Modern medical technology has also increased the need to provide care to those who never fully recover.
Nurse assistants provide a variety of support services for other health-care professionals.
Their primary responsibility is to provide basic bedside care, such as bathing, making beds, taking vital signs, assisting in feeding, serving trays, answering call lights and ambulating patients. Students successfully completing the first semester of this program are eligible to take the Texas Department of Health certified Nurse Assistant skills and written exam to be listed on the Texas Registry as a certified Nurse Assistant. Students must maintain a numerical average of 78 or better in each Nurse Assistant curriculum course to graduate from the program and receive the Certificate of Completion. Results of a prescribed physical examination. Proof of required immunizations.