Nursing Assistant Course

Our Nursing Assistant Course is accredited by CPD and perfect for anyone looking to work with people of all ages and provide help and support in a care setting. By completing this Nursing Assistant course, you will gain a CPD-accredited qualification and a free digital certificate.

To make this Nursing Assistant course more accessible for you, we have designed it for both part-time and full-time students, and if you require any support then our experienced tutors are always on hand to help.

Throughout this Nursing Assistant course, you will learn the roles and liabilities of a nurse and how to assist patients who are diagnosed with a variety of diseases. You will also learn about equality, diversity and fairness in health and social care. As a nurse, it is crucial to understand legislation and codes of practices in health and social care perspectives, and this Nursing Assistant course will help you understand these areas as well.

Upon successful completion of the Nursing Assistant course, you will be qualified to pursue a rewarding career in the healthcare sector.

Learning Objectives

The primary learning objectives of the Nursing Assistant Course are to:

• Impart you with the skills needed to become a nursing assistant.
• Provide a fast-track summary of nursing and patient care.
• Prepare you for an exciting and rewarding career in the field of healthcare.
• Define health and wellness and how to provide compassionate care to individuals who are not able to adequately care for themselves.
• Help you undertake a range of duties which support clinical care.
• Develop your understanding of taking care of patient hygiene (bathing them, bedding, cleaning their rooms, grooming them, etc.)
• Get you acquainted with essential nursing assistant skills and knowledge.
• Prepare you for entry-level nursing assistant/aide jobs at hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
• Provide expert training to help you earn your diploma in nursing and patient care, to increase job opportunities and lead to a higher paid role.

What will you learn in this Nursing Assistant Course

Module 1

In this module, you will learn all about NOTES ON NURSING. Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle—that all disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied by suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed, the termination of the disease being then, while the antecedent process was going on, determined.

Module 2

This module will teach you about VENTILATION AND WARMING. The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse’s attention must be fixed, the first essential to a patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, with which I had almost said you may leave all the rest alone, is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM. Yet what is so little attended, too? Even where it is thought of at all, the most extraordinary misconceptions reign about it.

Module 3

In this module, you will learn all about HEALTH OF HOUSES. Pure water is more generally introduced into houses than it used to be, thanks to the exertions of the sanitary reformers. Within the last few years, a large part of London was in the daily habit of using water polluted by the drainage of its sewers and water closets. This has happily been remedied. But, in many parts of the country, well water of a very impure kind is used for domestic purposes. And when the epidemic disease shows itself, persons using such water are almost sure to suffer.

Module 4

This module will teach you about PETTY MANAGEMENT. All the results of good nursing, as detailed in these notes, may be spoiled or utterly negatived by one defect, viz.: in petty management, or in other words, by not knowing how to manage that what you do when you are there, shall be done when you are not there. The most devoted friend or nurse cannot be always there.

Module 5

In this module, you will learn all about NOISE. Unnecessary noise, or noise that creates an expectation in the mind, is that which hurts a patient. It is rarely the loudness of the noise, the effect upon the organ of the ear itself, which appears to affect the sick. How well a patient will generally bear, e. g., the putting up of a scaffolding close to the house, when he cannot bear the talking, still less the whispering, especially if it be of a familiar voice, outside his door.

Module 6

This module will teach you about VARIETY. The superior cheerfulness of persons suffering severe paroxysms of pain over that of persons suffering from nervous debility has often been remarked upon and attributed to the enjoyment of the former of their intervals of respite. I incline to think that the majority of cheerful cases is to be found among those patients who are not confined to one room, whatever their suffering and that the majority of depressed cases will be seen among those subjected to a long monotony of objects about them.

Module 7

In this module, you will learn all about TAKING FOOD. Every careful observer of the sick will agree in this that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. This want of attention is as remarkable in those who urge upon the sick to do what is quite impossible to them, as in the sick themselves who will not make the effort to do what is perfectly possible to them.

Module 8

This module will teach you about WHAT FOOD? I will mention one or two of the most common errors among women in charge of sick respecting sick diet. One is the belief that beef tea is the most nutritive of all articles. Now, just try and boil down an lb. of beef into beef tea, evaporate your beef tea, and see what is left of your beef.

Module 9

In this module, you will learn all about BED AND BEDDING. A few words upon bedsteads and bedding; and principally as regards patients who are entirely, or almost entirely, confined to bed.

Module 10

This module will teach you about LIGHT. It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room. And that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Module 11

In this module, you will learn all about CLEANLINESS OF ROOMS AND WALLS. It cannot be necessary to tell a nurse that she should be clean, or that she should keep her patient clean,—seeing that the greater part of nursing consists in preserving cleanliness.

Module 12

This module will teach you about PERSONAL CLEANLINESS. Every nurse should keep this fact constantly in mind,—for, if she allows her sick to remain unwashed, or their clothing to remain on them after being saturated with perspiration or other excretion, she is interfering injuriously with the natural processes of health just as effectually as if she were to give the patient a dose of slow poison by the mouth. Poisoning by the skin is no less certain than poisoning by the mouth—only it is slower in its operation.

Module 13

In this module, you will learn all about CHATTERING HOPES AND ADVICE. The sick man to his advisers. “My advisers! Their name is legion. Somehow or other, it seems a provision of the universal destinies, that every man, woman, and child should consider him, her, or itself privileged especially to advise me.

Module 14

OBSERVATION OF THE SICK This module will teach you about. Certainly not of the casual visitor; certainly not of the nurse, while the nurse’s observation is so little exercised as it is now. What you want are facts, not opinions—for who can have any opinion of any value as to whether the patient is better or worse, excepting the constant medical attendant, or the really observing nurse?

Module 14

In this module, you will learn all about CONCLUSION. The whole of the preceding remarks applies even more to children and to a puerperal woman than to patients in general. They also apply to the nursing of surgical, quite as much as to that of medical cases. Indeed, if it is possible, cases of external injury require such care even more than sick.

Method of Assessment:

Upon completion of the course, you will be required to sit for an online multiple-choice quiz based assessment, which will determine whether you have passed the course (60% pass mark). The test will be marked immediately and results will be published instantly.

Certification

After successfully completing the course, you will be able to obtain the certificates. You can claim a PDF certificate by paying a little processing fee of £2. There is an additional fee to obtain a hardcopy certificate which is £9.

Nursing Assistant Course is suitable for anyone who wants to gain extensive knowledge, potential experience and professional skills in the related field. This Nursing Assistant course is CPD accredited so you don’t have to worry about the quality.

Our Nursing Assistant Course is open to all from all academic backgrounds and there is no specific requirements to attend this Nursing Assistant course. It is compatible and accessible from any device including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Tablets etc.

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