Description: Nurses¿would you like an opportunity to use your teaching skills to train new STNA students? Are you seeking different opportunities in the nursing field? Our 32-hour Train-the- Trainer program is designed to prepare nurses to teach and/or coordinate an ODH state approved nurse assistant training competency and evaluation program (NATCEP). Two opportunities are offered; certification as either a Primary Instructor (PI) or a Program Coordinator (PC).
Prerequisites: RN or LPN* with a current active Ohio license
and minimum two years experience in nursing
chronic care
Topics Covered: • Basic TCEP requirements.
• Program development.
• Course material design.
• Organizing and individualizing a TCEP.
• Instructional techniques.
• Ohio Administrative Code Rules.
Learning Outcomes: • Describe benefits of TTT program.
• Identify qualifications of the PC, PI, and guest lecturers.
• Demonstrate understanding of the typical nurse aide's level of training ability and major job duties.
• Identify effects of stress on learning, testing, and techniques that can be used to manage stress.
• Apply training strategies and techniques to work with diverse students.
• Describe the differences between non-facility and facility based TCEP.
• Identify ways to prepare trainees for the competency evaluation through objective and skills tests.
• Describe how to assess the training environment and utilize techniques to enhance the training experience.
• Organize, develop, and individualize a TCEP topic area.
• Describe TCE Program standards.
• Instruct how to design a TCE Program.
• Define the components of clinical teaching.
• Describe ways to maintain and organize TCE Program, content and resources.
• Describe the use, considerations, advantages, and limitations of various teaching styles.
• Define and describe the function of skills testing.
• Identify who may administer a skills test.
• Describe the steps used to decide which skills to test.
• Describe general principles of the program evaluation.
• Provide examples of formative and summative evaluation.
• Identify types of evaluation instruments.
• Describe basic structure and basic training approach in presenting classroom subject matter.
• Analyze and recount state law and federal regulations.
Comments: Qualifications:
A primary instructor must:
1. Be an RN or LPN* with a current active Ohio license.
2. Have a minimum of two years experience in nursing chronic care.
A program coordinator must:
1. Be an RN with a current active Ohio license.
2. Have a minimum of two years experience in nursing chronic care.
3. Have one of those years in long term care.
*LPN can only teach in a LTCF