Certified Nursing Assistant - CNA

Documents Required: (All docs should be attested by a grade 17 officer)

1. 04 attested copies of Intermediate / Matric Marks Sheets
2. 04 attested copies of Intermediate / Matric Certificates
3. 04 attested copies of Domicile of candidate
4. 04 attested copies of PRC on Form "C"
5. 04 attested copies of CNIC / B- form of candidate
6. 06 photographs
7. Affidavit original as per sample attached

• Marital Status: Unmarried or married both are allowed
• Physical Fitness: A medical fitness certificate is required by concerned civil physician/designated physician for all applicants.
• Duration of Course: Two (02) years (24 months)
• Uniform : As per PNC white Shalwar, Qameez with half sleeves and pink head cover
• Student Records: Students must receive marks sheet at the completion of course, the transcripts can be given to all students who successfully complete the courses.

Goals:

In keeping with our philosophy, the major goals of PNC to start this program are to:

• Educate nurses with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes and with clinical competency.
• Maintain a safe and healthy environment for the prevention of disease, promotion and maintenance of health.
• Provide information, counseling and health education to individual family and community.
• Participate in screening, case identification and management of common minor illness and injuries.
• Participate actively in professional organization for the improvement of the nursing profession.

Core Competencies:

1. Critical thinking
2. Communication
3. Evidence Based Practice
4. Technical knowledge

Critical thinking:

Critical thinking underlies independent and interdependent decision making. Critical thinking includes questioning, analysis, syntheses, interpretation, inference, inductive and deductive reasoning, intuition, application, and creativity.

Course work or clinical experiences should provide the graduate with the knowledge and skills to:

• Use nursing and other appropriate theories and models, and an appropriate ethical framework,
• Apply research-based knowledge from nursing and the sciences as the basis for practice,
• Use clinical judgment and decision-making skills,
• Engage in self reflection and collegial dialogue about professional practice,
• Evaluate nursing care outcomes through the acquisition of data and the questioning of inconsistencies allowing for the revision of actions and goals,
• Engage in creative problem solving.

Evidence - based practice:

It involves assessment, which is gathering information about the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing interventions based on the findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes. It also includes understanding the family, community, or population and utilizing data from organizations and systems in planning and delivering care.

Course work or clinical experiences should provide the graduate with the knowledge and skills to:

• Perform a risk assessment of the individual including lifestyle, family and genetic history, and other risk factors using scholarly research literature,
• Perform a holistic assessment of the individual across the lifespan, including a health history that includes spiritual, social, cultural, and psychological assessment, as well as a comprehensive physical exam using bedside interview with patient and relatives.
• Evaluate an individual's capacity to assume responsibility for self care.
• Perform a community health risk assessment and provide outcome based interventions,
• Used evidence based findings to diagnose, plan, deliver and evaluate quality care.

Technical knowledge:

Acquisition and use of technical skills are required for the delivery of nursing care. While the baccalaureate graduate must be adept at performing skills, major roles will also include teaching, delegating, and supervising the performance of skilled tasks by others. Consequently, graduates must approach their understanding and use of skills in a sophisticated theoretical and analytic manner. The acquisition of new skills is an ongoing competent of the nursing career. Skills development should focus on the mastery of core scientific principles that underline all skills, thus preparing the graduate to incorporate current and future technical skills into other nursing responsibilities, and apply skills in diverse contexts of health care delivery.

• The teaching, learning and assessment of any given skill should serve as an exemplar that focuses as much on helping the student learn the process for life long self-mastery of needed skills, as on the learning of the specific skill itself. The emphasis must be on helping students identify those skills essential for baccalaureate nursing practice and understanding the scientific principles that underlie the application of these skills.
• The graduate should be able to perform, teach, delegate, and supervise these skills with safety and competence. As nursing practice changes to meet the needs of contemporary health care delivery, required skills and expectations related to the graduate's competence must be reviewed and revised.

Course work or clinical experiences should provide the graduate with the knowledge and skills to:

• Monitor and assess vital signs, including pulse and respiratory rates, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and three-lead electrocardiogram
• Provide appropriate individual hygiene maintenance;
• Apply infection control measure;
• Assess and manage wounds, including irrigation, application of dressings, and suture / staple removal;
• Provide and teach ostomy care;
• Apply heating and cooling devices;
• Apply and teach proper positioning and mobility techniques, including range of motion exercises, transferring, ambulating, and use of assistive devices;
• Provide nursing care using proper safety techniques, including the use of all systems, identification procedures, appropriate use of restrains, and basic fore, radiation, and hazardous materials protection;
• Administer CPR
• Perform specimen collection techniques;
• Perform accurate intake and output calculations and recording;
• Administer medications by all routes;
• Initiate, assess, and regulate intravenous therapies;
• Demonstrate the proper use and care for various therapeutic tubes and drains.
• Provide comfort and pain reduction measures including positioning and therapeutic touch;
• Provide care of the respiratory system, including chest physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, resuscitation, spirometry, and suctioning;
• Provide teaching, and emotional and physical support in preparation for therapeutic procedure; and Provide pre-operative and post-operative teaching and care.

POLICIES / RULES AND REGULATIONS

Attendance Policy:

Theory Classes According to PNC rule students are expected to maintain 100% attendance in all theory classes. However, in cases of emergency/sickness students may miss up to 15% (cumulative) of classes. If a student misses more than 15% (cumulative) per semester/term he/she may be asked to repeat the semester/term/year or withdrawn/expelled from the program if the problem persists. It is the responsibility of the student to catch up for the missed contents of the class if absence is due to justifiable reason.
In each academic year, students are allowed annual leave of one calendar month.

Clinical / Skills Lab

Students are expected to maintain 100% attendance during clinical experience. Students will require making up any absence on clinical areas. However, in case of emergency/sickness students may miss up to 4 days (cumulative) of clinical experience. Four days of justifiable leave in clinical area has to be made up by the students. More than 4 days of leave in a semester may result in repeating the semester/year or expelling from the year.
A student who is unable to attend a clinical for any reason must notify the faculty/ ward in charge prior to the clinical. A student who is sick on a clinical day must be seen by a physician at their respective/designated institutions.
Clinical conferences are part of clinical experience and should be attended regularly.

Clinical Experience

Students in the 2 years CNA program will have clinical experience based on curriculum requirements. Evening and night shifts during clinical practicum will be planned after first year as per curricular requirement. It is mandatory for students to be supervised by faculty/clinical preceptor/instructor whenever they are on clinical areas.