Start Your Nursing Assistant Career with Dawn Career Institute
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Nursing Assistant
Nursing assistants (NA) help patients with the tasks of everyday living. They play a crucial role for both the health care team and the patient. In cases requiring long-term care, many act as the principal caregiver, develop close personal bonds with the residents and have a positive, caring influence in their patients’ lives.
As demand for qualified nursing assistants continues to grow, it remains one of the most employed and essential health care careers today. When you receive your nursing assistant training from Dawn Career Institute, you will experience qualified instruction from a Registered Nurse, with the medical facilities, equipment and instruments you would find on your first day of work.
In addition, all DCI programs have valuable professional development skills built into the curriculum, including goal setting, resume writing, job search methods, successful interviewing techniques, customer relations, stress management and how to present a professional image.
PROGRAM DETAILS
6
Weeks Program Length
- Certificate Program
- Program Offered: Daytime
- Clock Hours: 140
What Does a Nursing Assistant Do?
If you’re thinking about a nursing assistant job, it is one that is necessary and rewarding. You will be responsible for the following:
- Taking medical histories and recording vital signs
- Serving meals and helping patients eat
- Cleaning and bathing patients
- Helping patients dress
- Assisting patients with toilet facilities
- Turning and repositioning patients in bed
- Recording patient feedback and concerns
- Providing emotional support
Unlike other nursing positions, someone seeking a nursing assistant job doesn’t have to have a bachelor’s degree. However, it is necessary to seek formal training, like the training you can receive at Dawn Career Institute, that can prepare you for the certification exam.
In most cases, nurse assistants will also need to complete short, on-the-job training to learn about their employer’s procedures and policies. If this is the case, the length of the program depends on where the person is hired. The classes provide the basics regarding the demands of the job and can help prepare you for the specific issues you may face at the facility.
Career Advancement Opportunities
With a Dawn Career Institute education, you’ll have opportunities to apply for nursing assistant jobs to some of the most highly sought-after nursing employers in the state. Here are just a few of the companies who have hired our graduates:
- Cadia Healthcare
- Manor Care
- Homewatch Healthcare Givers
- Bayada
- Churchmans’s Village
- Kentmere Rehab and Healthcare Center
Careers in Focus: Nursing Assistant
Swipe through our infographic to find out what you’ll do, where you’ll work and the career opportunity for Nursing Assistants!
Additional Information
Graduates of DCI’s Nursing Assistant program are eligible to apply to take:
Delaware Certified Nursing Assistant Competency Exam, through DLTCRP, Delaware Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection
*The cost of the first attempt for the certification exam listed above is included as part of the tuition for the DCI NA program. In the event the first attempt is not successful, the cost for any additional attempts is the responsibility of the graduate.
Certification and licensing requirements vary by state. Visit the following sites, or contact your state CNA certification board for more information.
http://www.nursinglicensure.org/cna/delaware-nursing-assistant.html#context/api/listings/prefilter
http://www.nursinglicensure.org/cna/maryland-nursing-assistant.html#context/api/listings/prefilter
http://www.nursinglicensure.org/cna/new-jersey-nursing-assistant.html#context/api/listings/prefilter
Anatomy & Physiology (NA w/limited Med. Term)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Diversity Training
Introduction to Nursing Assisting
Long Term Care & The Nursing Assistant’s Role
Foundations of Resident Care / Resident’s Rights
Understanding Your Residents
Body Systems (Basic Anatomy)
Personal Care
Basic Nursing Assisting
Skills Lab
Caring for Yourself
Home Health Nursing
Common, Chronic & Acute Conditions
Basic Restorative Care
Clinical Rotation in a local long-term care facility
Professional Development
Dawn Career Institute is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC). The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) is a recognized accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation is the student’s best assurance that a school meets national standards of educational performance. Accreditation has become the most authoritative and reliable index of a school’s concern for integrity toward its students. When you attend an ACCSC-accredited institution, you are attending a school that has undergone a rigorous process that evaluates educational quality.
$3,213 for tuition and fees
*The amounts shown above include costs for the entire program, assuming normal time to completion.
Note that this information is subject to change.
