Description:
Next Generation Nursing Assistant – Train, Test, Work
(Hybrid D2L-EGF Campus-Crookston Clinical)
Your healthcare career starts here! This Nursing Assistant course is approved by the Minnesota Department of Health. Learn basic nursing skills including how to take vital signs, provide personal cares, and mobility assistance. Become prepared to work in nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home care agencies. Be guided by a team of registered nurses who care about your success!
This hybrid course includes an online D2L component, required in-person East Grand Forks lab sessions, and in-person Crookston clinical sessions. Please ensure that your schedule allows and you have adequate transportation for each in-person session. These are mandatory dates and times for the course hour requirements. Access to the internet (Chrome browser, Zoom app) and a computer is required.
Students who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate of completion and be eligible to take the Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation to be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry. The cost of a single Knowledge test and a single Skills test is included in this class. The clinical sessions and skills test require wearing scrubs. One set of scrubs (top and bottom) is included with this class. Please enter your preferred size when registering.
Space is limited and the course will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Candidates interested in this course, please click Add to Cart and check out. Your registration will be placed in an approval queue and college staff will reach out to you if there are still openings.
Student Enrollment Options
This course is included in the Next Generation Nursing Assistant – Train, Test, Work initiative. For accepted candidates, this Next Generation Nursing Assistant – Train, Test, Work course, and registry testing, are available tuition-free thanks to State of Minnesota funding to help with the nursing assistant workforce shortage. Participants are required to work as a nursing assistant after training completion.
Candidates will be contacted prior to class start by a member of the Minnesota State - Distance Minnesota Team to verify training eligibility and discuss class and employment expectations. Please understand that this is a commitment to not only train and pass the test, but also to work in the field as a nursing assistant.
Candidates must be 16 years of age or older as of April 10, 2024, and be eligible to work in the United States to participate in this course. Candidates must pass a Minnesota DHS background study, including fingerprinting, and health screening for clinical session; the costs are included in this class.
Individuals currently employed in long-term care, individuals not planning on working as a nursing assistant, or those needing to take a course only to fulfill an educational pre-requisite will be directed to other training options.
Bring to Class:
Class Requirements:
Attendance is mandatory for all in-person class hours and self-paced online content hours. Access to the internet (Chrome browser, Zoom app) and a computer is required.
The orientation, employer engagements, lab and course, with the exception of clinical sessions, begin April 10, 2024, continuing through April 29,2024, held at:
Classroom/Lab Location
Northland Community & Technical College – East Grand Forks Campus
2022 Central Ave NE
East Grand Forks, MN 56721
Please park in the north lot to enter at door E
Classroom 346, Lab 416
EGF Campus Location
The online course content is accessed by Minnesota State’s Brightspace Continuing Education and Customized Training (CE/CT) D2L
https://cect.learn.minnstate.edu/d2l/login
- Candidates will use their existing StarID to log into D2L. If candidates have not been a student at any Minnesota State Institution since May 2013, a StarID can be activated after registration. Verify if you have an existing StarID at starid.minnstate.edu.
- Online course content will be available April 10, 2024. You are welcome to begin working on the course content at any time after the orientation session.
- 22 course hours are dedicated to the online course content.
Clinical sessions will be held May 6, 7, and 8 at:
Clinical Location
Benedictine Living Community – Crookston
516 Walsh St
Crookston, MN 56716
Requirements with cost included by State of Minnesota funding:
- Scrubs (top and bottom)
- Documentation of Tuberculosis Screening (Mantoux or TB blood test)
- Must pass fingerprinting/Minnesota DHS background study
Location Map
Required In-person Orientation/Classroom Session (identification required)
- Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Class starting immediately after.
- Bring your Chrome-enabled device to access the online course content.
- Bring your government issued photo ID and social security card to complete your testing registration.
- Candidates will sign Release of Information form.
- Candidates must be 16 or older as of April 10, 2024 to attend the course. If you are under 18, parent or guardian must come with you to orientation to sign the required Release of Information form.
Required In-Person Classroom with Lab Sessions
- Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Thursday, April 11 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Monday, April 15 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Tuesday, April 16 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Wednesday, April 17 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Monday, April 22 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Tuesday, April 23 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Wednesday, April 24 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Monday, April 29 | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Tuesday, April 30 | | 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Wednesday, May 1 | 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm (Lab Supervised Practical Training)
Classroom/Lab Location
Northland Community & Technical College – East Grand Forks Campus
2022 Central Ave NE
East Grand Forks, MN 56721
Please park in the north lot to enter at door E
Classroom 346, Lab 416
EGF Campus Location
Required Employer Engagement Sessions
- Held during breaks at the In-Person Sessions listed above and below
Required In-Person Clinical Sessions
- Monday, May 6 | 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Tuesday, May 7 | 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Wednesday, May 8 | 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm
- Scrubs required, included in this class
- Documentation of Tuberculosis Screening (Mantoux or TB blood test)
- Must pass fingerprinting/Minnesota DHS background study, cost included in this class
Clinical Location
Benedictine Living Community – Crookston
516 Walsh St
Crookston, MN 56716
Location Map
Testing Dates
- Test events will be scheduled for the week of May 13th.
- Candidates must the pass the Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation to be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.
- This evaluation has two parts, a Knowledge test and a Skills test.
- Logon/Arrive 20 to 30 minutes prior to test start time with your government-issued photo ID.
- Candidates will be assigned to one online Knowledge test.
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- Two web-enabled devices are required to run Zoom and Chrome.
- Candidates have a maximum of two (2) hours to answer seventy (70) multiple-choice questions in English.
- An oral/audio test option is also available, when selected in the candidates TMU profile prior to testing.
- Candidates will be assigned to one in-person Skills test.
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- Candidates will demonstrate up to four (4) randomly selected skill tasks for an RN Test Observer.
- Candidates have a maximum of thirty (30) minutes to complete tasks with a live actor or manikin, as specified by the skill.
- Scrubs are required to be admitted to testing, included in this class.
- Candidates must wear close-toed shoes and pull back long hair.
- Tests can be taken in any order.
- Retesting after a failed result will be available.
- For further testing information, please review the D&S Headmaster Minnesota page, including the current Minnesota Candidate Handbook.
Testing Location and Instructions
Knowledge tests are completed online, do not come to campus for this test.
Skills tests are completed in-person at:
Northland Community & Technical College – East Grand Forks Campus.
2022 Central Ave NE
East Grand Forks, MN 56721
Please park in the north lot to enter at door E
Room 346
EGF Campus Location
Cancelation Policy
Attendance is mandatory for all online and in-person class hours.
To cancel or reschedule, Northland WDS must be notified seven (7) business days before the scheduled class orientation date.
Refunds will not be issued after that date.
Refunds will not be issued for missed class dates.
Call 218-683-8649 or email wds@northlandcollege.edu to cancel registration.
Instructors:
Karen Znajda
Susan Brummund
Registration Cutoff Date:
Dates & Times:
4/10/2024 4:00PM - 8:15PM
4/11/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/15/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/16/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/17/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/22/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/23/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/24/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/29/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
4/30/2024 5:00PM - 8:15PM
5/13/2024 5:00PM - 7:00PM
5/14/2024 5:00PM - 7:00PM
