Objectives
- Competencies Checklist
- Master Skills Checklist
- Step-by-Step Instructions for Demonstration/Return
Demonstration of more than 100 Caregiving Tasks
- Course Quizzes and Answer Keys
- Student Textbook
Foundations of Nursing Assistant
Training student textbooks can be purchased
individually for use in conducting training.
Instructional Guide with
Teaching Resources Item Code: FDNA-T
Student Textbook Item Code: FDNA-S
Download Order Form [PDF
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