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AHN 100 - Nursing Assistant Theory and Practice I
This course is designed to enable the student to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to function as a nursing assistant in a long-term-care nursing facility in accordance with regulatory guidelines established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Function as a nursing assistant within the legal and ethical standards described by the profession of nursing as regulated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills as an integral function of the nursing assistant role.
- Apply the basic principles of infection control.
- Demonstrate the application of concepts of basic emergency procedures.
- Describe the behavior involved in providing/maintaining the rights of the resident.
- Demonstrate behaviors and skills that promote the resident’s independence.
- Describe the responsibilities of the nursing assistant in addressing the nutritional needs of the resident. Recognize abnormal signs and symptoms of common diseases and conditions.
- Provide for a safe clean environment.
- Demonstrate basic nursing skills needed to meet the resident’s health and personal care requirements as directed by the licensed nurse.
- Provide care to resident when death is imminent.
- Demonstrate skills that incorporate principles of restorative care under the direction of a licensed nurse.
- Demonstrate basic skills required to identify psychosocial needs and special problems of the nursing facility or health care agency population with disorders affecting mental and physical functioning.
- Demonstrate skills required to identify psychosocial needs for residents who are cognitively impaired.
Prerequisite: High school diploma or GED. Students must meet DCCC clinical and physical program requirements.
30 hours lecture, 22.5 hours laboratory, 37.5 hours clinical 4 credits