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Active as of Fall Semester 2018
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Home Health Aide
2. Course Prefix & Number:
NSGA 1115
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course introduces the skills and knowledge required of the Home Health Aide-Homemaker.
5. Placement Tests Required:
Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
NSGA 1115 - Home Health Aide
All Course(s) from the following...
Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
NSGA 1110 | Nursing Assistant | 3 cr. |
9. Co-requisite Courses:
NSGA 1115 - Home Health Aide
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
Northwest Technical College, Home Health Aide, 1 credit
Itasca Community College, Home Health Aide Training, 1 credit
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course fulfills a requirement for the following program(s):
Home Health Aide Certificate
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
Demonstrate oral communication skills |
Able to demonstrate effective communication with other members of the health care team by reporting observations. |
Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Communicate effectively in a professional manner with other students, instructors and health care members. |
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Demonstrate skills appropriate to the role of the home health aide by following a sequence of actions to provide safe, effective care to clients. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Describe role of the home health aide;
- Describe responsibilities to client and family within the established care plan;
- Demonstrate accurate recording and reporting of observations and activities;
- Demonstrate maintenance of a clean healthy environment; and
- Describe available community resources.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Introduction to Home Health Care Philosophy of Home Care
- Basic human needs
- Discuss growth and development throughout one’s lifespan
- Discuss family dynamics
- Discuss how stress affects a family
- Safe and clean environment
- Describe maintaining safety in the client’s home
- Discuss emergencies in the home
- Describe homemaking duties
- Personal care
- Discuss providing personal care to a client in their home
- Discuss and identify important factors when providing personal care to an infant or a child
- Elimination
- Discuss meeting elimination needs of the home health care client
- Discuss elimination factors concerning infants and children who are Home Health Care clients
- Activity and exercise
- Discuss assisting the adult client with activity and exercise
- Describe appropriate activities for infants, toddlers or children
- Caring for Home Health clients with special needs; death and dying
- Discuss common disorder/diseases of the Home Health Care Client
- Discuss the emotional response of a client with special needs
- Discuss providing care to a client with special needs
- Describe guidelines for assisting clients to self-administer medications
- Discuss providing care to a client who wishes to die at home
- Discuss assisting the Home Health Care Team to monitor therapies
- Identify Home Health Care Services available to clients and their families
- Vital signs and measures
- Foods and fluids
- Discuss measuring vital signs in the client’s home
- Discuss measuring an infant, toddler, child and adolescent’s vital signs in the home
- Discuss methods of providing oxygen to Home Care Clients
- Communication orientation to work environment
- Discuss the Home Health Aide relationship with the client’s family
- Discuss methods of communicating with a Home Health Care Agency
- Discuss appropriate recording of the care given to a Home Health Care Client
- Orientation to the Health Care Facility site
- Shadowing experience
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Home Health Aide
2. Course Prefix & Number:
NSGA 1115
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course introduces the skills and knowledge required of the Home Health Aide-Homemaker.
5. Placement Tests Required:
Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
NSGA 1115 - Home Health Aide
All Course(s) from the following...
Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
NSGA 1110 | Nursing Assistant | 3 cr. |
9. Co-requisite Courses:
NSGA 1115 - Home Health Aide
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
Northwest Technical College, Home Health Aide, 1 credit
Itasca Community College, Home Health Aide Training, 1 credit
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course fulfills a requirement for the following program(s):
Home Health Aide Certificate
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
Demonstrate oral communication skills |
Able to demonstrate effective communication with other members of the health care team by reporting observations. |
Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Communicate effectively in a professional manner with other students, instructors and health care members. |
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Demonstrate skills appropriate to the role of the home health aide by following a sequence of actions to provide safe, effective care to clients. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Describe role of the home health aide;
- Describe responsibilities to client and family within the established care plan;
- Demonstrate accurate recording and reporting of observations and activities;
- Demonstrate maintenance of a clean healthy environment; and
- Describe available community resources.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Introduction to Home Health Care Philosophy of Home Care
- Basic human needs
- Discuss growth and development throughout one’s lifespan
- Discuss family dynamics
- Discuss how stress affects a family
- Safe and clean environment
- Describe maintaining safety in the client’s home
- Discuss emergencies in the home
- Describe homemaking duties
- Personal care
- Discuss providing personal care to a client in their home
- Discuss and identify important factors when providing personal care to an infant or a child
- Elimination
- Discuss meeting elimination needs of the home health care client
- Discuss elimination factors concerning infants and children who are Home Health Care clients
- Activity and exercise
- Discuss assisting the adult client with activity and exercise
- Describe appropriate activities for infants, toddlers or children
- Caring for Home Health clients with special needs; death and dying
- Discuss common disorder/diseases of the Home Health Care Client
- Discuss the emotional response of a client with special needs
- Discuss providing care to a client with special needs
- Describe guidelines for assisting clients to self-administer medications
- Discuss providing care to a client who wishes to die at home
- Discuss assisting the Home Health Care Team to monitor therapies
- Identify Home Health Care Services available to clients and their families
- Vital signs and measures
- Foods and fluids
- Discuss measuring vital signs in the client’s home
- Discuss measuring an infant, toddler, child and adolescent’s vital signs in the home
- Discuss methods of providing oxygen to Home Care Clients
- Communication orientation to work environment
- Discuss the Home Health Aide relationship with the client’s family
- Discuss methods of communicating with a Home Health Care Agency
- Discuss appropriate recording of the care given to a Home Health Care Client
- Orientation to the Health Care Facility site
- Shadowing experience