CPR For Life
8105 Edgewater
Suite 290 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94621

(510) 553-1800 Office
(510) 553-1818 Fax

CNA OAKLA

 

1. Certified Nursing Assistant  Program Information (CNA)

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Program provided by CPR for Life prepares the student for California Certification as a CNA. It is designed to provide the student with nursing theory, laboratory and clinical experience necessary to work as a CNA in a variety of health care settings. Instruction will be held CPR for Life and the clinical component will be held at community-based skilled nursing facilities.

Certified Nursing Assistants are health care professionals who work in a variety of health care settings. Job responsibilities include assisting with personal hygiene and grooming (for example, bathing, dressing, nail care), mobility (transferring, positioning, ambulation), nutritional and elimination needs (feeding, bedpans, emptying urine collection bags), comfort activities (back rubs, answering call lights, maintaining privacy), assessment and care planning (vital signs, collecting specimens, recording and reporting observations), safety and environmental cleanliness (keeping environment clean, maintaining infection control, caring for equipment), and miscellaneous tasks (transporting residents, delivering specimens, assisting with special procedures).

On completion of this course, the student meets California requirements to take the State Certification Exam for CNA's. Basic nursing theory and skills are taught in the classroom and laboratory setting, and students are supervised in giving care to residents in the long-term care facility (nursing home). The focus of this course is on the care of the elderly resident. Course content follows the California State approved CNA curriculum.

CNA Class Description

This is a 150-hour class for students who wish to work in an acute care or convalescent hospital, or a home care environment. Successful completion of the program will make students eligible to take the state certification exam, administered by a state-approved testing vendor. Upon passing the exam, students will be credentialed as a Certified Nurse Assistant by the California Department of Health Services. The following subjects are discussed and tested during the theory portion (50 hours) of the class:

Introduction
Patient's Rights
Interpersonal Skills
Prevention Management of Catastrophe and Unusual Occurrence
Body Mechanics
Medical and Surgical Asepsis
Weights and Measures
Patient Care Skills
Patient Care Procedures
Vital Signs
Nutrition
Emergency Procedures
Long-Term Care Patient
Rehabilitative Nursing
Observation and Charting
Death and Dying

The following topics and skills are discussed, demonstrated, and practiced during the clinical portion (100 hours) of the class:

Resident Rights - Safety Restraints/Side Rails
Catastrophe/Unusual Occurrence
Body Mechanics - transferring, hoyer lift, ambulation, position techniques
Med-Surg Asepsis - Universal precautions, preventing infection
Weight and Measures - measuring intake and output
Resident Care Skills - bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, hair care, incontinency and skin care, bedpan, urinal, commode
Resident Care Procedures - collection of specimens, catheter, oxygen, bed making, enemas and suppositories, admissions, transfers, discharges, topical ointment application, non-sterile dressings
Vital Signs
Nutrition - feeding techniques
Emergency Procedures
Rehabilitative Nursing - adaptive equipment, motivation/ADL's, resident/family interaction, ambulation, range of motion
Observation and Charting - reporting responsibility, resident care plans

CLOCK HOURS OF TRAINING
NURSE ASSISTANT

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