The Nursing Assistant Instructor Train-the-Trainer Program is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to effectively teach and train nursing assistant students. This comprehensive program focuses on adult learning principles, curriculum development, lesson planning, teaching strategies, and student performance evaluation. Participants will also gain expertise in supervising clinical practice and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations governing nursing assistant education.
Learner must have valid Wisconsin RN license and two years work experience (one year in long-term, home health, or rehabilitation care). This course will meet the state requirement for nurses who wish to become nursing assistant instructors.
Prepares learners to perform basic nursing skills under the supervision of a nurse for job entry as a nursing assistant or a home health aide (HHA) in health care agencies. Face-to-face and hybrid classroom, campus lab and clinical instruction are offered at various nursing homes and hospitals throughout the district. Students need to submit an application and complete background check.
Complex Health Alterations I prepares the learner to provide and evaluate care for patients across the lifespan with alterations in cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and hematologic systems as well as patients with fluid/electrolyte and acid-base imbalance, and alterations in comfort.
This clinical experience integrates all knowledge learned in the previous courses in transitioning to the role of the graduate nurse. The course promotes relatively independent clinical decisions, delegation, and works collaboratively with others to achieve client and organizational outcomes. Continued professional development is fostered.
This course covers nursing management and professional issues related to the role of the registered nurse. Emphasis is placed on preparing for practice as a registered nurse.
This advanced clinical course requires the student to integrate concepts from all previous courses in the management of groups of clients facing complex health alterations. Students will have the opportunity to further develop critical thinking skills using the nursing process in making clinical decisions. Continuity of care through interdisciplinary collaboration is emphasized.
This course introduces the principles of pharmacology, including drug classifications and their effects on the body. Emphasis is on the use of the components of the nursing process when administering medications.
Examines a blend of fundamentals and new practices to prepare the salesperson to build quality partnerships by creating customer value. The learner explores how todays salespeople need to live by a new set of selling principles and how they can incorporate relationship selling strategies into their sales presentations. The learner examines how to build partnerships with customers and add value to their businesses.
Explores career opportunities through research and job shadowing in a marketing related job. The learner develops answers to interview questions, a resume and cover letter, and a mock interview experience. The learner completes their marketing portfolio.
Examines the strategic market research process and the steps necessary to complete a research plan. The learner creates a complete marketing research project from start to finish, along with reporting the final results. The learner will explore: market needs, researching secondary data, primary data collection and data analysis.
Explores best practices to strengthen relationships with customers, understand the importance of managing customer expectations, the financial impact of customer service on corporate performance, and how to satisfy the customer's needs and wants through interaction with the customer. The learner maps the customer journey and builds a customer service strategic plan for a business.
Explores the latest marketing communication practices, known as integrated marketing communications(IMC), including an overview of major media such as broadcast, print, direct, digital, public relations, and promotions. The learner will create an IMC project using the latest IMC concepts.
Explores the basic foundations of marketing, including the 4Ps of marketing, along with traditional and digital marketing tactics. The learner is introduced to and creates the marketing or digital marketing program exit assessment portfolio. The learner explores a historical timeline of marketing, is introduced to global marketing ethics, and examines contemporary marketing and digital marketing careers.
Explores the financial impacts, consumer behaviors and trends as a result of digital marketing efforts in order to increase profits and make informed, strategic business decisions. The learner will explore the most effective strategies for evaluating captured data that determines consumer insights. The learner defines and answer the key questions that influence online corporate campaigns, their impact on return on investment and other business decisions. The learner examines social media and digital marketing analytics tools and discovers how to monitor feeds to find out what consumers or influencers are saying about your brand. The course analyzes todays most popular and industry used technologies.
Explores the history and development of social media sites, along with emerging social media trends. The learner sets up and measures the elements of a social media campaign. The learner explores best practices for content creation, building a shoppable site, advertising, consumer engagement, and increased follower trust throughout a variety of relevant social media sites for business.
Develops content to maximize the social media impact by learning how to consistently post content that attracts a growing following of consumers. The learner defines a targeted audience, incorporates tactics to engage an existing audience, develops a strategy to increase followers and creates a social media marketing plan.
Explores listening and speaking skills to enhance and improve business communication. Learners create and deliver a business meeting with complete agenda and meeting notes. The learner prepares outlines to deliver short presentations about best speaking tips, a product demonstration, and a final marketing presentation that incorporates presentation aids and technologies.
Explores the retail environment and the increased demand for skills and education in employees. To succeed in retailing, current and future retailers must be able to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Consumers are expecting full service and the consumer "experience" -not mere product purchase transactions. In this course, we will explore the foundation and basic functions of retailing to assist you in becoming a more knowledgeable and effective member of a retail operation. This course provides the opportunity for you to develop the skills, processes and practical experiences to manage, plan, buy, price and merchandise products within a retail business.
Explores Customer Relationship Management (CRM) as a strategic business practice that recognizes customers as the core of the business. The learner examines the benefits of a CRM strategy in B2B and B2C settings and develops a strategic CRM business plan.
Explore the pros and cons of the iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, Nook and other mobile devices, platforms and apps and learn the best practices for marketing each to consumers. The learner will review mobile analytics and market considerations for developing an app. The course presents strategies to effectively integrate mobile advertising, promotional strategies for driving traffic and sales based on business goals. The learner will understand how marketing an app and creating an ad fits into a mobile marketing campaign and ways to analyze results for optimal ROI.
Introduces an understanding of basic marketing fundamentals. The learner will explore consumer demographics, lifestyles and decision making; evaluate product distribution; promotions and price planning. The learner will create a Strategic Marketing Plan combining the components listed and develop a presentation.
This course focuses on the development of advanced clinical skills across the lifespan. Content includes advanced intravenous skills, blood product administration, chest tube systems, basic electrocardiogram interpretation and nasogastric/feeding tube insertion.
This clinical experience applies nursing concepts and therapeutic nursing interventions to groups of patients across the lifespan. It also provides an introduction to leadership, management, and team building.
This course focuses on development of evidence-based clinical skills and physical assessment across the lifespan. Content includes mathematical calculations and conversions related to clinical skills. In addition the course includes techniques related to obtaining a health history and basic physical assessment skills using a body systems approach.
This clinical experience applies nursing concepts and therapeutic interventions to patients across the lifespan. It also provides an introduction to concepts of teaching and learning. Extending care to include the family is emphasized.
This course focuses on basic nursing concepts to provide evidenced-based care to diverse patient populations across the lifespan. Current and historical issues impacting nursing will be explored within the scope of nursing practice. The nursing process will be introduced as a framework for organizing the care of patients.
This course focuses on topics related to health promotion for individuals and families throughout the lifespan. We will cover nursing care of the developing family, which includes reproductive issues, pregnancy, labor and delivery, post-partum, the newborn, and the child. Recognizing the spectrum of healthy families we will discern patterns associated with adaptive and maladaptive behaviors applying mental health principles. An emphasis is placed on teaching and supporting healthy lifestyles choices for individuals of all ages. Nutrition, exercise, stress management, empowerment, and risk reduction practices are highlighted. Study of the family will cover dynamics, functions, discipline styles, and stages of development.
This course elaborates upon the basic concepts of health and illness as presented in Nursing Fundamentals. It applies theories of nursing in the care of patients through the lifespan, utilizing problem solving and critical thinking. This course will provide an opportunity to study conditions affecting different body systems and apply evidence-based nursing interventions. It will also introduce concepts of leadership and management.
Complex Health Alterations II prepares the learner to provide and evaluate care for patients across the lifespan with alterations in the immune, neuro-sensory, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, renal/urinary, reproductive systems and shock, burns and trauma. The learner will also focus on management of care for patients with high-risk perinatal conditions and high-risk newborns.
This course will cover topics related to the delivery of community and mental health care. Specific health needs of individuals, families, and groups will be addressed across the lifespan. Attention will be given to diverse and at-risk populations. Mental health concepts will concentrate on adaptive/maladaptive behaviors and specific mental health disorders. Community resources will be examined in relation to specific types of support offered to racial, ethnic, economically diverse individuals and groups.
This intermediate level clinical course develops the RN role when working with clients with complex health care needs. A focus of the course is developing skills needed for managing multiple clients across the lifespan and priorities. Using the nursing process, students will gain experience in adapting nursing practice to meet the needs of clients with diverse needs and backgrounds.
This introductory clinical course emphasizes basic nursing skills and application of the nursing process in meeting the needs of diverse clients across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on performing basic nursing skills, the formation of nurse-client relationships, communication, data collection, documentation, and medication administration.
