Certified Nursing Assistant
April 12 – July 19, 2023 | Wednesdays
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Roane General Hospital
$2000
Description
This 120-hour course on the nursing career ladder is designed to meet the WV State Requirements to prepare a nursing assistant to work in a long-term care facility and sit for the State’s certification examination to be a Certified Nursing Assistant. Additional hours have been incorporated to train students to work in any health care facility as a nursing assistant (hospital home health, assisted living). Areas of study include medical ethics, infection control, communication, residents’ rights, vital signs, activities of daily living, restorative care, death and dying, and the aging process. This course includes 65 hours of classroom instruction and 55 hours of clinical instruction at an approved facility.
Program Requirements
Current Immunizations, Criminal Background Checks, COVID-19 and flu shots, white scrub bottoms and hunter green top, clean, close-toed shoes
To register, contact April Philbrook at 304-424-8636 or april.philbrook@wvup.edu or Martha Leeson at 304-424-8275 or martha.leeson@wvup.edu.