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Nurse Aide Training Will Include
Basic Nursing Skills
Taking and recording vital signs
Caring for the residents' environment
Recognizing abnormal signs and symptoms of common diseases and conditions
Personal Care Skills
Bathing, grooming, dressing and toileting, assisting with eating and hydration, and skin care.
Mental Health and Social Service Needs
Identifying developments tasks associated with the aging process.
Behavior management
Assisting the resident in preserving dignity
Care of Cognitively Impaired Residents
Communicating and understating the behavior of the cognitively impaired.
Basic Restorative Services
Use of assistance devices in transferring, ambulation, eating and dressing
Maintenance of range of motion
Bowel and bladder training
Resident Rights
Providing privacy and maintenance of confidentiality
Completion of this course fulfills the pre-requisite requirement for entry into the nursing programs at the University of Kentucky College
of Nursing, the Midway College of Nursing, and the Kentucky Community and technical College System of Nursing programs.
Midway College Nursing Programs also require all pre-nursing students to successfully complete the Kentucky Medicaid Nurse Aide Evaluation
and thereby become Sate Registered Nurse Aides. (S.R.N.A.)
Course Follow-Up
After successful completion of the Nurse Aide Training course the student will be scheduled by the Center to take the State Competency Evaluation.
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System has responsibility for the final written or oral examination and the skills demonstration aspect of
the competency evauluation. The cost of the examination is $75 and is payable to the testing center at the end of the course.
Within 30 days of satisfactory completion of the competency evaluation, KCTCS shall forward to the Kentucky Nurse Aide Registry, the name and social
security number, address and test date of students who have successfully completed the competency evaluation.
The Kentucky Board of Nursing shall maintain, on the registry the name of each student who has successfully completed the competency evaluation.
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