Nursing Assistant
Technical Diploma - 3 credits
30-543-1
CONTACT
Academic Advisor: Connie Gensler
Advising/Registration Office
University Transfer Center - Room 212
Phone: 715-365-4493 or 365-4501
Email: cgensler@nicoletcollege.edu
The nursing assistant is a vital member of the health care team. The nursing assistant carries out assigned duties under the direction of the professional nurse. Responsibilities include bathing, dressing, toileting, assisting with feeding, taking vital signs, ambulating, lifting and moving clients, and performing other selected nursing procedures.
About the Program
The instructional program for the Nursing Assistant/Long Term Care diploma consists of lecture with laboratory practice and supervised
clinical experience in local health care facilities. This program is approved by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
as a nurse aide training and competency evaluation program. The diploma is granted for successful completion of 120 hours of instruction. Additional options are available which the student may choose depending on the type of health care facility in which the student wishes to seek employment. (See course descriptions for explanations.)
The instructional program for the Nursing Assistant/Acute Care diploma may be taken after successful completion of the Long Term Care diploma. This is a 60-hour course of instruction in intermediate level nursing assistant skills which prepares the graduate for employment in hospital settings.
Nursing assistants are employed in long-term care facilities, hospitals, community-based residential facilities, and home health agencies.
Program Outcomes
- Demonstrate caring and respectful communication as a nursing assistant
- Practice as a nursing assistant collaboratively
- Demonstrate accountability in the role of the nursing assistant
- Demonstrate standard safety practices and procedures as a nursing assistant
- Incorporate critical thinking in the role of the nursing assistant
- Prioritize the care of groups of clients among multiple competing demands as a nursing assistant
- Work according to state and federal regulations in the role of the nursing assistant
- Demonstrate basic nursing skills as a nursing assistant
- Demonstrate personal care skills as a nursing assistant
- Document care given and report findings in the role of the nursing assistant
