UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY CROSSETT NURSING ASSISTANT COURSE (NA 1017) SYLALLUS FALL 2014 M-Tu-Th 5:30pm-9:00pm

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1 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY CROSSETT NURSING ASSISTANT COURSE (NA 1017) SYLALLUS FALL 2014 M-Tu-Th 5:30pm-9:00pm PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR: SECONDARY INSTRUCTOR: OFFICE HOURS: SHELA UPSHAW, RN DANA TUCKER, RN Available by appointment. Office phone: (Leave Message) Mobile phone: (Call or Text) CLASS DATES: August 26, 2014-November 6, 2014 Letter with exact dates provided at enrollment COURSE TITLE: Nursing Assistant (1017) ---7 Credit Hours PREREQUISITES: None I. TEXTBOOK: Hartman s Nursing Assistant Care: Long Term Care (3rd Edition) ISBN Workbook ISBN II. III. IV. COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Nursing Assistant course focuses on safe and effective performance to provide care in a health care setting. Emphasis is placed on specific nursing assistant duties and on the concepts pertaining to the psychosocial aspect of care giving. The participants have classroom and applied lab in addition to clinical training in long-term health care facilities. Students who successfully complete the Nursing Assistant program are eligible to take the skills and written examination that leads to Arkansas State Certification. Those students who successfully become certified are placed on the State Registry as a Certified Nurse Assistant. CURRICULUM: Curriculum mandated by State of Arkansas, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medical Services Office of Long Term Care, Nursing Assistant Training Curriculum as revised July LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to: 1. Develop an awareness of interpersonal communication skills needed for successful job performance as a nursing assistant. 2. Know practices that hinder the transfer of disease producing micro-organisms from one person to another. 3. Exercise safety precautions and proper body mechanics conducive to the nursing assistant and residents health and well-being. 4. Identify practices and services that promote residents independence, privacy, and rights. Be able to identify signs and symptoms of Child Maltreatment and report. 5. Know basic elements of care that will provide a safe and comfortable environment for residents. 6. Develop methods and skills to assist residents with maintaining personal hygiene that promotes health and prevents infection.

2 7. Demonstrate basic nursing skills and the ability to accurately record and report observations that will promote optimum resident care. 8. Identify the various cognitive functions as it refers to the mental process of the resident. 9. Understand the requirements of and approaches to restorative care. 10. Understand Alzheimer s disease and dementia terminology, progression, and care stages. V. ATTENDANCE POLICY: The course is composed of classroom/lab hours and 40 clinical hours. The student should notify the instructor when they are going to be absent. Contact information has been provided in the syllabus. Classroom/ Attendance Regular and prompt attendance is expected of all students enrolled at UAM-CTC and is necessary to maintain satisfactory progress. Each time a student is late for class or leaves early, the student will be charged a full hour or hours of absence (rounded up to the larger hour of time). A student will be placed on attendance probation and notified in writing once he/she has been absent 15% of the total classroom/lab hours. When the student is absent 20% of the total classroom/lab hours, the student will be dropped from the course. Clinical Attendance As with class/lab attendance, each time a student is late for clinical or leaves early, the student will be charged a full hour of absence (rounded up to the larger number of hours). A student cannot make up time to reduce hours of absence any time during the course. Five clinical days (each 8 hours) have been scheduled for the course. The student cannot be absent more than one clinical day (8 hours). Once the student is absent more than 8 hours, the student will be dropped from the course. The student must complete a total of 4 clinical days (32 clinical hours) in order to pass the course. A student is never to leave the clinical site without first notifying the instructor. Leaving the clinical site without permission can result in immediate dismissal from the course. A student wanting to re-take the Nursing Assistant course after being dropped due to poor attendance, must reapply for the course and be accepted for enrollment. Agencies granting financial assistance will be notified as required of all absences of those students receiving financial aid. The policy of each agency regarding payment when a student is absent will apply in each case. VI. EXAMINATIONS: A student must be present for all examinations. No make-up examinations will be given without adequate documentation supporting absence. Students who know in advance that they will be absent from an examination due to valid reasons must arrange to take an early examination. Unexpected absences due to illness or extenuating circumstances will require the student to see the instructor about individual make-up work in lieu of the missed examination. Students without excused absences will be given a zero for the missed examination.

