2024-2025 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.

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.

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  • Standard/Obj Number: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
  • Standard/Objective: 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 NumberStandard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT Designation
1.00Understand hand hygiene, vital signs, body measurements, intake, and output skills.11%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.01Understand the importance of hand hygiene.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.02Understand vital signs and body measurements and the implications of the nurse aide role.4%B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
1.03Understand the responsibility of the nurse aide in measuring intake and output.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.00Understand the nurse aide's legal and ethical responsibility as a member of the healthcare team.8%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.01Understand specific responsibilities and essential functions of the nurse aide in the healthcare setting.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.02Understand resident rights, advocacy, and grievance procedures.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.00Understand the importance of infection prevention in the nurse aide role.11%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.01Understand the chain of infection.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.02Understand the importance of infection prevention using standard precautions.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.03Understand bloodborne pathogens and the nurse aide role.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.00Understand nurse aide role in practicing safety precautions and responding to emergency situations.6%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.01Understand environmental safety precautions, accident prevention, and body mechanics for minimizing injury.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.02Understand proper response to medical and facility emergencies.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.00Understand how effective communication facilitates the development of interpersonal relationships needed for resident care.6%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.01Understand the role of effective communication in fostering interpersonal relationships essential for resident care and working with team members.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.02Understand the importance of observation, recording, and reporting in the nurse aide role.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.00Understand effects of the aging process as it relates to the nurse aide role.11%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.01Understand cognitive, psychological, and physical changes due to aging.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.02Understand the structure and function of the cell system.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.03Understand age-related pain management.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
7.00Understand resident personal care, skin integrity, restorative, and rehabilitation care in the nurse aide role.11%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
7.01Understand the resident personal care needs.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
7.02Understand how to promote skin integrity.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
7.03Understand restorative and rehabilitation care.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
8.00Understand resident nutrition, hydration, and elimination needs in the nurse aide role.12%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
8.01Understand resident nutritional and hydration needs.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
8.02Understand responsibilities related to dysphagia, aspiration prevention and dehydration.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
8.03Understand the digestive system common diseases and disorders.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
8.04Understand the urinary system common diseases and disorders.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
9.00Understand the nurse aide role in meeting resident needs and the importance of family support.9%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
9.01Understand the resident need for family and support systems.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
9.02Understand the nurse aide's role in caring for a resident with mental health illness.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
9.03Understand the dying process and end-of- life.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
10.00Apply nurse aide skills by providing hands-on resident care during a 40-hour (minimum) clinical experience in an approved facility.15%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply