IN-SERVICE/CEU  CLASS  FOR  CNA/CHHA TO RENEW THEIR LICENSES 
Kash Career College has been approved as a provider of Continuing Education Units for CNA/CHHA in California. 
There is a mandatory requirement that 48 hours of in-service classes or CEU for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), and 24 hour for Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) be attained every two years in order to maintain and renew a license.   

THE FOLLOWING CEU CLASSES ARE OFFERED 

Basic Math (25 CEU hours)
This course is a remedial Math class designed for students who are having problems with mathematics.
The following topics will be discussed.
  • Number Sense 
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Fractions
  • Decimals
  • Percents
  • Conversions
  • Proper and Improper Fractions 
  • Mixed Numbers 
  • Multiples 
  • Adding and Subtracting Fractions 
  • Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers 
  • Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers 
  • Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers 
  • Simplifying Fractions and Complex Fractions 
  • Changing Fractions to Decimals 
  •  Powers and Exponents
  • Square Roots and Cube Roots 
  • Pre-Algebra

Cost: $75.00

Next class starts: February 13, 2012 and ends February 17, 2012

Schedule
Morning: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Evening: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Day schedule: Monday through Friday
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HOSPICE (16  CEU hours)
​Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual or social in nature. Those who are terminally ill include the sick, wounded, or dying patients. Hospice patients are treated in such institutions as hospitals, nursing homes, and also in their own homes if they would rather die there. 

Goal:  To make healthcare professionals feel more comfortable with DEATH; and accepting that each experiences will vary.

Next class starts: March 3, 2012 and ends March 4, 2012.

Cost:  $200.00
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Medical Terminology (36 CEU hours)
This course provides an introduction to medical language for healthcare workers.  It will teach the student how to break down medical terms into smaller word parts so that the meanings of the medical terms are easier to understand.  Medical words are introduced in the context of human anatomy, physiology, and pathology.

Next class starts: February 2012
Cost:  $300.00
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Nutrition (36 CEU hours)
This course covers the significance and nature of food as related to technological, psychological, and socioeconomic influences; values, standards, goals, and provisions for nutrition and food decisions and their relationship to health; nutrition as the provision to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life and the impact of public policy on food and nutrition. Cross cultural/global concerns and career in nutrition management will also be emphasized.

Next class starts: February 2012 
Cost:  $300.00
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Human Growth & Development (36 CEU hours)
This course will provide the student with an understanding of human development over the life-span from conception to death. The student will learn about the three major developmental stages which include child, adolescent and adult development. In these developmental stages, the student will learn perspectives on development for each age group; physical development; cognitive development; emotional development; social development; and the final stage of adult development, death.

Next class starts: February 2012
Cost:  $300.00
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DEMENTIA (8  CEU hours)
1. Introduction to dementia
2. The most common form of dementing illness:  Alzheimer's disease
3. Providing for optimal nutrition
4. Caring for person's with dementia
5. Working with difficult residents
6. Personality and behavior problems
7. Using non verbal communication to comfort confused or demented residents
8. Fall risk and Alzheimer's disease

Next class starts: March 11, 2012

Cost:  $100.00
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DIABETES (8 CEU hours)
1. Introduction: Diabetes and the older adult
2. Diabetes & damage to major body organs
3. The  role of insulin
4. The difference between NIDDM and IDDM
5. Hypo & Hyperglycemia
6. 3 Chronic complications in diabetes
7. Foot problems & foot care
8. Diabetic management & treatment

Next class starts: March 10, 2012
Cost:  $100.00
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Four Hours In-service CEU Topics

1) Disaster Preparedness.
2) Using Non-verbal Communication to comfort confused or demented residents.
3) Left or right CVA? What is the difference?
4) Death with care and dignity.
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5) Fire safety and rescuing residents who are not able to walk.
6) Preventing pressure sores.
7) AD: providing for optional nutrition
8) Fire safety.
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9) Caring for residents with dementia.
10) Tuberculosis awareness.
11) End of life ethics.
12) What is a CVA?
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13) Preventing dehydration.
14) Working with difficult residents.
15) AD: The need for caring.
16) AD: Safety and accident prevention.
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17) Basic first aid.
18) Preventing and controlling the spread of infection.
19) Malnutrition and seniors.
20) Incontinence.
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21) Managing conflict between residents.
22) Pressure ulcer risks.
23) The ABC’s of a tracheostomy.
24) Personality and behavior problems.
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25) Malnutrition and weight.
26) What you should know about the flu.
27) What is a survey?
28) Dysptagia and the elderly.
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29) The normal aging process.
30) Reporting missing persons.
31) Stress in long term care.
32) Facing up to the problem of abuse.
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33) Death with care and dignity.
34) Blood borne pathogens and standard precautions.
35) Care of the skin.
36) Diabetes and foot care.
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37) Grief: Understanding the stages of grief.                  
38) Lifting and transfer.                                                   
39) Mental illness.                                                           
40) Oxygen therapy.  
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41) Range of motion and positioning.                             
42) Seizures.
43) Understanding pain.
44) Mouth care.
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45) Measuring vital signs.
46) Providing personal care.
47) Respiratory disorders.
48) Incontinence and constipation.
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NCLEX-PN Examination Review
Prepare to successfully pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses.
Next class starts: February 2012

Seats are limited and the cost is $400.00. Call today. 
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