UACCM Academics

Career-Specific Program Overview

Two students in scrubs and mask learning to use the patient lift to move a mannequin from bed to chair.

Nursing Assisting

The Nursing Assisting program combines classroom instruction with clinical experience. Students will be prepared to provide competent, skilled nursing care in a compassionate manner to residents of long-term care, hospice, and hospital facilities.

Career Opportunities

  • Certified Nursing Assistants

Certificate Requirements

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete the Certificate of Proficiency in Nursing Assisting will be able to:

  • Demonstrate problem solving, critical thinking approaches utilized in patient care settings.
  • Use ethical principles in practice, conduct, and relationships with patients, staff, and families.
  • Identify with the values of the profession and incorporate them into practice.
  • Promote a positive public image of nursing assistant as a positive role model.
  • Utilize communication skills to establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients, families, and staff.
  • Execute competencies required for beginning practice as a nursing assistant.

Technical Skills

  • Measuring and recording fluid intake
  • Measuring height and weight
  • Taking auxiliary temperature
  • Taking radial pulse
  • Use of wheelchair/geriatric chair
  • Personal care of residents
  • Feeding a resident
  • Incontinence care
  • Making an occupied bed
  • Execute competencies required for beginning practice as a Certified Nursing Assistant as listed by the Arkansas Office of Long Term Care

Program Requirements

  • Completion of all admission requirements to UACCM
  • Current AHA Healthcare Provider CPR certification
  • Verification of clean criminal background and child maltreatment checks
  • Verification of TB screening/clearance
  • Influenza vaccine
  • Malpractice insurance
  • Some local travel

Students cannot miss any time in the first 16 hours of the course and all absences/tardies must be made up.

Note

  • ALHE 10204 Nursing Assistant must be completed at UACCM to earn the Certificate of Proficiency.
  • Only two attempts are permitted for the successful completion of the Anatomy and Physiology courses. If a third attempt is needed, the student will need to meet with the Nursing Program Chair and/or Dean.
  • Students may not be admitted if they have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony.
  • Students required to take remedial courses must follow the UACCM Student Success Plan.
  • Clinical practicum is an integral and required part of the nursing department. The Nursing Department and/or clinical facilities require certain criteria for entry into the clinical areas possibly including but not limited to the COVID vaccination series.
  • Course will require some mandatory clinical hours off campus. Thirty minutes drive time should be anticipated.