Start Your Career as a CNA in Arizona

Our CNA Programs provide all the core knowledge and skills you'll need, including:

• Communication, interpersonal skills, and documentation

• Infection control

• Safety and emergency procedures, including abdominal thrusts for foreign body airway obstruction and cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• Patient or resident independence

• Patient or resident rights

• Recognizing and reporting abuse, mistreatment or neglect to a supervisor

• Basic nursing assistant skills, including:

  • Taking vital signs, height, and weight using standing, wheelchair and bed scales

  • Maintaining a patient's or resident's environment

  • Observing and reporting pain

  • Assisting with diagnostic tests including obtaining specimens

  • Providing care for patients or residents with drains and tubes including catheters and feeding tubes

  • Recognizing and reporting abnormal patient or resident physical, psychological, or mental changes to a supervisor

  • Applying clean bandages

  • Providing peri-operative care

  • Assisting in admitting, transferring, or discharging patients or residents

• Personal care skills, including: Bathing, skin care, and dressing, Oral and denture care, Shampoo and hair care, Fingernail care, Toileting, perineal, and ostomy care, Feeding and hydration, including proper feeding techniques and use of assistive devices in feeding

• Age specific, mental health, and social service needs, including:

  • Modifying the nursing assistant's behavior in response to patient or resident behavior

  • Demonstrating an awareness of the developmental tasks and physiologic changes associated with the aging process

  • Responding to patient or resident behavior,

  • Allowing the resident or patient to make personal choices and providing and reinforcing other behavior consistent with the individual’s dignity

  • Providing culturally sensitive care

  • Caring for the dying patient or resident

  • Using the patient's or resident's family as a source of emotional support for the resident or patient

• Care of the cognitively impaired patient or resident including;

  • Understanding and addressing the unique needs and behaviors of patients or residents with dementia or other cognitive impairment,

  • Communicating with cognitively impaired patients or residents,

  • Reducing the effects of cognitive impairment, and

  • Appropriate responses to the behavior of cognitively impaired individuals.

• Skills for basic restorative services, including: Body mechanics; Resident self-care; Assistive devices used in transferring, ambulating and dressing; Range of motion exercises; Bowel and bladder training; Care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices; and Turning and positioning a resident in bed, transferring a resident between bed and chair and positioning a resident in a chair.