Nursing Assistant

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Overview

  • Delivery: Daytime and Evening Classes
  • Start: Fall, Spring or Summer Semester
  • Location: Rosemount Campus

Outcomes

Major Description

This course prepares students to assist dependent elderly persons, home-care clients and hospital patients with their personal care needs. This course combines home health aide content with the nursing assistant course. The Minnesota State Certification examination is administered following course completion.

Work Environment

Nursing assistants and nursing assistants/registered, or NA/R, provide care under the direct supervision of licensed nurses. Employment is primarily in long-term care facilities, home health agencies and hospitals.

Potential Job Titles

  • Certified Nurse Aide
  • Health Care Aide
  • Patient Care Technician
  • Hospital Aide
  • Certified Nursing Assistant
  • Nursing Assistant/Registered

Salary Data

  • Average Wage: $14.28/hour
  • Top Earners: $18.29/hour

Nursing Assistant NNAAP Exam Information

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Academic Advisor

Dean

  • Sherralyn Cox
    Dean of Design and Health/Human Services

Instructors

Brenda Arneson 651-423-8234 brenda.arneson@dctc.edu BIO

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