This first course in the Nurse Aide Program is an occupational preparation course beginning at the 11th grade level, emphasizes the study of nursing occupations as related to the health care system. Students study normal growth and development, simple body structure and function, and medical terminology and are introduced to microbes and disease. They receive elementary skill training in patient-nurse aide relationships; taking and recording of vital signs; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and bathing, feeding, dressing, and transporting of patients in hospitals and nursing homes.
Recommended
Introduction to Health and Medical Sciences, Enrolled in or completed Biology II: Survey of Human Systems