The Career Center Program/Course Information



|The Career Center Program/Course Information |[pic] |

|Nursing Fundamentals -- Honors | |

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|Description |

|This course is designed for students who are interested in medical careers. Nurse aide workplace fundamentals and resident |

|care skills are taught in this course. This course is an enhancement of the North Carolina Division of Health Service |

|Regulation Nurse Aide I curriculum. Students who successfully complete the course will be prepared to take the National Nurse |

|Aide Assessment Program NNAAP competency exam for Certified Nurse Aide I. A clinical internship of at least 40 hours in a |

|long-term care facility is required. |

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|2nd year course |

|Special requirements |

|Pre-requisites: Health Science I and Health Science II. A minimum grade of “C” is recommended. |

|Students will be selected into the Nursing Fundamentals course based on GPA, attendance, and professional demeanor. Selected |

|students will need to present the following documentation at the end of their junior year: |

|Students will have to pass a drug test and background check in their junior year in order to participate in Nursing |

|Fundamentals. |

|Each student will need to present their signed Social Security Card for the above test to be performed. Students without a |

|government Social Security Card are not candidates for this course. |

|The following immunizations must be submitted in June of their junior year: Three Hepatitis B, Two Varicella (chicken Pox), |

|Two Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR), Polio/DPT, and an updated Tetanus immunization. |

|Copy (front and back) of their current CPR card for the Professional Health Care Provider (Adult, child, infant CPR, & AED). |

|The CPR card must be current through the senior year. |

|Upon entering the Nursing Fundamentals course in August of their senior year the students will also need the following: |

|Two PPD’s (Tuberculosis Test). Please get these during the summer before senior year. |

|Current influenza vaccination, when they become available during senior year. |

|Student costs/Materials to be supplied by students |

|Students are encouraged to join HOSA, the Health Occupations Students of America. There is a $20.00 fee to join. |

|Students must buy their uniform, white shoes, a watch with a second hand, and emblems. |

|Students are responsible for transportation to and from the clinical site. |

|Other information |

|Maximum Enrollment – 10 students |

|Enrollment is limited per North Carolina Board of Nursing (BON) Administrative Rule 21 NCAC 36.0318 (i) which requires the |

|ratio of teacher to nurse aide students be 1:10 or less while in the classroom and clinical areas. |

|Career Center ( 910 Highland Ct. ( Winston-Salem, NC 27101 ( 336-727-8181 |44 |

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