Courses Description
Nursing
Assistant/Home Health Aide
This
program meets both Minnesota and federal curriculum requirements for Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide
certification. Once completed successfully, graduates are eligible for the state competency exam to become
Certified. Certified Nursing Assistants/Home
Health Aides are eligible for employment in hospitals, home health care agencies, assisted living facilities,
long term care facilities and retirement homes.
Mental Health
First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is a
12-hours training course designed to give members of the public key skills to
help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental
health crisis. The course covers a range
of common disorders and potential crisis such as helping someone who is having
a panic attack, is suicidal or has experienced an addictions relapse.
The training also
provides useful information on how to assist a person who has history of mental
health disorder during an episode.The curriculum takes 12 hours to complete. It
includes Lectures, Videos, Slides, Handouts and Class Activities.
First
Aid/ CPR for the Workplace
The training was added to the curriculum to help students
identify and eliminate potentially hazardous conditions in their environment,
recognize emergencies and make appropriate decisions for first aid care to an
ill or injured person until more advance medical care arrives. The 5 hours training
is presented in two sections.
Course Requirements:
- Recognizing and Responding to Emergencies
- Overcoming Barriers to act
- Good Samaritan Laws and Obtaining Consent
