2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog 
    
    May 09, 2025  
2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog
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NAS - 3240 Nurse Aide Level I (WTCE)


Contact Hours: 184
When Offered: Fall, Spring

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Local Prerequisite(s): None
Local Co-requisite(s): None

This course prepares graduates to provide personal care, and perform basic nursing skills for the elderly and other adults. Emphasis on aging process including mental, social and physical needs of the elderly, patient’s rights, nutrition management, elimination procedures, safe environment, restorative services, personal and special care procedures and activities, human body structure and function and related common disease/disorders, communication and documentation, death and dying, and roles of the nursing assistant and health team members. A skill/competency evaluation is required. The course includes class, laboratory and clinical learning experiences. Upon satisfactory completion of the course and skill/competency evaluation, the graduate is eligible to apply for listing as a Nurse Aide I by the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation.



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