Cloudcroft Students Achieve Certification
Left to right: ENMU-Ruidoso CNA Students Kaylee Pinon, Tylan Bragg, Adrianna Ortega, CNA Instructor Dorothy Roberts, Cassia Moore, CNA Facilitator Maria Crump, with ENMU-Ruidoso CNA Students Aurora Trejo, Rhiannon Eldridge, Hannah Ferdetta, Jade Merrill, Carolina Loper-Flores, all of Cloudcroft. Not pictured is Sage Greenwood.
ENMU-Ruidoso recognized 10 Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) students in a pinning ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 14.
ENMU-Ruidoso Career & Technical Education Director Gray Mowery gave opening remarks and recognized the CNA Instructors Dorothy Roberts and Jean Jewell. CNA Facilitator Maria Crump welcomed the students and audience. Roberts gave a blessing and presented students for pinning.
Pinning a graduating CNA student symbolizes their initiation into the nursing profession and marks the completion of the Nursing Assistant Certificate Occupational Training.
The CNA graduates from Cloudcroft include: Tylan Bragg, Rhiannon Eldridge, Hannah Ferdetta, Sage Greenwood, Carolina Loper-Flores, Jade Merrill, Cassia Moore, Adrianna Ortega, Kaylee Pinon, and Aurora Trejo.
The Nursing Assistant Certificate of Occupational Training is a five-credit-hour program that includes a basic life support (CPR) class, a nursing assistant theory class, and a lab. The program is designed to prepare students to pass the state nurse assistant certification examination. The CNA Program educates students in assessing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs and concerns of residents. Students receive training and practice all state-required resident care skills in the classroom lab and in several community settings. Students learn about resident rights and the laws that protect them. Understanding of the role of the nurse assistant within the legal scope of practice is an expected outcome of this program.
Upon program completion students will be able to care for people who are ill or have impaired self-care capabilities; have the necessary knowledge of body system functions including normal ranges for vital signs so that they are able to assess and report patients/residents status to nursing staff; provide basic patient care such as feeding, bathing, range of motion exercises, transfer patients, change linens, mouth and dental care and repositioning; and provide all indirect care as required by state guidelines including patient safety, patient rights and preferences, infection control and patient/resident comfort.
To learn more about ENMU-Ruidoso’s pre-nursing and nursing assistant programs, visit the website at https://ruidoso.enmu.edu/academics/associate/pre-nursing-student-nurse-assistant/, or call the College at 575-315-1120.
