Examples of a job you may be qualified for after completion of this program:
- Nursing Assistant $22,439-31,493
Salary information is based on hourly, monthly, or annual estimates from the State of California Employment Development Department.
260 hours. Complete in 8 to 18 weeks.
Be trained to provide care to those who are unable to care for themselves. Through lecture and hands-on skills practice, you learn to bathe, dress, feed, and assist patients with toileting as well as report changes in a patient’s physical or mental status to the supervising nurse. You will learn:
- Professionalism and ethics
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Patients’ rights and independence
- Rehabilitative/restorative care
- Medical/surgical asepsis and standard procedures
- Emergency procedures and prevention of catastrophe
- Resident care skills and procedures
- Body mechanics and nutrition
- Vital signs, weights, and measures
- Observation and charting
- Long term care resident
- Death and dying