HLTH7000 - Certified Nurse Aide (Acute Care)
Course Description
Our approach to teaching CNA includes Hawaiiana and gardening using a hybrid model with online and face-to-face components. Students will achieve a level of knowledge, skills and abilities essential to provide basic care to ill and disabled persons. Skills are listed below. Teaching methodologies include lecture, lab and supervised clinical hours in a long-term care facility. In Hawaii, cultural understanding in the healthcare setting promotes holistic healing--a balance of mind, body and soul promotes positive outcomes for the patient and caregiver.
Upon successful completion of the course and clinical hours students will be awarded a Certificate of Professional Development which will allow them to take the State of Hawaii Nurse Assistant Competency Evaluation examination with Prometric to become a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA).
This is a 150-hour hybrid course, with scheduled meeting times on Zoom. Students will also work on course assignments in their own time.
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT COURSE PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS: Monday, January 9, 2023
REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY
- Active email address per participant (no sharing)
- Desktop computer or laptop computer with camera, microphone & speaker for video conferencing
- Access to high speed internet (min. 512k)
- Zoom app
- Most recent updated browsers
Online Instruction
Introduction to Clinical Skills and Patient Care, includes Introduction to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing and Kupuna Care for Nurse Aides.
Meets: Real-time online, Monday (in-person), Tuesday and Wednesday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, using Zoom and in-class labs.
Students are also responsible for independent learning outside of scheduled class meeting time. Laptop loaners may be available upon request.
Clinical Practicum
Meets: On-site, 6 days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 5:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Course Outline
Our approach to teaching CNA includes Hawaiiana and gardening using a hybrid model with online and face-to-face components. Students will achieve a level of knowledge, skills and abilities essential to provide basic care to ill and disabled persons. Skills are listed below. Teaching methodologies include lecture, lab and supervised clinical hours in a long-term care facility.Learner Outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to demonstrate:
- Effective communication with patients, supervising nurses, doctors, and other nursing assistants
- Proper infection control procedures including hand washing and patient hygiene
- Safety and emergency procedure including fire safety, daily patient safety procedures, and the Heimlich maneuver
- Advocacy of patient’s rights
- Caring for the aged in a practical setting
- Appropriate conduct including language and dress with supervising nurse, families, and other nursing assistants within multicultural settings in Hawaii
- Taking and recording vital signs
- Measuring and recording height and weight
- Caring for the residents’ environment
- Recognizing abnormal changes in body functioning and the importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor
- Caring for patients when death is imminent
- Bathing the patient
- Grooming and hygiene including mouth care
- Dressing
- Toileting
- Assisting the patient with eating and hydration
- Proper feeding techniques
- Skin Care
- Transfers, positioning, and turning
- Training the patient in self care according to the patient’s abilities
- Use of assistive devices in transferring, ambulation, eating and dressing
- Maintenance of range of motion
- Proper turning and positioning in bed and chair
- Bowel and bladder training
- Care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices
Notes
Prior to the start of the course you will need to apply and interview for a job as an Acute Care Nurse Aide at Adventist Health Castle. Deadline to apply is December 15, 2022. Upon successful interview and completion of the Windward CC CNA training you will train as an Acute Care Nurse Aide at Adventist Health Castle in Kailua, Oahu.Prerequisites
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. Physical examination,
2. Two-step TB skin test,
3. MMR immunizations,
4. Must be vaccinated for COVID-19,
5. Criminal background check,
6. Math/Reading Placement Test,
7. Personal computer/tablet and access to high speed Internet access (Laptop loaners may be available upon request)
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT ALL DOCUMENTS: Monday, January 9, 2023
Please contact wcccna@hawaii.edu for assistance with these documents.