NHSN 051L - CNA Acute Care Training Course Lab

Prerequisite:NHSN 050 and NHSN 050L or California State Nurse Assistant Certification
Corequisite:NHSN 051
Advisory: ENGL 035 or ENLA 100 or appropriate assessment; READ 043 or appropriate assessment
Transfers to: CSU

This course is designed for students who are Certified Nurse Assistants that wish to learn the basic nursing skills and duties in the acute care hospital setting with additional emphasis on the specialized acute care areas such as medical/surgical, orthopedics, pediatrics and obstetrics. The Certified Nurse Assistant Acute Care course lab consists of 81 hours of clinical practice alongside a clinical employed CNA in an acute care facility with faculty daily/weekly monitoring. This course includes communication, patient observation, reporting and recording training as well as reinforcement of Certified Nurse Assistant basic-care procedures. The Division of Health Science and Nursing requires that students be concurrently enrolled in both NHSN 051 and NHSN 051L, and successfully complete both courses together. They cannot be taken individually.