3 VII. GRADING POLICY: The following grading scale will be used for assigning final grades: A= B=89-80 C=79-70 D=69-60 F=0-59 Final grades are calculated by adding up the student s total points earned and dividing this number by the total points possible in the class to determine the student s average. VIII. IX. GRADE REPORTS: UAM will no longer mail grade reports to all students. You may access your grades through Campus Connect on the UAM homepage, uamont.edu/. To have your grades mailed to you, complete the grade request form available in the Registrar s office in Monticello or the Student Services offices in Crossett or McGehee. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: 1. Cheating: Students shall not give, receive, offer, or solicit information on examinations, quizzes, etc. This includes, but is not limited to, the following cases of dishonesty: a. Copying from another student s paper. b. Use, during the examination, of prepared materials, notes, or texts other than those specifically permitted by the instructor. c. Collaboration with another student during the examination. d. Buying, selling, stealing, soliciting, or transmitting an examination or any material purported to be the unreleased contents of coming examinations or the use of any such material. e. Substituting for another person during an examination or allowing such substitutions for oneself. 2. Collusion: Collusion is defined as obtaining from another party, without specific approval in advance by the instructor, assistance in the production of work offered for credit to the extent that the work reflects the ideas of the party consulted rather than those of the person whose name is on the work submitted. 3. Duplicity: Duplicity is defined as offering for credit identical or substantially unchanged work in two or more courses without specific advanced approval of the instructors involved. 4. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined as adopting and reproducing as one s own, to appropriate to one s use, and to incorporate in one s own work without acknowledgement the ideas or passages from the writings or works of others. For any instance of academic dishonesty that is discovered by the instructor, whether the dishonesty is found to be cheating, collusion, duplicity, or plagiarism, the result for the student(s) involved will be at the discretion of the instructor, up to and including dismissal from the course. X. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: It is the policy of the University of Arkansas at Monticello to accommodate individuals with disabilities pursuant to the federal law and the University s commitment to equal educational opportunities. It is the responsibility of the student to inform the instructor of any necessary accommodations at the beginning of the course. Any student requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Special Student Services representative on campus at phone ; fax

4 XI. DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR: Student Conduct Statement: Students at the University of Arkansas at Monticello are expected to conduct themselves appropriately, keeping in mind that they are subject to the laws of the community and standards of society. The student must not conduct him/herself in a manner that disrupts the academic community or breaches the freedom of other students to progress academically. Cell phones are NOT ALLOWED inside the classroom or lab. XII. COURSE OUTLINE: (This syllabus may change at the discretion of the instructor.) Unit I Communication and Interpersonal Skills Unit II Infection Prevention and Control Unit III Safety and Emergency Procedures Unit IV Promoting Independence/Respecting Residents Rights Unit V Introduction to Resident Care Unit VI Personal Care Skills Unit VII Basic Nursing Skills Unit VIII Social/Cognitive Behavior Unit IX Basic Restorative Services Unit X Dementia and Alzheimer s Disease CLASS SCHEDULE Date Topics Hours UNIT I Communication and Interpersonal Skills Orientation/Introduction/Tour of 3.5 Chapter 1 Understanding Healthcare Settings-Long-term Care pg. 1; 4-5 Chapter 2 The Nurse Assistant and the Care Team pgs 9-14 Chapter 4 Communication and Cultural Diversity Chapter 3 Legal and Ethical Issues pg 24; UNIT II INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL Test Chapter 2 and Chapter Chapter 5 Preventing Infections Handwashing and Isolation Technique UNIT III SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Chapter 6 Safety and Body Mechanics pg 88-90; 79-92; pg 83 Chapter 10 Positioning, Transfers, and Ambulation pg Chapter 7 Emergency Care and Disaster Preparation pg Heimlich UNIT IV PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE/RESPECTING RESIDENT S RIGHTS Chapter 3 Legal and Ethical Issues 3.5 Chapter 8 pg ; chapter 13 pg 196, 197; chapter 21 pg 378 Child Maltreatment Training

5 UNIT V INTRODUCTION TO RESIDENT CARE Chapter 12 The Resident s Unit Chapter 12 The Resident s Unit /Chapter 15 Serving Meal Tray pgs Bed Making Test Chapter and Test chapters 6 and UNIT VI PERSONAL CARE SKILLS Chapter 13 Personal Care Skills and Test Chapter Bathing Without a Battle Video Chapter 13 Continued Chapter 16 Urinary Elimination 3.5 Chapter 15 pgs Test Chapter Chapter 16 Continued Test Chapter Chapter 17 Bowel Elimination Chapter 17 and lab Test Chapter Chapter 15 Nutrition and Hydration Chapter 10 Positioning, Transfers, and Ambulation 3.5 Test Chapter Chapter 10 Continued Test Chapter Chapter 6 Restraints pgs UNIT VII BASIC NURSING SKILLS Chapter 14 Basic Nursing Skills 3.5

6 Chapter 14 Continued Chapter 14 Continued 3.5 Chapter 11 Admitting, Transferring, and Discharging Chapter 19 pgs Test Chapter Chapter 18 Common Chronic and Acute Conditions Chapter 23 Dying, Death and Hospice UNIT VIII SOCIAL/COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL Chapter 8 pg pg 120, ; Chapter 20 Mental Health and Mental Illness pgs Look At Me Video UNIT IX BASIC RESTORATIVE SERVICES Chapter 21 Rehabilitation and Restorative Care 3.5 Chapter 16 Urinary Elimination pgs Chapter 17 Bowel Elimination pgs UNIT X ALZHIEMER AND DEMENTIA TRAINING PROGRAM Chapter 19 Confusion, Dementia, and Alzheimer s Disease 3.5 Test Chapter Chapter 19 Continued Chapter 19 Continued Test Chapter Chapter Make up exams and review Review Final Exam 3.5

7 WORKBOOKS: Workbooks should be kept up for the dates and chapters listed. Points may be given at the discretion of the instructor for workbook checks throughout the course. There will also be a class designated for CPR. The date for this class will be announced at a later date. The last day to drop with a W is October 15, 2014 Clinical Dates at Stonegate Villa Health and Rehab September 27, 2014 October 4, 2014 October 11, 2014 October 25, 2014 November 1, 2014