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• All applicants must be able to meet all Technical Standards required of the program. Those Standards are as follows:
• Lift up to 50 pounds routinely
• Able to reach, bend and stoop often
• Able to push and pull routinely
• Have full use of both hands, wrists and shoulders
• Distinguish audible sounds
• Able to distinguish colors correctly
• Work standing on the feet 80 percent of the time
• Interact compassionately and effectively with the sick and injured
• Communicate effectively with patients and other health care professionals
The Nurse Aide Certi cate has limited enrollment. Students will be accepted into the courses based on application submission date and meeting the college testing requirement.
Any student interested in completing Nurse Aide courses outside of the certi cate pro- gram, please visit: www.southwesterncc.edu/continuing-education for availability.
PROGRESSION CRITERIA
In order to progress to the Spring Semester, a student must:
• Be currently licensed as a Certi ed Nurse Aide I with the North Carolina Division of
Health Service Regulation with no substantiated ndings of abuse, neglect or misap-
propriation of resident property.
• Must have current CPR certi cation for Healthcare Providers that must remain cur-
rent through clinical rotation. CPR certi cation will be included in the Nurse Aide I class for those who need it.
CLINICAL EDUCATION
Clinical education will be provided at cooperating hospitals or health care facilities within the area served by the College. Transportation and associated expenses are the sole re- sponsibility of the student.
NOTES
1. Applications must be updated annually by applicants who were not accepted the previous year.
2. All students admitted into a health science program will be required to submit to a criminal background check and drug testing prior to enrollment each academic year. The results of these tests could affect the student’s ability to progress in the program.
3. All students completing a health sciences program may be required, by an external testing agency, to submit to a criminal background check and/or drug test prior to a state or national licensing/certi cation board approving the graduate to sit for licen- sure/certi cation exams.
FACULTY
Donna Pruitt Conner, Program Coordinator d_conner@southwesterncc.edu 828.339.4459 or 800.447.4091, ext. 4459
2019-20 Catalog