Bramstein School of Applied Studies

The BRAMSTEIN SCHOOL OF APPLIED STUDIES offers a training program for Nurse Aides who wish to become Certified Home Health Aides. This is an intensive and comprehensive course that includes lab skills training, classroom sessions, and hands-on clinical experience.

Personal Care Aide to Home Health Aide

We help students learn about their future roles as home health aides when they will be tasked to care for patients in hospitals, nursing homes or private homes. We also teach our students effective time management and proper documentation methods when caring for their patients. This 67-hour course also includes an 8-hour clinical externship.

The course covers patient care fundamentals such as:

• Medical knowledge
• Assistance with Activities of Daily Living
• Infection Control and Prevention of Common Diseases
• Mobility Support and Transfers
• Meals Assistance and Feeding
• Personal Hygiene Maintenance
• Handling psychosocial issues

Home Health Aide

The Home Health Aide is an 83-hour program designed to prepare students for work in caring for individual withint he confinement of their home. This program is taught with a combination through lecture, DVDs, role-playing, and classroom lab practice; students learn procedural skills such as vital signs, bathing, dressing and positioning. The classroom is equipped with hospital beds and medical equipment to practice skills prior to the 8-hour clinical externship rotation.

• Provides health care tasks, personal hygiene services, housekeeping tasks and other related support services essential to the consumer’s health.
• Observes, records and reports all changes to supervisor. All HHA’s must demonstrate competence in performing the necessary skills and only perform those skills on the plan of care.

Nurse aides or nurse assistants render patient care through the performance of routine tasks. They usually fulfill their duties under the supervision of a registered nurse.

Nurse Aide / Assistant

The Nurse Assistant program is designed student with knowledge and skills necessary to perform basic health care skills. It prepares you to function in the role of nurse assistant under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. The course curriculum meets the requirements of the NYS Education Department. You will need to successfully demonstrate the patient care skills mandated, complete the 100 hours of classrooms lectures/lab and 25 hours of clinical rotations at a medical facility or long term care settings. Additionally, you will receive 10 contact hours of Vocational Math and Career Development to further your skills.

Successful completion of the course which is comprised of theory, lab, and clinical is required to be eligible to take the Prometric NYS CNA Competency Exam.

Nature of Work: Nursing assistants can perform routine tasks for caring for patients. Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, the duties might include: aiding patients to transfer in and out of the bed, wheelchair, walking, performing range of motion exercises with bed ridden patients, bed bathing, shaving, oral hygiene, taking temperatures, vital signs and blood pressures, feeding, changing bed linens and maintaining safety and cleanliness in the patient’s general surroundings. The practice of good hygiene and hand washing is expected at all times in the clinical setting.

Opens Doors to…

Career And Educational Opportunities:

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Vocational – PN
• Associate / Baccalaureate Degrees
• Masters Degree

Employment of nurse aide advanced is projected to grow 315 percent from 2012 to 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, much faster than the average for all occupations. As the baby-boom population ages, the overall need for healthcare services is expected to increase. specialized nurse aides will be needed in residential care facilities, hospitals, and in home health environments to care for geriatric patients.

The Nursing Assistant-to-Home Health Aide program is designed to prepare students for work in caring for individual within the confinement of their home.

Certified Nursing Assistant to Home Health Aide

This 67-hour program is taught with a combination of lecture, hands-on practical lab exercises, and real-world clinical experience conducted off-campus at an actual patient home site.

A Home Health Aide must be able to understand patients, understand directions, make them clearly understood, and be able to cope with physically demanding and stressful situations. The program places a high emphasis on learning excellent communications skills and the Art of Caregiving to provide compassionate care for people in the health care system; share many common tasks – both care for patients, with a focus on the patients’ daily living needs, and work under the supervision of physicians or nurses. Through lecture, DVDs, role-playing, and laboratory practice, students learn procedural skills such as vital signs, bathing, dressing, and positioning. The classroom is equipped with hospital beds and medical equipment to practice skills prior to clinical rotation.

Required Attendance

In order to be effectively and adequately evaluated and to meet state requirement, students must be present for all required clinical performance hours and theory class.

BRAMSTEIN SCHOOL OF APPLIED STUDIES’ Certified Nursing Assistant to Home Health Aide Assistant Certificate Program is approved by the New York State Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision and our curriculum exceeds BPSS requirements. Employment may be contingent upon successful certification and will make you as an individual more competitive in the job market.

Nursing Assistant Exam Review & Prep (Refresher)

This course is a review of the Nursing Assistant course. It is for those who have completed an approved-training program that lapsed for 2-years and are listed on the New York State Nurse Aide Registry, but have not worked in a New York State nursing homes for at least 7 hours in the past 12 months; those who have not taken the exam certification; or individuals who have taken and failed the NYS Prometric Certification; or out-of-state certified nurse aide.

Upon completion, student can retake the Prometric Nurse Aide exam skills and written certification exam.

Central Sterile Processing Technician

The Central Sterile Processing Technician Certificate 780-hour program will prepare you to work on a team that maintains sterilization of all instrumentation and equipment – an essential part to uphold patient safety. Skills covered include how to decontaminate, prepare and sterilize instrument trays for surgical procedures, disinfect patient care equipment and the various methods of inventory control storage and distribution of sterile supplies and equipment.

Upon successful completion, you can sit for the EXAM to become a Certified Sterile Technician CSPT offered by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA). Students completing this program could easily articulate into Surgical Technology. This program requires a 400-hour externship.