- Dawn Career Institute - Newark, DE
NURSING ASSISTANT
DCI's student-centered Nursing Assistant program prepares you for your entry into the healthcare field!
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We're Focused on YOUR Success as a DCI Nursing Assistant Student
The Nursing Assistant certificate program at Dawn Career Institute is designed for students seeking training to become Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA). Classroom instruction is provided along with hands-on, practical skills including anatomy and physiology, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and professional career and development courses. This program prepares graduates to sit for the Delaware State Nursing Assistant Certification Examination and for an entry-level position as a nursing assistant.
In addition, as a Nursing Assistant student, you’ll participate in a clinical learning experience at an approved nursing facility under the supervision of an instructor to prepare you with the on-the-job skills you’ll need as part of the healthcare team!
PROGRAM FAST FACTS
- 6 Weeks Program Length
- Graduates earn a certificate
- Day classes offered
- Small class sizes with one-to-one instruction
- Clinical held in actual medical facilities
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Prepare for the DE State
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Why Choose DCI?
- Industry-modeled Training
Dawn Career Institute combines qualified instruction with the medical facilities, equipment, and instruments you would find on your first day of work. Our Nursing Assistant instructors are licensed and experienced. Students benefit from the practical knowledge and skill instructors bring from the healthcare field.
- Clinical Experience With Actual Patients
As a student in our Nursing Assistant program, you’ll participate in a clinical experience where you’ll work onsite at an approved nursing facility under the supervision of an instructor.
- Professional Development
The Nursing Assistant program includes 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.
- Certifications
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
- Accreditation
National Level
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.
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What Does an Nursing Assistant Do?
Nursing assistants (NA) help patients with the tasks of everyday living. Their role is crucial to both the health care team and the patient and remains one of the most employed and essential health care careers today. 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.
Nursing Assistants are typically responsible for:
- 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
Where Can Nursing Assistants Work?
Upon certification, graduates are prepared for positions such as certified nursing assistant in a hospital setting, assisted living facility, center for the developmentally disabled, retirement home, long-term care facility, private home, and home healthcare company.
Here are 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
- Christiana Care
NURSING ASSISTANT PROGRAM AREAS OF STUDY
Here are some of the things you’ll learn as a student in our Nursing Assistant program:
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Diversity Training
- Long Term Care & The Nursing Assistant's Role
- Foundations of Resident Care / Resident's Rights
- Understanding Your Residents
- Body Systems (Basic Anatomy)
- Basic Nursing Assisting
- Personal Care
- Skills Lab
- Caring for Yourself
- Home Health Nursing
- Common, Chronic, and Acute Conditions
- Basic Restorative Care
- Clinical Rotation in a Local Long-term Care Facility
- Professional Development
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You Get Started!
The admissions team at Dawn Career Institute is committed to assisting you throughout the process – whether you’re just beginning to investigate your educational options, or are ready to start the enrollment process.
One of our admissions representatives will speak with you about where you are in the process, your future career goals, and will help you determine if career education is right for you.
Visiting the campus is the best way to determine if DCI is the right fit for you. We’ll provide you with an individual campus tour where you’ll have an opportunity to see the classrooms and labs where you’ll receive your hands-on training.
Bring your parents, spouse or friends! Your success is important to your loved ones, so we invite them to be a part of the process.
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