The Nursing Assistant program provides classroom theory, laboratory experience and clinical learning that teaches students the skills to perform duties such as taking vital signs, bathing and dressing patients, making beds, and other direct patient care.
Geriatric Nursing Assistants face many challenges from caring for Alzheimer's patients to preventing abuse and minimizing pain. Their dedication to caring for the elderly is inspirational.
..."I am a nursing assistant and i enjoy my job although i am going back to school to study embalming.i've been doing this for five years and i really enjoy working with the eldery and have learned a lot from them. they are very comical and have interesting stories to tell if you take the time out to listen to them. i have much respect for them because they have seen everything. what we read in history books, they lived through...." ( youtube commentary) |
