RESTORATIVE NURSING ASSISTANT

This program provides CNA’s (Certified Nursing Assistants) knowledge and skills to advance their career in long term care.  The nursing assistants will receive training in theory and practical application of restorative techniques. Restorative Nursing Assistants can find employment in nursing homes, assisted living communities, and long-term care facilities.

The RNA program is critical to assuring that residents maintain their highest practical level of functioning in long term care.  RNA’s provide specific treatments to residents so to restore and maintain the strength, coordination, and skills to ambulate and perform functional activities of daily living.

This is a 16-hour two-day course consisting of lecture and lab in the classroom is only an authorized course for Certified Nurse Assistant. The curriculum includes lecture and demonstration followed by a skill review for each student. The purpose of the course is to give CNA's comprehensive training in the rehabilitative process to become RNA's. The course describes the rehab team, detailed instruction on the various conditions which affect rehab residents, and the basic care and specialized handling procedures that facilitate resident recovery and maximize caregiver efficiency.