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Oct 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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AHS 114L - Nursing Assistant Skills Lab Description: Provides the necessary skills lab time to develop competency in the role of a nursing assistant through participation in skills practice in a classroom lab setting. Basic nursing assistant skills and emergency procedures; patient or resident needs and rights; written and verbal communication; ethical and legal aspects; safety and infection control. S/U grading only.
Prerequisites: Reading Proficiency. MAT 082 or higher (or a satisfactory score on the mathematics skills assessment).
Corequisite: AHS 114 and AHS 114C
Credits: .5 Lecture: 0 Lab: 1.5
Course Content:
- Communication, interpersonal skills, and documentation
- Infection control
- Safety and emergency procedures
- Patient or resident independence
- Patient or resident rights
- Abuse, mistreatment, and neglect
- Basic nursing assistant skills
- Age-specific mental health and social service needs
- Cognitively impaired client care
- Basic restorative care skills
- Role as a healthcare team member
- Legal aspects of nursing assistant practice
- Body structure and common diseases
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills. (1,11,12)
- Utilize infection control principles and procedures. (2)
- Maintain a safe environment for the patient or resident in a simulated environment. (3,5)
- Perform restorative care skills and emergency procedures safely. (3,10)
- Assist and promote patient and resident independence in a simulated environment. (4)
- Demonstrate protection of patient and resident rights in a simulated environment. (1,5,12)
- Perform basic nursing assistant skills safely. (3,7)
- Identify and report changes in the patient or resident's condition in a simulated environment (1,6,8,9,13)
- Adapt to individual patient or resident behaviors and needs. (1,8)
- Adapt to the unique needs of the patient or resident with cognitive impairment. (1,3,9)
- Work as a member of the healthcare team within the role of the nursing assistant. (1,11,12)
- Apply basic knowledge of body structure and common diseases. (7,13)
Required Assessment:
- Skills check-offs.
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