Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

What is a Certified Nurse Aide?

Certified Nursing Aides (CNAs) help care for physically or mentally ill, injured, disabled, or informed individuals confined to hospitals, long term care nursing facilities, and mental health settings. Aides perform routine tasks under the supervision of nursing and medical staff.

Duties may include:

• Serving meals
• Making beds
• Helping patients to eat, dress, and bathe
• Answering patients' call lights
• Providing skin care to patients
• Taking the patient's temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure
• Assisting patients in getting into and out of bed and walking
• Keeping patients' rooms neat
• Observing and monitoring patients' physical, mental, and emotional conditions and reporting changes to the nursing or medical staff

DMC CNA Program:

Del Mar College's Nurse Aide Certification Program will prepare students for entry-level positions as nurse aides and achieving a level of knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to provide basic care for residents of long-term care facilities. Topics will include resident’s rights, communication, and safety, observation, reporting and assisting residents in maintaining basic comfort as well as emphasizing effective interaction with members of the health care team.

Classroom instruction will include lecture, discussions, demonstrations and active student participation. Upon successful completion of the program, students will be eligible for the National Nurse Aide examination which includes an evaluation of skills performance and written comprehension competencies. At no time, is a Del Mar CNA candidate to perform any skills without the direct supervision of their assigned Del Mar/Tx DHHS approved instructor.

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Course Schedule

CNA schedule for 2025 is being built for the class dates, times, locations, and costs. We thank you for your patience and we will provide an update as soon as possible!

Enrollment and completion of both the Lecture & Clinical classes is required to obtain the CNA Certification. Students must have also completed a CPR certification, or must take a CPR class to get certified in order to succeed in the CNA Program.

 

Admission Requirements

• Completed Nurse Aide Training Program Application (pgs. 7-12)
• Completed Health History Form
• Copies of Tuberculosis Test (TB) within the last year, and ALL of the following Immunization records:
  • VARICELLA (CHICKEN POX) IMMUNIZATION RECORD
  • HEPATITIS B VACCINATION
  • MEASLES, MUMPS AND RUBELLA VACCINATION
  • NEGATIVE PPD T.B. TEST
  • TETANUS-DIPHTHERIA TOXOID WITHIN LAST 10 YEARS
  • MENINGITIS/MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINE (for applicants ages 21 and younger)
• Concentra Drug Screen Custody Control Form
  • Submit your receipt from Concentra to Del Mar with your application.
  • Drug screen is valid for 30 days, please schedule your drug screen 30-45 days prior to the first day of class.
• Hospital requires COVID vaccination or affidavit.
• American Heart Association CPR Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider and Heartsaver First Aid certification

Application

Download the application packet: HERE

Completely fill out pages 7-12

Interested students must apply for the Nurse Aide Training Program by filling out the application packet, and submitting all required application documents to healthcareopenenrollment@delmar.edu

OR delivering it physically to 3209 S. Staples St. Room 115, Corpus Christi, TX 78411. DMC Map

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Students are expected to be proficient in English: reading, writing, speaking and comprehension.

• Required Course Textbooks/Workbooks

  Hartman's nursing assistant care: the basics 6th edition

   ISBN: 978-1-60425-141-8

  Hartman's nursing assistant care: the workbook 6th edition

   ISBN: 978-1-60425-142-5

  Textbooks may be purchased at:
  Del Mar College On-Campus Bookstore Heritage – Harvin Center
  Corner of Baldwin Blvd. & Ayers
  (361) 884-1823

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