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.
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.
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.
Crucial Conversations® for Mastering Dialogue teaches nine powerful skill sets grounded in decades of social science research. Learn how to strengthen relationships, keep your cool, and create a safe environment in crucial moments. This course helps learners develop these vital skills through instruction, application, practice, group discussion, and self-reflection—not just theory—for lasting improvement.
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 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 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 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.
In Project Management, learners apply the skills and tools necessary to design, implement and evaluate formal projects. Each learner will: understand the importance and value of managing projects, assume the role of a project manager, develop a project proposal, use relevant project management software, work with project teams, establish the proper sequence of tasks, chart progress, respond to variation and changes, develop a budget, direct resources and manage a project through its life cycle.
Apply the skills and tools necessary to facilitate team development and effectiveness, solve complex problems, pinpoint the root cause of conflict, and resolve issues between team members. Each learner will demonstrate the application of the benefits and challenges of teamwork, perform the necessary roles in a team, facilitate the stages of team development, conduct conflict resolution, evaluate potential causes of a problem, develop multiple approaches to problem solving and decision making, exhibit the ability to build consensus and commitment, utilize a systematic approach to defining and solving problems and implement various methods for evaluating results based on established criteria and metrics.
In Managing Safety & Risk in Business, learners apply the skills and tools necessary to provide a safe and secure work environment. Each learner will: demonstrate the application of safety awareness, understand federal, state and local compliance, conduct incident investigation and documentation, practice effective human relations techniques, conduct safety orientations, inspections and risk analysis, guard against issues of workplace violence, identify and assist employees with substance abuse issues, identify and correct workplace health hazards, practice first aid, CPR, fire and electrical safety, practice emergency preparedness procedures, act as a liaison with external agencies and design safe facilities.
Explores skills that are essential for business professionals to succeed in a variety of organizational environments. Learners develop skills related to time management, goal setting, delegation, stress management, assertive communication, emotional intelligence, and training and development.
Learners apply the skills and tools necessary to identify, acquire and effectively direct employee abilities to meet workforce and organizational challenges and goals. Each learner will: demonstrate the relevance of the supervisor's role in human resources management, explore the impacts of EEOC, write job descriptions, develop recruitment and selection strategies, conduct job interviews, carry out staff on-boarding and orientations, develop workplace policies and procedures, develop and implement training and development programs, execute performance appraisal and management, provide coaching and effectively utilize compensation and benefit strategies.
In Lean Organizations, learners apply the skills and tools necessary to enhance company performance and profitability by identifying and eliminating waste throughout all business processes. Lean is a work smarter, not harder, approach that allows an organization to produce more while utilizing fewer resources. Many traditional approaches to business processes require excessive inventory, repetitive tasks, wasted materials, scrap and rework and misappropriated human and other resources. Each learner will: identify and practice Lean Solutions by completing learning plans that cover Lean Operations, Value-stream Mapping, 8 Wastes, 5S Workplace Organization, Set-up Reduction, Cellular Flow Design, Lean Culture Development, Value Chain Management, Kanban Systems and Total Productive Maintenance.
Apply the tools and skills necessary to implement the training cycle of assessment needed to develop human resources in organizations. In Training and Talent Development, learners will analyze organizational training needs, examine training task, develop training objectives, organize training content, determine appropriate training methods, select training recourses, complete a training plan, deliver training and assess the training process
Learners apply the skills and tools necessary to fulfill a leadership role in the workplace. Each learner will: evaluate leadership skills, demonstrate leadership effectiveness, meet organizational requirements, carry out individual and group motivation strategies, implement mission, vision and goal setting, display ethical behavior, establish a personal leadership style, practice situational leadership, understand the impacts of power, facilitating employee development, coaching, managing change and effective conflict resolution.
Gain knowledge and develop the expertise necessary to apply the tools needed to perform essential supervisory and managerial functions. Learners will develop the ability to provide timely and constructive feedback, evaluate and improve performance, conduct performance appraisals, conduct employee mentoring, provide workforce training and coaching, communicate effectively and create a motivating environment. Each learner will: demonstrate the application of important management and supervisory roles including planning, organizing, staffing, leading, controlling, analysis, delegation, problem-solving, decision-making, team development, leadership, motivation, training and staff development.
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.
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 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.
This course is designed for newly promoted leaders to explore their leadership style and advance their skills. In this course participants will use a leadership assessment tool to better understand their strengths, discuss different communication styles, and evaluation dysfunctions and conflict modes.
The Junior Executive Leadership course is designed to develop and enhance the skills of junior executives and those aspiring to such roles. Through interactive modules, participants will explore leadership, strategic thinking, communication, and organizational culture. Each session provides practical insights and strategies for organizational success. The course equips leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in today’s dynamic business environment, fostering more effective and confident leaders ready to elevate their organizations.
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 on Emotional Intelligence is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the four key components of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Through a mix of foundational insights, practical examples, and engaging group discussion, participants will learn how to interpret their emotional intelligence scores and leverage them to become effective leaders. The course also offers strategies to enhance both personal and team emotional intelligence, with specific tools and activities for each component. Participants will apply these concepts to real-world workplace scenarios, focusing on conflict management and feedback, and will develop a personalized action plan to ensure ongoing growth and accountability.
Being a great coach and mentor leads to more productive and happy employees. Matching your leadership style to meet the needs of the employee and the situation will lead to successful results. This course will teach you how to coach your team to a high level of performance..1
Leading through times of continuous change and managing the pressures of competing and shifting priorities can be overwhelming and cause symptoms of exhaustion and burnout. Being a resilient and effective leader requires the ability to regain balance, reframe perspectives, and maintain a sense of purpose when responding to stressful situations and uncertain changes.
Through a combination of instruction and interactive exercises, participants will learn the traits of being a resilient leader and techniques for enhancing their own well-being. This session goes beyond the notion just coping with a poor situation and profiles the importance of taking proactive steps towards regaining a sense of purpose and optimism. With learnings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and organizational behavior, topics include the causes and symptoms of burnout, how to reframe towards positive engagement, and core elements supporting emotional health.
Live2Lead is a leader development experience designed to equip attendees with new perspectives, practical tools and key takeaways. You'll learn from world-class leadership experts, be prepared to implement a new action plan, and start leading when you get back to the office with renewed passion and commitment.
