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May 02, 2024
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Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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NURS 109 Nursing Assistant Practicum3 credits
This course will give students an opportunity to integrate the learning from Nursing Assistant Theory and Lab skills into the clinical environment caring for healthcare clients. Students will demonstrate safe client care through performance of nursing assistant skills in a healthcare environment. These skills include: infection control, vital sign measurement, safe transfer, ambulation and positioning and feeding patients. In addition the students will demonstrate accurate documenting, reporting and communication skills.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission required
Corequisites: NURS 107 and NURS 108
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Perform personal care for at least one client
- Perform therapeutic communication with a culturally diverse population
- Perform appropriate infection control procedures
- Perform observation, reporting, and documentation skills
- Perform proper and accurate measurement of vital signs, height and weight for the long term care client population
- Perform proper body mechanics
- Perform appropriate response to emergency situations
- Perform beginning documentation of care
- Identify Patient Care Plan and implement procedures as delegated by the supervising nurse
Total Hours: 60 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 60
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