Nurse Aide Training and Related
Endorsement Courses Update
CTE Administrative Updates
2012
Agnes Moore, RN
NCDPI Nurse Aide Training Consultant
Nurse Aide I Training
Healthcare Industry
Requirements
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Background Check?
Drug Screening?
Social Security Card?
Vaccinations?
Discipline Problem?
And the list goes on…..
There are two sides to
every story
• Education perspective
• Industry perspective
both have to look through the
lens of law and policy
We are GUEST!
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High school students and their
teachers are guest in the
healthcare facility where clinical
is held
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LEAs cannot overturn facility
policies
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LEAs cannot discriminate
• Goal is to operate where
industry and LEA circles
overlap
Prevention is the Cure
• Pre-Nurse Aide Training enrollment
Counseling must include facts
about:
1. Healthcare Industry Requirements
2. Requirements for completion of Nurse
Aide training
3. NNAAP eligibility routes
4. NC Nurse Aide I Registry
Healthcare Industry
• TB Skin test
• Vaccinations
• Negative Drug Screen
• Negative Background Check
• Others…
must be cleared by HR of the
healthcare facilities…interpreted
differently by some healthcare
facilities
Completion of NA Training
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Final Grade of 75 in the course
Mastery of all curriculum skills
40 hour clinical
Demonstration of a subset of skills
in the healthcare facility and
verification same
• Can pass class and NOT complete
training
NNAAP eligibility routes
• Can take NNAAP with or without
completion of NAT
• Must have Valid SS card and Valid
Drivers License or DMV
Identification to register for the
exam
FYI…
Most healthcare industry facilities
and most post secondary allied
health programs require both
1) certification of completion of NAT
and
2) a listing on the NAI registry
Students and parents need to be aware!
NC Nurse Aide I Registry
• High school students are NOT
exempt from allegations of
resident abuse, resident neglect,
misappropriation of property from a
resident or facility.
• Being listed on the National
Practitioners Database (bad list)
will not go away.
What should LEAs do?
• Determine policies and procedures
that address all the issues
• Use BON method when dealing with
a “conviction”
• LEA Human Resource should take
leadership in the drug screening
process
What should LEAs do?
• Teachers must not be
perceived as imposing
nonacademic
requirements on
students.
What should LEA do?
• Do drug screen and background
check as early as possible keeping
healthcare time restrictions in mind.
• Do it early
• Do it early
• Do it early
• Do it eary
A Resource…
Nurse Aide I Training
Healthcare Industry
Requirements Document
Compliance with NA Clinical and NA competency testing regulations
Authors: Agnes Moore, Joan Thompson, William Hatch
Date: 6-4-2012
Document referenced above emailed to RCs 7-23-2012 with request to post
the document on CTE Admin. Moodle PLC.
and Nurse Aide Training
Supplanting?
NO 
LEAs may have
BOTH high school
based and CCP
nurse aide training!
CCP requirements for Nurse
Aide Training students
To be eligible for enrollment, a high school
student must meet the following criteria:
• Be a high school junior or senior;
• Have a weighted GPA of 3.0 on high school
courses or have the recommendation of the
high school principal or his/her designee; and
• Meet the prerequisites for the career pathway.
• High school counselors should consider
students’ PLAN scores in making pathway
recommendations.
CCP NAT students will take
• NA101Nurse Aide I (6 sem credit)
• NA102Nurse Aide II (6 sem credit)
BON regulation (CC has exemption)
• NA103 Home Health Care (2 sem
credit)
14 semester hours
CCP Home Health Care
Course
• Does NOT carry the Home
Care Aide Endorsement!
• High School course Public
Health Fundamentals
DOES carry the Home Care
Aide endorsement!
Nurse Aide Training
Caution: Young juniors
who become NAI will not
be old enough to work
and their listing will
expire!
Nurse Aide Training
• There is no DHSR oversight
regarding prerequisite being met.
• There is no NCDPI-NAT office
oversight regarding prerequisites
being met.
High School counselors must
assure prerequisites are met!
Nurse Aide Training
FYI
The NC Board of Nursing
Regulates NAII classes.
Community College system
partners with NCBON to
offer NA II training.
Nurse Aide Training
CCP NAIIs cannot
work as a NAII until
they have graduated
from high school.
NAT Program Regulation
• DHSR will approve teachers,
programs, and provide support for
CCP classes
• NCDPI NAT office will approve
teachers, programs and provide
support for high school nurse aide
training programs
High School Based NAT
Student can leave high school
with three credentials:
1.NAI
2.Home Care Aide Endorsement
3.Geriatric Aide Endorsement
HS students can
receive their NAI
after successful
completion of
Nursing
Fundamentals
or AHSII (this year
and by passing
the NNAAP
competency exam.
only)
HS Students can receive
the industry recognized
Home Care Aide
endorsement by
successful completion
of Public
Health
Fundamentals and
after being listed on the
NAI registry as a NAI.
HS Students can
receive the industry
recognized Geriatric
Aide endorsement
by successful
completion of
Fundamentals
of Gerontology
and being listed on
the NAI registry as
NAI.
NAI Endorsement Courses
• Public Health Fundamentals and
• Fundamentals of Gerontology
• May be taken Before or after
NAI training.
Nurse Aide and NA Endorsement Courses
High School Program of Study Sequences
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Health
Science II*
Public Health Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Health
Science II*
Public Health Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Health
Science II*
Public Health Fundamentals
Nurse Aide I
Pathway
Fundamentals of Gerontology
PLTW Human
Body Systems
Health
Science II*
Public Health Fundamentals
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
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Nurse Aide and NA Endorsement Courses
High School Program of Study
Sequences
Nurse Aide I
Pathway
Nurse Aide I
Pathway
Nurse Aide I
Pathway
Nurse Aide I
Pathway
Health
Science I
when available
Allied Health
Science I
through ES
transition
Medical
Science I
through ES
transition
PLTW Human
Body Systems
Health
Science II*
Health
Science II*
Health
Science II*
Health
Science II*
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Nursing
Fundamentals
2 credits
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Public Health Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Public Health Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Public Health Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Gerontology
Public Health Fundamentals
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Questions?
Contact Agnes Moore, RN
NCDPI NAT office
Agnes.moore@dpi.nc.gov
919-807-3907