Continuing Education
Nurse Aide Program Director & Instructor Training Seminar
January 26-27, 2010
April 27-28, 2010
August 17-18, 2010
October 26-27, 2010
Cost: $250
Contact hours: 12.5
Attendance at the entire session is required and completion of the seminar evaluation to receive contact hours.
Seminar Location: IUPUI Greenwood campus, 555 East County Line Road, Greenwood, IN. In the Indiana-American Water Company building.
Hotels: A room block has NOT been reserved at any hotel. The hotels listed below are only suggestions.
Holiday Inn Express Greenwood, 1180 Wilson Drive, Greenwood, IN. 317-881-0600.
Hilton Garden Inn, 5255 Noggle Way, Indianapolis, IN 317-888-4814.
Faculty (subject to change without notice):
Janice A. Ward, MSN, RN, Director, Office of Lifelong Learning, Indiana University School of Nursing
Margaret Altom, BSN, RN, C, Staff Development Consultant, Indianapolis, Indiana
This course prepares the RN who will serve as the program director and the licensed nurse (RN or LPN) who will be the designated instructor for the 105-hour Basic Nurse Aide Training Program. You’ll focus on the concepts essential to teaching adults as well as techniques for preparing and teaching nurse aides in classroom and clinical settings. You’ll develop a program of learning according to established criteria. The setting for the training program is a nursing facility-based program or a non-nursing facility-based program in accordance with state and federal regulations.
You will:
- Review the criteria necessary to develop the Basic Nurse Aide Training course in accordance with state and federal regulations.
- Recognize the impact of a facility’s environment on the teaching and learning.
- Apply adult learning concepts.
- Learn the values and cultural differences that may impact learning.
- Examine teaching and learning strategies.
- Write behaviorally-stated objectives in order to objectively measure a learner’s performance.
- Specify the tools and techniques used to assess the learning of the basic nurse aide trainee.
- Recognize factors influencing the motivation and learning of the basic nurse aide trainee.
- Plan a learning experience using behaviorally-stated objectives, content, teaching and learning strategies, time frame, and methods of evaluation.
The Indiana University School of Nursing Office of Lifelong Learning is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission of Accreditation.
Approved by the Indiana State Board of Registration and Education for Health Facilities Administrators for 12.5 credit hours of continuing education for health facility administrators.
This course meets all the criteria established by the Indiana State Department of Health for the conduct of courses for program directors.
Any questions about the qualifications required to serve as program director or designated instructor should be directed to the Indiana State Department of Health at (317) 233-7616.
Please notify the Office of Lifelong Learning at (317) 274-7779 if special accommodations are needed.
