Vice President of Student Learning and Success Coda Omness welcomed the audience and gave opening remarks. CNA Instructor Dorothy Roberts presented the blessing and recognized the students, and the class was presented for pinning. Pinning a graduating CNA student symbolizes their initiation into the nursing profession and marks the completion of their Nursing Assistant Certificate of Occupational Training.
The graduates and their hometown include:
- Alto: Darian Milam
- Capitan: Anita Trujillo and Yara Gwyn
- Mescalero: Dalaney Reyes, Ashlee Reynolds and Selea Rocha
- Roswell: Nicole Krzeboit, Crimson O’Mara and Dannay Barraza
- Ruidoso: Ingrid Del Muro Herrera, Jatonna Holmes and Harley Widener
- Tularosa: Christian Kazhe
Nursing Assistant Certificate of Occupational Training is a five-credit hour program that includes a basic life support (CPR) class, the nursing assistant theory class and lab. The program is designed to prepare students to successfully sit for the state nurse assistant certification examination. The CNA Program educates students in physical, emotional, and spiritual assessment of residents’ needs and concerns. Students receive training and practice in all state required resident care skills in the classroom lab as well as in several community settings. Students learn resident rights as well as the laws that protect those rights. 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.
