Twenty Students Ready to Begin Careers in Medical Fields
ENMU-Ruidoso Recognizes CNA & Phlebotomy Students at Pinning Ceremony
ENMU-Ruidoso Branch Community College recognized 13 Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) students and seven Phlebotomy students Saturday, May 9.
ENMU-Ruidoso Vice President Coda Omness welcomed the audience. Career & Technical Education Director Gray Mowery gave opening remarks and introduced the instructors. CNA Instructors Jean Jewell and Dorothy Roberts, who gave a blessing and presented students for pinning.
Pinning a graduating CNA or Phlebotomy student symbolizes their initiation into the nursing or phlebotomy profession and marks the completion of the Nursing Assistant Certificate and the Phlebotomy of Occupational Training Certificate.
Back row left to right: CNA Instructor Jean Jewell, CNA Students Joleen Geronimo, Ciarra Blake, Julianna Kennedy, Chelsi Cheaney, Janie Maxwell. Seated: Molly Pena, LiErin Maypole, Madison Lutterman, Makenzie Wilson, and CNA Instructor Dorothy Roberts.
The CNA graduates and their hometowns include:
Spring Semester, first eight weeks
Glencoe: LiErin Maypole
Mescalero: Molly Pena
Ruidoso: James Adam, Makenzie Wilson, Madison Lutterman
Ruidoso Downs: Janie Maxwell, Ennydia Nevarez
Spring Semester, second eight-weeks
Mescalero: Joleen Geronimo
Ruidoso: Chelsi Cheaney, Ciarra Blake
Ruidoso Downs: Kalyn Saiz
San Patricio: Julianna Kennedy, Shaun Montoya
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 pass 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.
Pinning a graduating phlebotomy student symbolizes their initiation into the phlebotomy profession and marks the completion of their occupational lab training.
Left to right: Domonique Parker, Falon Sparks, Millette Saenz, April Desiderio, and Phlebotomy Instructor Bobbie Owen-Simonson.
The Phlebotomy students and their hometowns include:
The Spring Semester, second eight weeks
Capitan: Caitlin Byrd, Falon Sparks, Anita Trujillo,
Mescalero: April Desiderio, Millette Saenz, Taylor Willis
Santa Teresa: Domonique Parker
The certificate of occupational training in phlebotomy consists of three portions: phlebotomy theory, skills lab, and clinical experience. A student must pass all three portions in order to receive a certificate from ENMU-Ruidoso. In Phlebotomy Theory, students learn blood collection theory based upon national standards for phlebotomy procedures. An introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the main body systems, including the tests, terminology, and pathological conditions associated with these systems is included along with an introduction to laboratory clerical duties. Students apply theory and practice the procedures and techniques for collecting blood and other specimens in the skills labs. Students who pass both theory and lab have the opportunity to practice skills and to apply the theory learned in class during a supervised clinical experience in participating hospitals and clinics.
Upon completion of the program, students are eligible to take the national certification exam for phlebotomists (American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Phlebotomy Technician (PBT) Board of Certification).
This program requires 100 clinical hours and 100 sticks and is offered in part by Tri Core Labs and Lincoln County Medical Center.
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. Registration is currently underway for the Summer Session that begins June 1 and Fall Semester that begins Aug. 18.
