HEOP 1243 — – Nursing Assistant Comprehensive
Prerequisite: none Corequisite: none This course will introduce concepts of basic human needs, the health/illness continuum, and basic nursing skills, along with providing clinical experience working with patients. Students will learn theory; lab and clinical aspects of the nursing assistant role, including skills demonstrations; supervised lab practice; and an orientation to clinical settings. This course includes 20 hours of clinical care of selected adult patients in a long-term care setting. Upon successful completion of this course students are eligible to take the Minnesota Competency Evaluation for Nursing Assistants. Students successfully completing this examination are placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry. Transfer Curriculum Goal(s): none