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Geriatric Aide--CNA
AL131

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

4.50

PREREQUISITES:

ACT Reading Score of 14 or Above, or Accuplacer Next Generation Reading Score of 231 or above, or Accuplacer Writing Score of 40 to 120.

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

Students must pass both theory and clinical portions; meets state requirements for Certified Nurse Aide state exam; 105 clock hours

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Fundamental knowledge of the aging process with emphasis on meeting the physical needs requirements of geriatric residents of health care facilities including ethics, communication, normal and aging body system functions, nutrition, diseases, observation skills, documentation, personal care skills and their adequate performance.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Know responsibilities of nurse aide in health care delivery system.
    1. Identify delivery settings.
    2. Name health care profession responsible for actions of the nurse aide.
    3. Demonstrate professional attitude and behavior which enhances communication between the trainee and the resident, resident's family members, and staff.
    4. Describe appropriate confidentiality.
    5. Demonstrate good work ethics, including attendance and positive attitude.
    6. Demonstrate responsibility for resident rights by offering choices, promoting independence, and the client's right to be free from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
    7. Define abuse, neglect, and exploitation; describe proper reporting and consequences of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
  2. Practice safety precautions to avoid injury when having contact with patients.
    1. Describe disaster and/or fire escape plans.
    2. Describe oxygen usage and storage.
    3. Demonstrate practices that reduce the transfer of infection in resident's living area, bathroom, disposal of soiled articles, and cleaning equipment after resident use (standard precautions).
    4. Demonstrate effective hand washing techniques following all rules of asepsis, including washing hands when entering and leaving the resident's room.
    5. Use disposable gloves when in contact with body fluids (blood, urine, vomitus, excrement, saliva).
    6. Demonstrate proper disposal of gloves.
  3. Practice safety precautions to avoid injury to patient with medical concerns.
    1. Demonstrate proper catheter care and discuss safety issues involved in wearing a catheter.
    2. Describe/demonstrate colostomy care.
    3. Demonstrate safe transfer, using the gait belt and/or mechanical lift from bed to chair and from chair to toilet/commode.
    4. Demonstrate the following procedures: logroll to side of bed, turn, reposition, up to sitting position.
    5. Assist with ambulation, utilizing assistive devices when needed.
    6. Simulate the abdominal thrust (Heimlich maneuver) technique.
    7. Demonstrate proper body alignment and positioning in bed and chair using devices and pillows as necessary.
    8. Demonstrate methods for bed, chair, and wheelchair to prevent pressure areas.
    9. Make sure equipment is safe and clean and pathway is clear before transferring.
    10. Be aware of signs of complaints of dizziness.
    11. Demonstrate knowledge of resident safety measures such as Wanderguard system.
  4. Provide for the safety and comfort of patients in their daily needs.
    1. Demonstrate techniques of making an occupied and unoccupied bed using measures to provide for resident's comfort, prevent the transfer of microorganisms while handling linen, and prevent skin irritations/pressure ulcers.
    2. Provide for safety and privacy while using the toilet, commode, bedpan, or urinal.
    3. Observe skin, recognizing need for and providing skin care.
    4. Demonstrate feeding techniques, guarding for safety and encouraging independence of resident.
    5. Demonstrate knowledge of the importance of fluid intake.
    6. Describe swallowing strategies.
  5. Assist patients with personal care.
    1. Assist and/or provide oral care to include care of the mouth, gums, teeth, or dentures.
    2. Assist with or provide nail care for patients other than those with diabetics or impaired circulation.
    3. Assist and/or dress/undress, allowing for appropriate personal choices while encouraging independence.
    4. Assist with urination and bowel elimination needs, meeting the resident's needs and providing for safety and privacy, while using the toilet, commode, bedpan, or urinal.
    5. Demonstrate appropriate care for incontinent resident, including toileting, perineal care, what and when to report.
    6. Assist and/or provide grooming assistance for resident including oral care--mouth, gums, teeth, or dentures; nail soaking, cleaning, filing; hair brushing/combing; beard care/shaving; selecting appropriate dress for resident's choice and activities.
    7. Describe and demonstrate skin care.
  6. Demonstrate accurate measurement and recording.
    1. Measure height and weight.
    2. Add cubic centimeters.
    3. Record vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure.
    4. Report to supervisor any change in resident's measurements.
    5. Obtain accurate input and output.
  7. Work with patients with special needs.
    1. Describe or demonstrate communication technique with cognitively impaired resident.
    2. Describe/demonstrate maintenance and evaluation of sensory devices such as eye glasses, hearing aids.
    3. Describe how to work with residents who have special needs such as fall, elopement, skin risks, and combativeness.
    4. Describe/demonstrate the care of resident after death,

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Clinical evaluation 2. Written assignments 3. Practical demonstrations 4. Written examinations and clinical evaluations (must pass with a minimum of 75% accuracy)

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

PROGRAM ACCREDITATION:

Health Occupations Credentialing (HOC)
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS)
612 S. Kansas Ave.
Topeka, KS 66603-3404

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 03/30/2023