Nursing Assistant 1

Course Number:
NUR 90
Transcript Title:
Nursing Assistant 1
Created:
Aug 15, 2022
Updated:
Jul 13, 2023
Total Credits:
7
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture / Lab Hours:
40
Lab Hours:
30
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
No
Grading Options
A-F
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0
Prerequisites

Placement into IRW 115 or WR 115; proof of Measles immunization

Prerequisite/Concurrent 

Current TB test and passing of a criminal background check

Course Description

Identifies the knowledge and skills needed by a nursing assistant to provide safe and effective care to patients in a variety of health care settings. Follows curriculum approved by the Oregon State Board of Nursing in preparation for taking the Oregon certification exam for the nursing assistant. Prerequisites: placement into IRW 115 or WR 115; proof of Measles immunization; Prerequisite/Concurrent: current TB test and passing of a criminal background check.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Identify the members of the healthcare team, their roles and responsibilities.
  2. Describe basic anatomical and physiological changes across the stages of adulthood.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of ethics and client rights when providing client care.
  4. Demonstrate a proficiency in performing authorized duties and skills required of the nursing assistant when caring for a client.
  5. Apply OSHA and client safety standards and use of proper infection control methods in client care situations.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

  • Role play, skills testing, exams
  • Skills checklist
  • BLS/AED American Heart Healthcare Certification completion

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

Outcome #1: Identify the members of the healthcare team, their roles and responsibilities.

  • Recognize the different positions in health care.
  • Practice communication with others on health care team:
    • Accepting assignment
    • Handling off care/giving report to another health care member
    • Documentation of care
  • Communication and Interpersonal skills as part of the team.
    • List characteristics of professionals
    • Describe listening techniques
    • Non-verbal communication/body language
    • Cultural responsiveness, a process that involves the integration of knowledge attitudes and skills that enhance cross-cultural communication and foster meaningful respectful interactions with others
    • Barriers to communication

Outcome #2: Describe basic anatomical and physiological changes across the stages of adulthood.

  • Changes in vital signs, fatigue, body temperature responses
  • Skin tone, elasticity, rebound, fragile tissue
  • Response for fluid needs
  • Vision change
  • Hearing
  • Bowel and bladder control
  • Nutritional needs
  • Response to verbal communication,
  • Joint injuries, mobility, risk for falls
  • Response to pain, applying heat vs cold, positioning
  • Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
  • Dementia

Outcome #3: Demonstrate knowledge of ethics and client rights when providing client care.

  • Professional boundaries.
  • Confidentiality Privacy and HIPAA
  • Mandatory reporting: Abuse, Neglect, Misappropriation
  • Components of cultural responsiveness and cultural awareness individual rights.

Outcome #4: Demonstrate a proficiency in performing authorized duties and skills required of the nursing assistant when caring for a client.

  • Skills for personal care and ADLs
  • Tracking individual’s nutrition and hydration
  • Vital signs
  • Comfort measures
  • Medications
  • Individuals sleep needs
  • Safety
  • Entertainment and activities

Outcome #5: Apply OSHA and client safety standards and use of proper infection control methods in client care situations.

  • Review OSHA regulations for long term care
  • Safe transfers and body mechanics
  • Use safe handling devices: gait belts, mechanical lifts, sit to stand
  • Positioning
  • Demonstrate use of personal protective equipment (Mask gown goggles and gloves).
  • Demonstrate hand hygiene, soap and alcohol based hand rub and describes appropriate uses.
  • Describes the chain of infection
  • Care for the person’s environment utilizing enhanced barrier precautions and standard
  • Understand communicable and infectious diseases types of transmission and associated precautions.
  • Handle and dispose of hazardous waste and contaminated materials.
  • Environmental safety: fire and electrical safety
  • Preventing elopement.

Suggested Texts and Materials

REQUIRED

  • ReadyCNA; Cinematic Health - Instruction to access the online materials will be provided during orientation for the courses after enrollment.