Basic Nursing Assistant School in Park Ridge, IL

BASIC NURSING ASSISTANT TRAINING (BNAT, 51.3902)

Description:
Clock Hours: 120 Hours
Theory/Lab/Clinical: 80/0/40

This 5 week program meets the requirements of the Illinois Nursing Reform Act of 1979 and leads to certification of compliance from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). The BNATP prepares students into their roles and responsibilities as nurse assistants in both the clinical and home setting. Through lecture/discussion, supervised laboratory and actual clinical experience, students acquire knowledge and skills needed to provide basic nursing care for residents of long-term care facilities as well as patients in hospitals, private homes, or other health care facilities. Upon successful completion of this program, students take the Illinois Nurse Aide Competency Examination administered by Southern Illinois University of Carbondale.

Specific Admission Requirements:

1. Applicants must at least be 16 years old upon enrollment.
2. A reading comprehension of 10th grade level is necessary.
3. A valid Social Security Number
4. A physical examination by a licensed physician, which includes TB tests, is required before a student can start clinical classes.
5. The required Criminal Background Check (Fingerprint) will be initiated by Career Options with the IL State Police at the beginning of the training in compliance with the Health Care Worker Background Check Act.
6. Clinical training entails lifting, direct contact with patients and other activities that may cause harm or injury on the student. Each student is responsible for acquiring and maintaining the necessary insurance coverage throughout his/her enrollment in the program.

Potential Places of Employment:

Physicians’ offices, clinics, hospitals, diagnostic centers, home health agencies, home care and long term care facilities

Certification Requirement:

A student shall be considered to have successfully completed the BNATP when he or she has:

1. Completed a minimum of 80 hours of theory and 40 hours of clinical instruction, including the required hours of content in accordance with Section 395.150; and
2. Demonstrated competence in the Department-approved performance skills.
3. A student shall pass the Department-established written competency examination.
   (Source:  Amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 10546, effective June 27, 2013)

Students who have successfully completed the program are able to perform the following minimum 21 skills:

1. Wash hands
2. Shaving a Resident
3. Perform Perineal Care
4. Give a shower or Tub Bath
5. Dress a Resident
6. Transfer Using a Mechanical Lift
7. Feed a Resident
8. Place resident in side-lying position
9. Apply and Remove Personal Protective Equipment
10. Measure and Record Blood Pressure
11. Measure Height
12. Perform Oral hygiene
13. Perform Nail Care
14. Give Partial bath
15. Make Occupied bed
16. Transfer resident to Wheelchair using a Transfer belt
17. Ambulate with Transfer Belt
18. Calculate intake/output
19. Perform Passive Range of Motion
20. Measure and Record Temperature, Pulse and Respiration
21. Measure weight

Per IDPH directive Career Options, Inc. will have the following list of skills added to the above 21 skills being evaluated:

• Hair Care
• Care of Hearing Aid
• Transporting resident in a Wheelchair
• Serving Meals
• Assist Resident in Toiletting
• Applying TED Hose
• Care of Eyeglasses
• Care of Dentures
• Assisting Resident with use of Walker or Cane
• Answering Call Lights
• Making Unoccupied bed
• Applying Non-skid Footwear

General Program Objectives/Outcomes:

At the end of the program the graduate of Career Options BNAT will:

1. Describe the purposes and services of health care facilities/agencies, which include, but are not limited to, the following health care settings.
2. Understands her/his role as a CNA in the interdisciplinary team including the scope of practice and its limitations
3. Manifest person-directed qualities by being an effective communicator utilizing appropriate interpersonal communication techniques whether verbal or written.
4. Understand and respect resident rights including concepts of neglect and abuse and comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
5. Proficiently address and effectively provide for client’s or resident’s Activities of Living (ADL’s) including rehabilitation concepts necessary to promote self-independence and a sense of well-being.
6. Understands the different needs of the residents/clients across the health continuum as they undergo physiological, psychological, social-cultural and spiritual changes.
7. Effectively and continuously provide safety in all aspects of care particularly in the implementation of infection control practices and prevention of injuries.
8. Be able to carry out basic emergency measures as needed.
9. Be responsible for promotion and maintenance of her/his own well being needed to carry out the daily tasks included in the CNA responsibilities

Course Outline as adapted from IDPH Model Program

Module I – Introduction to Health Care

1. Functions of Health Care Organizations.
2. Understanding the CNA role in The Interdisciplinary Team
3. The CNA across different Health Care Settings
4. The responsibilities of a Nursing Assistant as a Para-professional certified under the State and Federal regulations
5. Information sharing and HIPAA regulations including legal aspects of recording in the health care record.

Module II – Resident Rights and Relationships

1. Identify and discuss the importance of State and federal regulations in promoting resident rights and how it enhances resident/client quality of life.
2. Holistic Care – Understand and explain the importance and describe the components of holistic care.
3. Understanding the elements of communication and learning to assume an active role in promoting client/team relationships through effective and therapeutic communication

Module III – Infection Control in the Health Care Setting

1. Infection Control Issues – understanding the process of infection and implementing measures to prevent infection.

Module IV – Emergency Procedures

1. Fire Safety.  – understand and explain the elements that can cause fire, its prevention and basic emergency steps to follow in case of fire
2. Other disasters – Describe appropriate actions of the CNA in response to natural disasters according to the emergency plan established by the facility
3. Discuss ways of providing safety and preventing injury when caring for the resident
4. Following protocols of the facility for reporting of an incident.

Module V – Injury Prevention in the Health Care Environment

1. Risk Management.  – Explain and discuss State and federal regulations: pertaining to injury
2. Discuss the role of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in relation to injury prevention; and
3. Explain the purpose of the Material Safety Data Sheets;
4. Explain and discuss importance of ergonomics to the health care worker by demonstrating consistent use of body mechanics while providing care
5. Understanding the use of a assistive equipments to ensure body mechanics
6. Involvement in establishing risk factors such as those causing falls or skin tissue injuries
7. Understand the facilities policies on the use of restraints

Module VI – Care of the Resident

1. Identify and discuss provision of living space and equipments that contributes to residents comfort, well being, safety and privacy
2. Develop skills appropriate for the Residents/clients Activities of Daily Living
3. Understanding the processes involved in admission, transfer and discharge of resident/clients in a facility or home setting.
4. Development of skills necessary in identifying resident/clients needs utilizing the concept of nursing process.
5. Understanding the resident/client as a human organism composed of tissues, organs and systems and the common health problems that could affect them.

Module VII – Fundamentals of Rehabilitation/Restorative Care

1. Understands the CNA’s role in caring for the person using an adaptive device, including importance, care-giving modification, observations, reporting and documentation.

Module VIII – End-of-Life Care

1. Develop skills and caring attitude towards End-of-Life Issues.
2. Understanding legal issues associated with end-of-life care such as
3. Advance Directives, Hospice Care, Care of a dying person and the grieving process.

Module IX – Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

1. Recognize the difference between normal aging and dementias.
2. Discuss care for residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease.
3. Promote and maintain therapeutic environment in the care of residents with Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Disease
   (Source:  Amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 10546, effective June 27, 2013)

The 5 week program is scheduled as follows:

16 hours of theory with skills lab and 8 hours of clinical practice per week for 5 weeks

Textbooks/Workbook

Pearson’s Nursing Assistant Today by F. Wogin,J. French and K. Smith

Additional Materials:

Trainex audio visual DVD’s
Acetates for use with Overhead Projectors
Power Point presentations using link from a publishing company
Other Internet source related to the classroom topic

Program Cost Full Assessment: