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.
Provides the culinary student the opportunity to apply cooking skills in a production environment. Ideally, learners will be working in a food service establishment where tickets are generated and food is prepared to order.
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.
Prepares learners to perform basic nursing skills under the supervision of a nurse for job entry as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) 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.
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 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.
Provides the learner with skills in choosing quality farm-fresh produce and utilizing staples found in a pantry. Learners will incorporate a variety of elements as they create a healthy menu such as salad greens, fruits, vegetables, meats and cheeses in meal preparation.
Examine principles of sanitation that relate to professional butchering operations. Learners will apply these principles in the forthcoming HACCP class.
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.
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 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.
Development of skills to follow sanitation and hygiene provisions in state codes. Focuses on the challenges to food safety, developing a food safety system, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, working in a safe environment and maintaining sanitary facilities and equipment.
Food science principles applied to professional culinary food preparations. Units include professional kitchen operation, recipe terminology, culinary math and cooking techniques for various food categories. In addition, careers in the culinary industry are explored; including professionalism, ethics and etiquette.
Prepare foods in a lab setting while participating in various stations that are typically found in a restaurant. Learners will establish skills in serving, cooking, and customer service.
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 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.
Assist in the ethical animal harvesting process. This process will cover transportation, unloading, and on-site slaughtering. Determine proper documentation and procedures to follow under State Inspection in various locations.
Categorize the structure of various animal carcasses, including fabrication methods and performing a variety of cuts used in both foodservice and retail. Explore national meat identification systems, and the inspection process along with quality and yield grading as well as cost systems. Proper cooking methods and knife/ equipment selection will all be explored.
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.
Examine the concepts and techniques of controlling costs with an emphasis on determining the sales price based on cost inputs, and utilizing break-even calculations. Learners will calculate the cost of goods, overhead, and selling price. Learners will determine the resources needed to run various restaurant operations.
Experience in producing lunch meals through the use of grills, fryers, ovens and steamers. Service experience includes cafeteria line work and fast food delivery.
Creation of baked goods along with high-end decorating techniques are practiced throughout this course. Learners will utilize their creative side as they design and produce attractive presentations.
Explore the art of service and the importance of front of the house work in the culinary program. Learners learn how to properly interact with guests and provide high quality customer service. Examine the proper techniques of table service, obtaining guest orders, interacting with the kitchen staff and creating a professional atmosphere.
