Summary
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Hands-on training and lab simulations
- Morning, afternoon, evening, and weekend classes available
- Ongoing enrollment
- 100 Externship hours included in the program
Nurse Assistant Training Program
At U.S. Colleges, we offer a comprehensive Nurse Assistant Training Program that is designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge, and hands-on training you need to be successful in your new role as a nurse assistant. With 60 hours of classroom time, 32 hours in the lab, and 100 hours at an externship site, you will be properly prepared and ready for your new career.
About the Nurse Assistant Training Program
Our nurse assistant training program is specially designed to help guide our students and prepare them for day one and the rest of their career upon graduation. Throughout our program, students will learn the basic duties and responsibilities of the nursing assistant, including patient rights, vital signs, nutrition, emergency procedures, long-term care, and more. From admission to discharging of the patient, you will have a good understanding of everything that needs to take place and the steps to make them happen.
Summary
- Duration: 5 Weeks
- Hands-on training and lab simulations
- Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Weekend Classes Available
- Ongoing Enrollment
- 100 Externship hours included in the program
Career Outcomes
The training and skills you will learn in the Nurse Assistant Training Program will prepare you for a variety of entry-level roles. You may find yourself working in a variety of settings to include the hospital, urgent care center, doctor’s office, or clinic. Nurse Assistants are needed all over and are in-demand in the healthcare field.
- Nursing Assistant
- Home Health Aid
Available at the following campuses
About This Program
In this program, you will learn all the skills, terminology, and techniques needed to be successful throughout the program and when you graduate. In our Nurse Assistant Training Program, you will learn a variety of concepts and skills for nursing assistants. Each one of the subjects includes either classroom hours, lab hours, clinical hours, or a combination.
As a student in our Nursing Assistant Training Program, you will receive classroom and theory hours, lab hours, and 100 externship hours at a clinical facility. Throughout your time in our program, you will learn many skills from proper body mechanics to emergency procedures, and rehabilitative nursing.
Find an example program outline of the classes you can expect to take in this program.
Course Titles
Hours
Introduction
2
Patients’ Rights
6
Interpersonal Skills
4
Prevention and Management of Catastrophe & Unusual Occurrence
4
Body Mechanics
4
Medical and Surgical Asepsis; Infection Control
12
Weights and Measures
2
Patient Care Skills
58
Patient Care Procedures
31
Vital Signs
11
Nutrition
10
Emergency Procedures
5
Long Term Care Patient
11
Rehabilitative Nursing
8
Observation and Charting
8
Death and Dying
4
Abuse
8
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