Certified Nurse Assisting
| Is living a healthy lifestyle important to you? Do you like to help others? Want to make a difference in hundreds of people's lives? Become a nurse and lend a helping hand. | What will my classes be like?
| | Do you want to show your compassion for others? Learning how to report observations, understanding the nature of disease and common health problems, and the skills and techniques of how to take care of people is just the beginning. You'll cover how to help people recovering from sickness, and those that are disabled and injured. Practice these skills in a real hospital setting or in a nursing home on clinical internships. Turn your passion for helping others into a state nurse assistant certification while still in high school. Certified Nurse Assistants are in high demand. Your heart for helping others can make a difference. | 
| | | | | Program Description | This program is designed to prepare students for employment as nursing assistants and for future entry into nursing education programs. This program leads to a certification of completion recorded with the Illinois Department of Public Health. Training will include the development of basic nursing and cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills through lecture, laboratory demonstration, laboratory practice, and clinical experience. Instruction in this program includes a minimum of forty clinical hours held in long-term facilities in the community. Students will work alongside a facility nurse and the instructor during clinical hours. Attendance at clinical sties is mandatory for state certification. Upon successful completion of this program, students will be eligible to take the written examination for the nurse assistant state certification. Students in this program must be seniors.
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| - Certified Nurse Assistant
- Dietician
- Health Information Technician
- Home Health Aide
- Medical Technologist
- Nurses Aide
- Registered Nurse
- Rehabilitation Aide
- Unit Ward Clerk
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