Nursing Assistant

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the purpose, types, and organizational structure of healthcare facilities including the role and responsibilities of those in charge of basic nursing care.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the proper procedures for assisting patients with various methods of toileting, providing perineal care, providing catheter care, collecting specimens, providing ostomy care, and emptying urine drainage bags.

This credential is designed to document the acquisition of basic administrative and clinical skills required for the nursing assistant.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the concepts of good nutrition including the nutrients and their purposes, signs of good and poor nutrition, the role of various therapeutic diets, preparing a patient for meal time and serving food, providing supplementary food and fluids to a patient, and balancing and recoding fluid intake.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the proper procedures for caring for skin to reduce the risk of and care for decubitus ulcers.

This credential is designed to document the acquisition of basic administrative and clinical skills required for the nursing assistant.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the duties, training and education, personal qualities and characteristics, and ethical behaviors expected of healthcare workers assisting in nursing care that lead to ensuring the rights of patients and residents in healthcare facilities and at home.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the types and characteristics of microorganisms and how to implement effective infection control strategies including medical asepsis, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, disinfection, sterilization, and Standard Precautions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the common characteristics of the patient environment in the healthcare facility including how to work within the environment to make the patient comfortable and proper bed making.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain common practices that keep patients safe in a variety of situations including common emergency situations.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the various causes and characteristics of cognitive impairment including strategies for communicating and caring for these patients.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain basic body mechanics including how they apply and proper procedures for patient positioning, range-of-motion exercises, transferring patients, and use of ambulation equipment.

This credential is designed to document the acquisition of basic administrative and clinical skills required for the nursing assistant.