NRS A 104 - Nurse Assistant Theory

1. Describe the Nursing Assistant’s roles and responsibilities regarding ethics, communication, legal obligations, and abuse laws. 
2. Describe and demonstrate professional communication in spoken and written form, as it relates to teamwork, HIPAA laws, charting, and patient/resident interactions.  
3. Demonstrate the ability to utilize medical devices for obtaining vital signs, transferring patients, and providing patient care, all while maintaining a safe environment. 
4. Describe functions of the body systems at an appropriate level of understanding for the Nursing Assistant’s scope of practice.
5. Demonstrate safety and infection control practices that comply with standards of care for Nursing Assistants.
6. Define/discuss basic restorative needs and demonstrate knowledge of meeting patients’ physical, mental, and psychosocial needs.
7. Define social determinants of health and vulnerable populations. 
8. Define OBRA regulations and the importance of advocacy for the populations we care for within the Nursing Assistant scope of practice.

1. Define their role as a safe practitioner.
2. Function on a team or within a group in a nurturing positive manner.
3. Relate to people of all ages.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.