The 16 hours of required training prior to direct contact with a resident is met. The clinical facilities used for student learning are within a fifty-mile radius of the college. Students are responsible for their own transportation to these facilities. The faculty believes and supports promoting positive educational experiences to increase the individual feelings of self-worth. The faculty believe the teaching-learning process should be a reciprocal process promoting the holistic care concept of nursing.
Education is a lifelong process that contributes positively to man's place in society.
Program graduates are to be competent in the technical areas of patient care in long-term care facilities and in home settings. Reid State Technical College will accomplish program objectives by providing students with a comprehensive general education and technical training in the core area of nursing assisting and home health care. The occupational skill preparation should meet the OBRA and Foundation for Hospice and Homecare recognized skill standards. The college will ensure program quality through internal certification of graduate competencies and external certification of graduates and program accreditation by the Foundation for Hospice and HomeCare. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook , nursing aides held about 1,065,000 jobs in 1994, psychiatric aides held about 105,000 jobs.