About
The Nursing Assistant Program at School for Allied Health Professionals in Arlington, Texas, prepares students to provide basic care for convalescing residents in long-term care facilities. Training covers basic nursing skills, restorative services, mental health and social service needs, personal care, resident rights, first aid, CPR, vital signs, nutrition, and infection control, and leads to a certificate of completion of the nursing assistant course. The program uses Monday-through-Thursday classroom and laboratory instruction, with lecture, demonstrations, written tests, and clinical practice in a lab setting; each class lasts five hours. Admission requires high school graduation or a high school equivalency certificate, an age of at least 17, and a passing score of 12 on the Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam entrance assessment.
Organization
School for Allied Health Professionals
School For Allied Health Professionals is a health professions school in Arlington, Texas. It trains people for work as Medical Assistants, Medical Insurance and Coding Specialists, Nursing Assistants, and Phlebotomy Technicians. The school provides online and in-person courses, with program lengths ranging from seven weeks to seven months. Its Arlington campus includes multiple labs where students receive hands-on experience in skills such as venipuncture, injections, urinalysis, electrocardiography, vital-sign measurement, basic nursing services, and health-information processing. Training also addresses personal care, mental health, social-service needs, and residents’ rights for Nursing Assistant students. The school describes its educational approach as emphasizing individual attention through small class sizes. Students may complete training before seeking positions or joining an externship.