Certified Nurse Aide & Home Health Aide

CNA/HHA Program Clock Hour Distribution:

CNA/HHA Deeming Program Schedule Options:

Prerequisite:

• None

Admission Requirements:

1. Complete the Student Application online or in person.
2. Complete the Enrollment Agreement in person or electronically.
3. Minimum age: 16 Years old.
4. Education: Ability to read, write, and comprehend in English.
5. Current Government-issued Photo ID: e.g., driver’s license, passport, military card, green card, work authorization card, or tribal card.
6. Social Security Card or replacement letter from the SSN Administration's office.
7. A criminal background check (Can be done at School for a cost of $35.00).
8. Tuberculin (TB) Skin Test (PPD Test). (Offered at MedNoc for a cost of $35.00).
9. Current BLS Certification before attending clinical. (This can be done at School for a fee of $60.00). 

***NOTE: Some clinical sites may require additional requirements such as drug screens, immunization records, flu shots during flu season, or wearing a mask at the clinical site. The school will inform you if any of these items are required on the day of enrollment.

CNA/HHA Deeming Program Learning Objectives:

The CNA/HHA Deeming training shall include, but is not limited to, each of the following subject areas:

1. The Role of Nurse Aide
   • Communication and Interpersonal Skills.
   • Infection Control.
   • Safety/Emergency Procedures, Including The Heimlich Maneuver.
   • Promoting Residents’ Independence.
   • Respecting Residents' Rights.
2. Basic Nursing Skills
   • Taking and recording vital signs.
   • Measuring and recording height and weight.
   • Caring for the residents' environment.
   • Recognizing abnormal changes in body functioning and the importance of reporting such changes to a supervisor.
   • Caring for residents when death is imminent.
3. Personal Care Skills, Including.
   • Bathing
   • Grooming, including mouth care.
   • Dressing
   • Toileting
   • Assisting with eating and hydration.
   • Proper feeding techniques.
   • Skin care.
   • Transfers, positioning, and turning.
4. Mental Health and Social Service Needs.
   • Modifying the aide's behavior in response to residents' behavior.
   • Awareness of developmental tasks associated with the aging process.
   • How to respond to resident behavior.
   • Allowing the resident to make personal choices, providing, and reinforcing other behavior consistent with the resident's dignity.
   • Using the resident's family as a source of emotional support.
5. Care Of Cognitively Impaired Residents.
   • Techniques for addressing the unique needs and behaviors of individuals with dementia Alzheimer's and others).
   • Communicating with cognitively impaired residents.
   • Understanding the behavior of cognitively impaired residents.
   • Appropriate responses to the behavior of cognitively impaired residents.
   • Methods of reducing the effects of cognitive impairments.
6. Basic Restorative Services.
   • Training the resident in self-care according to the resident's abilities.
   • Use of assistive devices in transferring, ambulation, eating, and dressing.
   • Maintenance of range of motion.
   • Proper turning and positioning in bed and chair.
   • Bowel and bladder training.
   • Care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices.
7. Residents' Rights.
   • Providing privacy and maintenance of confidentiality.
   • Promoting the residents' right to make personal choices to accommodate their needs.
   • Giving assistance in resolving grievances and disputes.
   • Providing needed assistance in getting to and participating in resident and family groups and other activities
   • Maintaining care and security of residents' personal possessions.
   • Promoting the resident's right to be free from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect and the need to report any instances of such treatment to appropriate facility staff.
   • Avoiding the need for restraints in accordance with current professional standards.
8. Home Health Aide Deeming.
   • Communication skills.
   • Observation, reporting, and documentation of client status and the care or services furnished.
   • Taking and recording temperature, pulse, and respiration.
   • Basic infection control procedures.
   • Basic elements of body functioning and changes in body function that must be reported to the aide’s supervisor.
   • Maintenance of a clean, safe, and healthy environment.
   • Recognizing an emergency and necessary emergency procedures.
   • The physical, emotional, and developmental needs of, and ways to work with, the populations served by the home care agency, including the need for respect for the client, and the client’s privacy and property.
   • Appropriate and safe techniques in personal hygiene and grooming including but not limited to the following: bed bath, sponge, tub or shower bath, shampoo, sink, tub, or bed, nail and skin care, oral hygiene, and toileting and elimination.
   • Safe transfer techniques and ambulation.
   • Normal range of motion and positioning.
   • Adequate nutrition and fluid intake.
   • Any other task that the home care agency may choose to have the home care aide perform.

Competency Examination Information:

MedNoc Training College is a Test Site for American Universities & Colleges Consultant LLC dba Somanoc Testing & Assessment. MedNoc Training College uses Somanoc Testing & Assessment to administer the CNA and CNA/HHA Deeming Competency Examination for Oklahoma certification. To register for your exam, visit www.somanoc.com. To familiarize yourself with the Somanoc’s testing policies, procedures, and exam registration process, visit the Somanoc’s website and read The Candidate Handbook.

Somanoc Testing & Assessment Exam Details for CNA and CNA/HHA Deeming.

Students have THREE (3) attempts to take and pass both the Knowledge and the Skills components of the CNA or the CNA/HHA Deeming state exam. If the candidate fails to pass both components (Knowledge & Skills), they shall be required only to retake the exam component they failed. However, if the candidate fails after their third attempt and ends up retraining, they will be required to start testing attempts afresh by taking both the knowledge and skills exam. Failure to pass after the third attempt requires students to retake the Course and submit new payments for training costs and state exams. For each exam attempt, the Student must make a payment.

LTC (CNA) & HHA Certification Renewal Process:

The Long-Term Care Nurse Aide (LTCNA) certification must be renewed every two years from the original date of issue. To renew the CNA certification, you must submit:

• Fill out and submit the Renewal Application ODH Form 717 to the Oklahoma Nurse Aide Registry.
• No renewal fee for LTC (CNA).
• Ten ($10) HHA renewal fee.
• Employment Verification – Must submit proof of 8 hours of paid work in nursing or nursing-related services during the 24-month certification time frame. Acceptable proof may include: pay stub, W-2, or a signed letter from the Administrator showing attesting that you have worked for pay providing nursing aide-related services for at least 8 hours within the last 24 months.

HHA Certification Renewal Process: