HCCC1100 Nursing Assistant Skills
This course focuses on the skills needed to successfully care for residents in a multitude of health care settings. This course includes, but is not limited to, the following skills for providing a resident care: personal hygiene, effective communication, safety in transferring and moving, feeding and hydration needs, and monitoring of vital signs. Additional skills in how to recognize resident concerns/problems and report these issues to the charge nurse, and the ability to correctly document cares provided for the resident are included in this course. There are 64 hours of skills training in this course, 40 hours will be in the lab and 24 hours will be at a Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) approved facility. Completion of the seven HCCC courses, plus this Nursing Assistant (NA) skills course prepares the student to take the Nursing Assistant Test Out (NATO) written and skills certification exams. This course must be taken Pass/Fail.
Course Requirements and Evaluation
Refer to Course Syllabus for detailed information regarding the requirements and evaluation standards for this course. The Course Syllabus will be distributed the first week of the course.
Learning Outcomes
The following outcomes will be addressed in the course:
Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate with residents
Demonstrate ability to safely transfer residents
Demonstrate ability to perform personal hygiene cares for residents
Demonstrate ability to correctly don and doff personal protective equipment
Measure and record intake of hydration and output of body fluids of a resident
Measure and record vital signs of a resident
Text and References
A list of textbooks required for this course is available at the
bookstore.
Course Scheduling
The scheduled hours of instruction include sixteen hours for each lecture credit, thirty two hours for each lab credit and forty hours for each credit of supervised occupational experience (SOE). Lecture credit may include formal or impromptu lectures, demonstrations or discussions with the entire class or with small groups or individuals. Refer to the Course Credits section of this course outline for the credit breakdown.
Accommodations Statement
Access Services - Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified students with documented disabilities. Upon attending an intake meeting with Access Services, qualified students will receive a letter listing the approved accommodations that they may provide to their instructors. If you have a documented disability that may require accommodations, contact HTC Access Services at
AccessServices@hennepintech.edu or
https://hennepintech.edu/current-students/access-services/index.html.
Campus
Brooklyn Park Campus and Eden Prairie Campus: 952-995-1300
Credit Details