Nursing Assistants are members of the health care team. They help care for patients under the supervision of a professional registered nurse in hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care. Blackhawk Technical College has two Nursing Assistant Courses.

Some basic tasks and procedures performed by skilled nursing assistants are bed-making techniques, personal bedside care of the patient, measuring intake and output, caring for patients in isolation, taking temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressures, serving and feeding patients, specimen collection, and pre-op and post-op patient care.

The course contains 90 hours of classroom instruction and laboratory experience and 90 hours of clinical experience working with patients under the supervision of the instructor. A textbook, handout book and videos are used in theory. A laboratory room is used for practice. The written exams and return demonstrations will be used for evaluation.