Course Competency 1: Communicate professionally within a healthcare setting

Learning Objectives:

• Interact with clients, families and co-workers
• Display appropriate verbal and nonverbal skills in the work setting
• Establish a therapeutic relationship with clients, families, and co-workers
• Respond to clients that exhibit problematic behavior
• Respond to aggressive behavior
• Establish working relationship with supervisors and peers following the chain of command
• Demonstrate reporting and documentation
• Assist client to meet spiritual needs
• Adapt care/communication to meet the psychological needs of the aging client
• Demonstrate sensitivity to emotional needs, social diversity, and mental health of clients, families, and coworkers
• Apply strategies to cope with client and family stress
• Accept constructive feedback

Course Competency 2: Demonstrate professionalism in the workplace

Learning Objectives:

• Function within and uphold the ethical and legal responsibilities of the Nursing Assistant
• Carry out assignments
• Develop job seeking and keeping skills
• Protect rights of clients
• Treat client respectfully regardless of social, ethnic, or religious background
• Apply strategies to cope with caregiver stress
• Differentiate the nursing assistant role in a variety of health care settings

Course Competency 3: Maintain a safe healthcare environment

Learning Objectives:

• Maintain a safe, clean, comfortable, therapeutic environment
• Respond appropriately in emergency situations
• Perform airway clearance maneuver
• Apply principles of body mechanics
• Demonstrate safe use and maintenance of equipment and supplies

Course Competency 4: Adhere to principles of infection control

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate principles of medical asepsis for client and personal safety.
• Demonstrate principles of standard and transmission-based precautions and infection prevention
• Demonstrate prevention of blood borne pathogen transmission

Course Competency 5: Provide for personal care needs of clients

Learning Objectives: 

• Provide for personal grooming and hygiene
• Assist with nutrition and fluid needs
• Assist client with bowel and bladder elimination
• Maintain a urinary catheter
• Assist client with bowel and bladder retraining
• Make an occupied and unoccupied bed

Course Competency 6: Provide for basic nursing care needs

Learning Objectives:

• Carry out the basic nursing skills required for the nursing assistant
• Adapt care to meet the physical needs of the aging client
• Apply heat and cold applications
• Apply nonprescription (OTC) medications
• Define the principles of nutrition and fluid needs
• Provide client comfort measures
• Assist with end-of-life care for the dying client
• Assist with post-mortem care
• Recognize the general effects of prescribed routine medications

Course Competency 7: Demonstrate reporting and documentation of client data

Learning Objectives:

• Measure intake and output
• Measure temperature, pulse, and respiration
• Measure weight and height
• Recognize normal and abnormal blood pressure readings
• Identify normal and abnormal vital signs
• Document client data
• Prioritize the reporting of data
• Recognize signs of client discomfort

Course Competency 8: Utilize principles of mobility to assist clients

Learning Objectives:

• Examine types and uses of restraining devices
• Use restraint alternatives
• Assist with moving or positioning a client
• Promote joint mobility, body alignment, and activity
• Assist with ambulation
• Use client transfer techniques
• Apply prosthetic and orthotic devices

Course Competency 9: Promote independence through rehabilitation/restorative care

Learning Objectives:

• Assist client with range of motion exercises
• Promote client independence during activities of daily living (ADL)
• Assist clients with hearing or vision impairment with activities of daily living
• Assist clients with speech impairment with activities of daily living
• Assist with restorative therapies

Course Competency 10: Provide care for clients experiencing acute and chronic health conditions

Learning Objectives:

• Care for client with developmental disabilities
• Care for clients with long-term, disabling conditions including dementia
• Assist clients with dementia through environment and activities
• Manage stressful situations with clients with dementia
• Provide food and fluid intake monitoring and interventions for clients with dementia
• Manage behavioral challenges of clients with dementia
• Demonstrate sensitivity to emotional needs, social diversity, and mental health of clients
• Respond to psycho-social needs of clients

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