Nursing Assistant

This course prepares students for employment as nursing assistants, nursing aides, and orderlies, in nursing home or extend care facilities. The nursing assistant assists the nursing team in bathing, dressing, feeding, ambulating, and transporting residents. They also assist with meeting the physical and emotional needs of residents. The Nursing Assistant Program is an opportunity to learn skills and prepare for a career in the health field.

Home Health Aide

This course trains home health aides to help elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons live in their own homes instead of in a health care facility. Under the direction of nursing or medical staff, they provide health-related services, such as administering oral medications. Home health aides may check patients’ pulse rate, temperature, and respiration rate; help with simple prescribed exercises; keep patients’ rooms neat; and help patients to move from bed, bathe, dress, and groom. Most home health aides work with elderly or disabled persons who need more extensive care than family or friends can provide. Some help discharged hospital patients who have relatively short-term needs.

Patient Care Assistant

This course providing direct and indirect non-professional nursing care or outreach services in a clinic, hospital, or institution under nursing or medical supervision. This includes performing duties such as taking vital signs, obtaining lab specimens, charting, escorting patients, assisting with activities of daily living, and ordering and receiving supplies.

If you have a genuine desire to help people, are willing to accept delegated tasks, and work as part of a team, a career as a patient care associate may be for you. This field of work also serves as a stepping-stone for further education in nursing or health occupations.

Lindsey Hopkins Technical Education Center Nursing Assistant program is endorsed by the Florida Board of Nursing Our program prepares the students for national certification examination being utilized in Florida, in accordance with Chapter 82-163, F.S

PURPOSE: This program is designed to prepare the student to care for patient in the nursing homes, and in the patient’s home and hospitals, clinics and institutions.

PROGRAM DELIVERY: This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of theory, laboratory, and clinical experiences. The following are the course offerings:

Course 

·          Health Careers Core

·          Nursing Assistant              

·          Home Health Aide              

·          Patient Care Assistant 

ENTRANCE/CLINICAL NEEDS:

·          Basic Skills Test

·          Complete program paperwork

·          Complete Physical Assessment prior to entry 

LENGTH OF PROGRAM:

315 Hours Approximately 4 Months 

TIME:

Classroom hours 8:00 AM– 2:30 PM. M – F

Clinical hours       7:00 AM – 1:30 PM M – F 

UNIFORMS:

Students are required to wear the official school Uniform during the entire program (Class and Clinical) 

TRANSPORTATION:

Students must provide their own transportation to and from the campus as well as all clinical settings

LABORATORY/ CLINICAL ACTIVITIES: Students utilize campus skills labs, computer labs and the Human Patient Simulator to practice program skills. Approximately one-half of the program is spent in clinical learning experiences correlating theory instructional and laboratory practice. 

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE: After successful completion of this approved program, students are eligible to take the Florida State Nursing Assistant Certification Examination. 

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