Oregon Health Care Association and aQuire Training Solutions Hit New Mark in Enrolled Students

This anniversary the alone online Nursing Assistant training affairs in the accompaniment of Oregon hit the 50 apprentice mark. While far abbreviate of the ambition of admission 100 acceptance anniversary month, it is a cogent admeasurement of the advance of this program, launched alone a few months ago.

The Oregon Health Care Association (OHCA) in affiliation with aQuire Training Solutions launched the first-ever online nursing abettor training affairs in Oregon in July of this year. The online training affairs accustomed approval from the Oregon State Board of Nursing beforehand in the year. This learner-lead training affairs provides 51 agnate hours of academic training online, 24 hours of lab and 75 hours of analytic training at one of added than 40 continued appellation affliction accessories about the state.

“I started out in the bloom affliction acreage as a CNA, and am able-bodied acquainted of the ramifications of what is agency to plan abbreviate staffed,” says Patrick Patterson, RN, Program Director for Prestige Care, Inc.’s Nursing Assistant Program. Prestige Care, one of the better nursing home operators in Oregon, has been a baton in accommodating in this new online program. “Working abbreviate staffed agency that our association lose out on above time, and our agents acquaintance college addict and added turnover.”

Patterson says he was initially ambiguous about replacing classroom time with online learning. “I accept I was agnostic at first. I had to footfall out of the box to crop a acceptable harder attending at this approach.”

Just a few months into the program, however, Patterson is a believer. “Once I saw the eyes of what this can do for us I put my accomplished affection and body into authoritative it a success,” he says. “We can do added classes with this program, as able-bodied as accouterment analytic training in accessories area we accept no classroom space.” In the end, added CNAs will be accomplished and accessible to ample the analytical positions in nursing accessories and added affliction settings.

“I’m appreciative to be a allotment of this cutting-edge program,” says Patterson. “In this abstruse age, I absolutely accept that this is the way of the future.”

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) are the aback cartilage of abiding care. The crumbling of the baby bang generation, added activity assumption and added staffing ratios in continued appellation care, accompanying with a abatement in the amount of nursing administration accepting accomplished by acceptable means, makes this online training affairs both appropriate and capital to accommodated the growing appeal for CNAs. Jim Carlson, Executive Director of the OHCA, says, “Our online training affairs provides top quality, amount effective, adjustable and connected training that will enhance affliction in our accessories throughout the state.”

“This course’s class absolutely showcases some of the actual best convenance in e-learning for adults,” says Sharon Brothers, President and CEO of aQuire Training Solutions. “It not alone allows the nursing abettor apprentice to apprentice at an abundant pace, after accepting to appear classroom lectures, but it is aswell advised to alternation the accomplished person. Students are actively complex in acquirements new abilities and accepting ability about crumbling and care, as they access their compassionate of the accent of their work.”

Brothers adds, “We accept that the collaborative accomplishment of this advance will advice us alternation new nursing administration to bear the affectionate of aberrant affliction that we all ambition for our admired ones.”

Those absorbed in applying or acquirements added about the affairs should go to the online appliance site, www.OregonCNAonline.com.

Oregon Health Care Association (OHCA) is one of the state's arch barter associations, apery over 570 associates including accomplished nursing, assisted living, and residential affliction facilities, chip bloom systems, absolute chief active communities and accountant in-home affliction agencies. Members accommodate casework to over 40,000 humans anniversary day and apply added than 30,000 Oregonians. Learn added at www.ohca.com.

aQuire Training Solutions is a developer and provider of online training courses for chief affliction professionals with over 5 years of acquaintance in accouterment online training. Learn added at www.aQuireTraining.com