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CNA Course
Maine Medical Center values the CNAs employed throughout the hospital. CNAs are caregivers who provide patients assistance with activities of daily living and basic needs. They also help patients feel safe and comfortable throughout their hospitalization. These direct caregivers spend most of their time assisting patients and listening to their concerns.
Maine Medical Center offers a Certified Nursing Assistant course, which includes classroom work, skills labs, and clinical experience. The course is an 11- week, daytime course of 200 hours. MMC covers the cost of the course and the books. Near the end of the course, the students take the State Certification Examination.
The course is sponsored by MMC's Center for Clinical and Professional Development and Portland Adult Education.
The course covers:
- Age-specific care through the lifespan
- Safe patient care delivery
- Infection control principles and practices
- Body mechanics and mobility skills
- Communication skills
- Assisting with activities of daily living
- Nutrition and assisting patients with meeting nutritional needs
- Common health problems and nurse assistant care
- CPR and Basic Life Support (BLS)
In skills labs, students practice taking vital signs, assisting with patient mobility, and patient hygiene skills. The clinical experience allows students to interact with patients on nursing units at MMC.
All CNA applicants must attend an Information Session and bring a completed application and all required paperwork. Our next class begins in March 2010, and we will be holding an information session ion Monday, November 30, 2009. TABE testing will begin at 5:00 p.m. and the information session will start at 6:30 p.m. You must attend an information session and bring completed application in order to be considered for the class.
After the March class process is completed, the next class we will take students for will be September 2010. Specific information regarding applying for this program will be posted on the website in May 2010.
Please Note: A person cannot be a CNA in Maine if he/she has been convicted of theft or abuse in a health care setting, sexual abuse, or a crime for which one could have received a 3-year sentence.
Links:
How to Apply - Information Session
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