Certified Nursing Assistant 2 - Acute Care

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Course Title:  CNA: Level 2 Acute Care
Course Number: 9.441
Credits: 5                  
Semester Hours: 65 Classroom/Lab & 24 Clinical

Course Description:  This course is designed to assist the Certified Nursing Assistant Level 1 (CNA1) with developing the knowledge and skills necessary to become a Certified Nursing Assistant Level 2 (CNA2), Acute Care.

Prerequisites:  You must be on OSBN's registry as a CNA in good standing. It is preferred that you be employed as a CNA1 at your current facility for the six-months prior to the beginning of the course. Proof of site specific immunizations. 

Course Objectives:  Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to...

  • Demonstrate knowledge of conditions and actions that serve clients' safety, prevent complications, communicate client responses to the nurse, and record outcomes of client care.
  • Recognize, identify and report normal and abnormal patterns in clinical findings and behaviors of clients.
  • Demonstrate adherence to clients' plan of care.
  • Demonstrate understanding of teaching on body systems, pain, treatments, symptoms, and their mutual relationships.
  • Return demonstrate new technical and interpersonal skills and designated tasks.
  • Demonstrate proper use of diagnostic, safety, and therapeutic devices within the Nursing Assistant's scope of care.
  • Demonstrate adequate understanding of relationship between clinical skills and devices and disease processes and their treatments.
  • Recognize and encourage the appropriate client attitudes and actions which reinforce client independence and healing.
  • Model appropriate behavior to peers, demonstrating proper methods for addressing client care needs on an individualized basis.

Teaching/Learning Methods:  Classroom and lab experiences will include lecture with visual and/or audio-visual aids, class and small-group discussion, teacher demonstration, student practice and return demonstration.  Clinical experiences will provide the opportunity for you to apply what you have learned in the acute nursing facility setting.

If you are interested in this course please contact Dorothy Fisk, Program Assistant, at (541) 917-4512 or email at dorothy.fisk@linnbenton.edu with questions or to have your name added to our interest list.