CNA Training

Certified Nurse Assistant Training is a rather rigorous.  Most people think that it is so easy because of the glamorous view of little kids to this job and they think there is not much to being a nurse as they equate it to being a simple maid in an expensive building called a hospital.

What will you learn in CNA Training?

CNA Training involves both mental and physical preparedness. One must be aware about a plethora of medical terms and values. Medical terms alone can make a small dictionary already. Vital signs, normal values of the human blood contents, urine, gastric juices, medication, hormones, and the like make a huge list of things to memorize and study. Despite not being enough to all it being a Registered Nurse, they still have to learn enough to be able to contribute to a patient’s wellbeing.

Physical Training

Physical training involves numerous back breaking procedures as well as simple ones like taking a patient’s pulse. One must know the proper way to carry a person that is unable to move certain parts of their body.  One must be able to move an unconscious patient while making sure that they will not be doing anything that would make a conscious person uncomfortable or hurt.  Precision in measurement of medications and blood sampling and the like is of outmost importance.  These skills need to be drilled upon one’s body through practice and actual usage in the field. That is why there are OJTs or on the Job Trainings.  Being a Certified Nurse Assistant actively takes a role in the patient’s wellbeing. That is why the trainee must be well informed and properly trained in both aspects.

CNA Training course never only goes on in the classroom. As mentioned before, one must actually be able to use the skills upon a living human being. That is not to say that they will carelessly make a guinea pig out of the patients.  The will practice on humans only after passing the demonstrations used on dummy dolls.  When finally doing it to a human, they will still be monitored carefully to prevent mistakes and provide optimum care for the patient.