2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

HN43 Nursing Fundamentals and Practicum

Course Type: Adapted

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Understand the role, function, legal and ethical responsibilities of the nurse aide within the healthcare system.	12%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
1.01	Understand healthcare facilities and organization structure.	4%	-	-
1.02	Understand nurse aide range of function as a member of the healthcare team.	4%	-	-
1.03	Understand residents' rights, advocacy and grievance procedures.	4%	-	-
2.00	Understand communication skills, interpersonal skills, and physical care skills that promote mental health and meet social and special needs of residents in long term care.	19%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
2.01	Understand communication and interpersonal skills needed to provide resident care and relate to team members.	5%	-	-
2.02	Understand nurse aide observations, recording and reporting.	4%	-	-
2.03	Understand basic human needs and nurse aide guidelines in meeting those needs.	5%	-	-
2.04	Understand the dying process and needs of the resident nearing the end of life.	5%	-	-
3.00	Understand infection control, safety and emergency skills within the nurse aide range of function.	12%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
3.01	Understand infection control within nurse aide range of function.	6%	-	-
3.02	Understand safety and emergency care skills within nurse aide range of function.	6%	-	-
4.00	Understand nurse aide skills related to residents' vital functions and movement.	19%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
4.01	Understand vital signs, height and weight measurement skills.	10%	-	-
4.02	Understand the nurse aide's range of function inrehabilitative/restorative and maintenance care	9%	-	-
5.00	Understand nurse aide skills related to residents' hygiene, grooming, skin integrity, and living environment needs.	20%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
5.01	Understand nurse aide skills needed for residents' hygiene and grooming.	7%	-	-
5.02	Understand nurse aide skills needed to promote skin integrity.	7%	-	-
5.03	Understand the nurse aide role in creating a safe and clean environment that fosters resident independence, contentment and self-esteem.	6%	-	-
6.00	Understand nurse aide skills needed to provide for residents' nutrition, hydration, and elimination needs.	18%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	-
6.01	Understand nurse aide skills needed to meet the nutritional and hydration needs of residents.	9%	-	-
6.02	Understand nurse aide skills needed to care for residents' elimination and urination needs	9%	-	-
7.00	Apply nurse aide skills by providing hands on resident care during a 40 hour (minimum) clinical experience in an approved long term care facility.	-	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	-