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Aug 31, 2024
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HSC 182 - Advanced Nurse Aide Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 3 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Voc/Tech A continuation of the Nurse Aide course, providing additional skills and clinical to work in hospital. Prerequisite: HSC 172 or a State-approved 75-hour nurse aide class; Criminal/Abuse background check; Physical and Immunization form as required by clinical site; Flu vaccine-October through April; CPR certification. See the DMACC website for more information Competencies
- Compare the hospital (acute) care facility with long term care facility
- List the purposes of acute care hospitals
- Discuss different methods of organizing nursing care in acute care hospitals
- Identify new skills you will need to work as a nurse aide in acute care
- Communicate effectively in acute care setting
- Discuss ethical/legal role of nurse aide in acute care
- Provide safe nursing care in acute care setting
- Explain correct procedure for admitting a patient
- List six rules to follow in taking care of a patient’s valuables
- Correctly transfer a patient
- Explain correct procedure for discharging a patient
- Review methods for infection control
- Safely use isolation techniques when required
- Encourage the patient to follow diet requirements
- Care for patients on special units
- Provide basic pre-operative care
- Provide safe post-operative care
- Recognize how care may change because of patient’s age and condition
- Provide/assist with special procedures
- Safely administer enemas
- Collect specimen for testing as directed
- Safely administer heat and cold applications as ordered
- Provide care for the patient with an orthopedic condition
- Recognize emergency situations and describe the nurse aide’s role in an emergency
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