Certified Nursing Assistant
Nursing assistants or nursing assistants assist a registered (D) Old and nurses in their work in home care services, nursing homes, and ( rarely) hospitals, with access in recent years, privatized hospitals increasingly about this ( salary) costs Cheaper alternative carers.
Training in organizations
The training of nurse's aide or the Nursing helper, such as the Red Cross or the Maltese Relief Service, offered for years by various associations in the form of a course that is completed with a combined internal audit. Focus is on the elderly.
The nursing assistants courses basically consist of two parts. Several weeks of classes ( total number of hours approx 80-150 ) and concomitantly or after an internship, often in an elderly care facility. Content of the training is to impart practical skills in primary care, associations, first aid, storage in the hospital bed, eating anreichen, personal hygiene in bed, etc. Of the 120 hours of the course are 55 hours in the classroom practically practiced.
After the training, the participants complete example, a 14- day treatment placement to consolidate the learned handles in practice. An earlier occupation in nursing can be partially credited to this. Select the nursing internship, participants not itself everywhere it is used for part of the financing of the course.
The tests are handled very differently.
In part, the course fees are paid about 300 €; at Bavarian Fachoberschulen they are part of the training in the social branch. With unemployment the course fees to determine the suitability for a nursing profession (as of 2006) are often taken in the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Employment Agency as " orientation " measure.
These courses for nursing assistants / in / Nursing aides are " basic qualification " for the health and medical care or the health care professions. They provide an ideal stepping stone into the professional world of nursing and medicine, because the associated ancillary activities provide an insight into the desired professions. A claim to a particular professional activity does not arise. ( The Maltese emphasize this explicitly on their homepage. )
In addition, in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia from 1 January 2007 nursing assistants complete an advanced course of treatment care in accordance with § 37 para 2 SGB V, power group I, and may in the home care change with appropriate training certificate and two years of professional practice, for example, associations, blood sugar levels measure and give subcutaneous injections such as insulin.
Some organizations gain through these courses also coming specifically for their association's activities or to provide funding for the federal government to show that they are active in the field of disaster preparedness. These funds may have a living wage for the association. Therefore, the fact perhaps could also be a non-profit effect of the rates derived.