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Nursing Assistant
Certificate
Nursing and psychiatric aides help care for physically or mentally ill, injured, disabled, or infirm individuals in hospitals, nursing care facilities, and mental health settings. Nursing aides and home health aides are among the occupations commonly referred to as direct care workers, due to their role in working with patients who need long-term care. The specific care they give depends on their specialty.
Otero Junior College, in cooperation with area hospitals, offers a one semester nursing assistant program to prepare students to work in nursing assistants positions. Interested students should contact the Student Services Center for additional information.
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Program Description
This program complies with the Colorado State Board of Nursing rules for Certified Nurse aide education, training and practice. Students who complete this 2 course program successfully are eligible to apply for State Nurse Aide Certification. This program is offered in accelerated and extended formats.
Additional Course Information
Nursing aides, also known as nurse aides, nursing assistants, certified nursing assistants, geriatric aides, unlicensed assistive personnel, orderlies, or hospital attendants, provide hands-on care and perform routine tasks under the supervision of nursing and medical staff. Specific tasks vary, with aides handling many aspects of a patient's care. They often help patients to eat, dress, and bathe. They also answer calls for help, deliver messages, serve meals, make beds, and tidy up rooms. Aides sometimes are responsible for taking a patient's temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, or blood pressure. They also may help provide care to patients by helping them get out of bed and walk, escorting them to operating and examining rooms, or providing skin care. Some aides help other medical staff by setting up equipment, storing and moving supplies, and assisting with some procedures. Aides also observe patients' physical, mental, and emotional conditions and report any change to the nursing or medical staff.
Gainful Employment: Nursing Assistant as a Career.
According to College in Colorado.org, this career is in the Health Science cluster and the Therapeutic Services pathway in the Colorado Career Cluster Model ~
College in Colorado: Nursing Assistant
More about Nursing Assistants at U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics ~
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Find out more about Nursing and Medical Careers at O Net Online ~
25-1071 - Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
29-2041 - Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
31-9092 - Medical Assistants
31-1012 - Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
29-2061 - Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION
The US Department of Education requires colleges to disclose a variety of information for any financial aid eligible program that “prepares students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation”. The information provided here is the best available to us but represents one year’s data only, however, we hope that this information is helpful to our current students and to prospective students as they make their career and educational choices.
If you have any questions regarding the data provided and what it means to you as a student, please feel free to contact OJC Student Services.
For more information on Gainful Employment requirements, please click here.
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